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New WeakMCN Network Improves Referring Expression Tasks

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Researchers have developed WeakMCN, a novel multi-task collaborative network designed to improve weakly supervised referring expression comprehension and segmentation. This dual-branch architecture jointly learns both tasks, with the comprehension branch acting as a teacher for the segmentation branch. The network incorporates Dynamic Visual Feature Enhancement to adapt visual knowledge and a Collaborative Consistency Module to promote cross-task alignment. Experiments on benchmarks like RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, and RefCOCOg show that WeakMCN outperforms existing single-task methods. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel architecture for improved object grounding in images using text descriptions.

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New WeakMCN Network Improves Referring Expression Tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Silin Cheng, Yang Liu, Xinwei He, Sebastien Ourselin, Lei Tan, Gen Luo ·

    WeakMCN: Multi-task Collaborative Network for Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Comprehension and Segmentation

    arXiv:2505.18686v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Weakly supervised referring expression comprehension(WREC) and segmentation(WRES) aim to learn object grounding based on a given expression using weak supervision signals like image-text pairs. While these tasks have traditional…

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