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Quanwei Liu, Tao Huang, Jiaqi Yang, Wei Xiang
Rapid advancements in vision-language models have propelled Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) to the forefront of Earth observation. However, practical deployments suffer severe performance degradation under a coupled dual-drift paradigm: visual domain drift from cross-spatial-resolution mismatches and spectral variations, alongside textual logic drift from unconstrained, variable user-input granularities. To mitigate these bottlenecks, this paper establishes the first cross-domain RRSIS benchmark, designated as the Vaihingen-Potsdam Referring (VPRef) dataset, comprising 46,972 language-image-annotation triplets organized into a three-tier linguistic hierarchy. Building upon this benchmark, we develop a tailored parameter-efficient domain adaptation baseline anchored on the Segment Anything Model (SAM3) via Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our framework counteracts visual distribution discrepancies through pseudo-label-driven self-training and addresses textual logic drift via random multi-granularity text prompt mixing. Crucially, the distribution of empirical metrics across ablative variants suggests a potential decoupling between cross-modal semantic robustification and visual domain alignment, demonstrating that linguistic variance drives fine-grained semantic invariance while pseudo-label propagation governs macro-scale spatial grid alignment. Extensive benchmarks demonstrate the proposed framework achieves superior cross-domain segmentation boundaries while modifying merely 1.08\% of the foundational parameter footprint, establishing a robust baseline for future multi-modal remote sensing domain adaptation research. The dataset and code will be available at https://github.com/quanweiliu/VPRef.
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@article{liu2026vpref,
title = {VPRef: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation},
author = {Quanwei Liu and Tao Huang and Jiaqi Yang and Wei Xiang},
year = {2026},
abstract = {Rapid advancements in vision-language models have propelled Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) to the forefront of Earth observation. However, practical deployments suffer severe performance degradation under a coupled dual-drift paradigm: visual domain drift from cross-spatial-resolution mismatches and spectral variations, alongside textual logic drift from unconstrained, variable user-input granularities. To mitigate these bottlenecks, this paper establishes the first cross-do},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16486},
keywords = {cs.CV},
eprint = {2609.16486},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
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