An Open-Source Benchmark and Baseline for Multi-temporal Referring Segmentation
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong visual understanding and language-guided grounding abilities, yet their capacity for multi-temporal visual reasoning remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{Multi-temporal Referring Segmentation (MTRS)}, a new task that aims to segment language-described temporal changes from multi-temporal images. MTRS extends conventional referring segmentation and change detection by jointly requiring temporal correspondence reasoning, language grounding, and pixel-level mask prediction. We propose \textbf{CRAFT-Agent}, an automated data construction pipeline with human auditing, and build \textbf{MTRefSeg-21K}, the first MTRS benchmark, containing 21K high-quality multi-temporal image-text-mask triplets across diverse scenes, viewpoints, and domains. Benchmarking a broad set of VLM- and LVLM-based models reveals that direct inference performs poorly, while task-specific fine-tuning remains limited. To address this, we propose \textbf{MTRefSeg-R1}, a change-aware LVLM framework trained with a two-stage strategy. It first learns general temporal-change perception from 20K vision-only bi-temporal samples, and is then fine-tuned on MTRefSeg-21K for fine-grained language-guided temporal localization. MTRefSeg-R1 explicitly models cross-temporal visual differences, aligns language instructions with temporal variations, and predicts referred change masks. Extensive experiments show that MTRefSeg-R1 achieves strong and often superior performance compared with existing LVLM baselines, demonstrating the challenge and potential of MTRS.
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