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Weakly-supervised grounded image captioning (WSGIC) aims to generate the caption and ground (localize) predicted object words in the input image without using bounding box supervision. Recent two-stage solutions mostly apply a bottom-up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chen Cai , Suchen Wang , Kim-hui Yap , Yi Wang

This paper addresses the problem of 3D referring expression comprehension (REC) in autonomous driving scenario, which aims to ground a natural language to the targeted region in LiDAR point clouds. Previous approaches for REC usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wenhao Cheng , Junbo Yin , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

We propose Reasoning to Ground (R2G), a neural symbolic model that grounds the target objects within 3D scenes in a reasoning manner. In contrast to prior works, R2G explicitly models the 3D scene with a semantic concept-based scene graph;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yixuan Li , Zan Wang , Wei Liang

Current one-stage methods for visual grounding encode the language query as one holistic sentence embedding before fusion with visual feature. Such a formulation does not treat each word of a query sentence on par when modeling language to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Heng Zhao , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yew-Soon Ong

Pixel grounding, encompassing tasks such as Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), has garnered considerable attention due to its immense potential for bridging the gap between vision and language modalities. However, advancements in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rui Hu , Lianghui Zhu , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Referring expression understanding in remote sensing poses unique challenges, as it requires reasoning over complex object-context relationships. While supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on multimodal large language models achieves strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zilun Zhang , Zian Guan , Tiancheng Zhao , Haozhan Shen , Tianyu Li , Yuxiang Cai , Zhonggen Su , Zhaojun Liu , Jianwei Yin , Xiang Li

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

In this paper, we are tackling the weakly-supervised referring expression grounding task, for the localization of a referent object in an image according to a query sentence, where the mapping between image regions and queries are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Mingjie Sun , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim , Si Liu , John Y. Goulermas

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models generate images through next-scale prediction, naturally achieving coarse-to-fine, fast, high-fidelity synthesis mirroring human perception. In practice, this hierarchy can drift at inference time, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Youngwoo Shin , Jiwan Hur , Junmo Kim

Grounding (i.e. localizing) arbitrary, free-form textual phrases in visual content is a challenging problem with many applications for human-computer interaction and image-text reference resolution. Few datasets provide the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anna Rohrbach , Marcus Rohrbach , Ronghang Hu , Trevor Darrell , Bernt Schiele

In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Existing visual grounding benchmarks primarily evaluate alignment between image regions and literal referring expressions, where models can often succeed by matching a prominent named category. We explore a complementary and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruozhen He , Nisarg A. Shah , Qihua Dong , Zilin Xiao , Jaywon Koo , Vicente Ordonez

Most existing 3D referring expression segmentation (3DRES) methods rely on dense, high-quality point clouds, while real-world agents such as robots and mobile phones operate with only a few sparse RGB views and strict latency constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Changli Wu , Haodong Wang , Jiayi Ji , Yutian Yao , Chunsai Du , Jihua Kang , Yanwei Fu , Liujuan Cao

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target object described by a natural language expression. Recent advances in vision-language learning have led to significant performance improvements in REC tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kanoko Goto , Takumi Hirose , Mahiro Ukai , Shuhei Kurita , Nakamasa Inoue

Video grounding aims to localize the temporal segment corresponding to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Almost all existing video grounding methods fall into two frameworks: 1) Top-down model: It predefines a set of segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Meng Cao , Long Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Recent years have seen a growing interest in Scene Graph Generation (SGG), a comprehensive visual scene understanding task that aims to predict entity relationships using a relation encoder-decoder pipeline stacked on top of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Gopika Sudhakaran , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting , Stefan Roth