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Weakly supervised referring expression grounding aims at localizing the referential object in an image according to the linguistic query, where the mapping between the referential object and query is unknown in the training stage. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Dechao Meng , Qingming Huang

We propose an end-to-end approach to the natural language object retrieval task, which localizes an object within an image according to a natural language description, i.e., referring expression. Previous works divide this problem into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Fan Wu , Zhongwen Xu , Yi Yang

3D visual grounding is the ability to localize objects in 3D scenes conditioned by utterances. Most existing methods devote the referring head to localize the referred object directly, causing failure in complex scenarios. In addition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Eslam Abdelrahman , Mohamed Ayman , Mahmoud Ahmed , Habib Slim , Mohamed Elhoseiny

In this paper, we are tackling the proposal-free referring expression grounding task, aiming at localizing the target object according to a query sentence, without relying on off-the-shelf object proposals. Existing proposal-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mingjie Sun , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim

We propose a new spatial memory module and a spatial reasoner for the Visual Grounding (VG) task. The goal of this task is to find a certain object in an image based on a given textual query. Our work focuses on integrating the regions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Thierry Deruyttere , Guillem Collell , Marie-Francine Moens

We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that match the descriptive natural language expression. Previous datasets and methods for classic RES task heavily rely on the prior assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wenxuan Wang , Tongtian Yue , Yisi Zhang , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims at achieving object localization based on natural language descriptions. However, existing REC approaches are constrained by object category descriptions and single-attribute intention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hao Guo , Jianfei Zhu , Wei Fan , Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks in different modalities. However, existing multi-modal models primarily emphasize capturing global information within each modality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zhaowei Li , Qi Xu , Dong Zhang , Hang Song , Yiqing Cai , Qi Qi , Ran Zhou , Junting Pan , Zefeng Li , Van Tu Vu , Zhida Huang , Tao Wang

We propose an approach to referring expression generation (REG) in visually grounded dialogue that is meant to produce referring expressions (REs) that are both discriminative and discourse-appropriate. Our method constitutes a two-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Bram Willemsen , Gabriel Skantze

Referring Expression Generation (REG) aims to generate unambiguous Referring Expressions (REs) for objects in a visual scene, with a dual task of Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) to locate the referred object. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Fulong Ye , Yuxing Long , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Traditional Visual Grounding (VG) predominantly relies on textual descriptions to localize objects, a paradigm that inherently struggles with linguistic ambiguity and often ignores non-verbal deictic cues prevalent in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ling Li , Bowen Liu , Zinuo Zhan , Peng Jie , Jianhui Zhong , Kenglun Chang , Zhidong Deng

Different from Object Detection, Visual Grounding deals with detecting a bounding box for each text-image pair. This one box for each text-image data provides sparse supervision signals. Although previous works achieve impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Gaowen Liu , Mubarak Shah , Yan Yan

Different from universal object detection, referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate specific objects referred to by natural language expressions. The expression provides high-level concepts of relevant visual and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Yongjian Fu , Xi Li

Hypergraphs as an expressive and general structure have attracted considerable attention from various research domains. Most existing hypergraph node representation learning techniques are based on graph neural networks, and thus adopt the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Shilin Qu , Weiqing Wang , Yuan-Fang Li , Xin Zhou , Fajie Yuan

Single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) offers a unique approach to measuring gene expression profiles and spatial cell locations simultaneously. However, most existing ST methods assume that cells in closer spatial proximity exhibit more…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Xiongtao Xiao , Xiaofeng Chen , Feiyan Jiang , Songming Zhang , Wenming Cao , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Zhongshan Li

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize the referent of natural language referring expressions through two core tasks: Referring Expression Comprehension (3DREC) and Segmentation (3DRES). While existing methods achieve high accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wenbin Tan , Jiawen Lin , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yong Xie , Yachao Zhang , Yanyun Qu

The goal of this work is to segment the objects in an image that are referred to by a sequence of linguistic descriptions (referring expressions). We propose a deep neural network with recurrent layers that output a sequence of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alba Herrera-Palacio , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Video grounding aims to localize the corresponding video moment in an untrimmed video given a language query. Existing methods often address this task in an indirect way, by casting it as a proposal-and-match or fusion-and-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Fengyuan Shi , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li