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Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The spoken language serves as an accessible and efficient interface, enabling non-experts and disabled users to interact with complex assistant robots. However, accurately grounding language utterances gives a significant challenge due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dohyun Kim , Yeseung Kim , Jaehwi Jang , Minjae Song , Woojin Choi , Daehyung Park

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a challenging task that requires an algorithm to segment objects referred by free-form language expressions. Despite significant progress in recent years, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yong Xien Chng , Henry Zheng , Yizeng Han , Xuchong Qiu , Gao Huang

Surface electromyography (sEMG) based gesture recognition offers a natural and intuitive interaction modality for wearable devices. Despite significant advancements in sEMG-based gesture-recognition models, existing methods often suffer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Weiyu Guo , Ying Sun , Yijie Xu , Ziyue Qiao , Yongkui Yang , Hui Xiong

Sentence representation models trained only on language could potentially suffer from the grounding problem. Recent work has shown promising results in improving the qualities of sentence representations by jointly training them with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Kang Min Yoo , Youhyun Shin , Sang-goo Lee

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Referring expressions are commonly used when referring to a specific target in people's daily dialogue. In this paper, we develop a novel task of audio-visual grounding referring expression for robotic manipulation. The robot leverages both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Yefei Wang , Kaili Wang , Yi Wang , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Image segmentation from referring expressions is a joint vision and language modeling task, where the input is an image and a textual expression describing a particular region in the image; and the goal is to localize and segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Subhashini Venugopalan , Trevor Darrell

Scene Graph Generation (SGG) is a task that encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. SGG shows significant promise as a foundational component for downstream tasks, such as reasoning for embodied agents.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maëlic Neau , Paulo E. Santos , Anne-Gwenn Bosser , Cédric Buche , Akihiro Sugimoto

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

Monocular Semantic Scene Completion (MSSC) aims to predict the voxel-wise occupancy and semantic category from a single-view RGB image. Existing methods adopt a single-stage framework that aims to simultaneously achieve visible region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xuzhi Wang , Xinran Wu , Song Wang , Lingdong Kong , Ziping Zhao

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Recent progress in 3D scene understanding has explored visual grounding (3DVG) to localize a target object through a language description. However, existing methods only consider the dependency between the entire sentence and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhihao Yuan , Xu Yan , Zhuo Li , Xuhao Li , Yao Guo , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

We propose an end-to-end approach for phrase grounding in images. Unlike prior methods that typically attempt to ground each phrase independently by building an image-text embedding, our architecture formulates grounding of multiple phrases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Pelin Dogan , Leonid Sigal , Markus Gross

3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-RES) aims to segment 3D objects by correlating referring expressions with point clouds. However, traditional approaches frequently encounter issues like over-segmentation or mis-segmentation, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Changli Wu , Qi Chen , Jiayi Ji , Haowei Wang , Yiwei Ma , You Huang , Gen Luo , Hao Fei , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Natural language spatial video grounding aims to detect the relevant objects in video frames with descriptive sentences as the query. In spite of the great advances, most existing methods rely on dense video frame annotations, which require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengze Li , Tianbao Wang , Haoyu Zhang , Shengyu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jiaxu Miao , Wenqiao Zhang , Wenming Tan , Jin Wang , Peng Wang , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu