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Fine-grained image-text alignment is a pivotal challenge in multimodal learning, underpinning key applications such as visual question answering, image captioning, and vision-language navigation. Unlike global alignment, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiale Liu , Haoming Zhou , Yishu Liu , Bingzhi Chen , Yuncheng Jiang

Systems that can find correspondences between multiple modalities, such as between speech and images, have great potential to solve different recognition and data analysis tasks in an unsupervised manner. This work studies multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen

Visual grounding has attracted wide attention thanks to its broad application in various visual language tasks. Although visual grounding has made significant research progress, existing methods ignore the promotion effect of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Minghong Xie , Mengzhao Wang , Huafeng Li , Yafei Zhang , Dapeng Tao , Zhengtao Yu

With the aim of promoting and understanding the multilingual version of image search, we leverage visual object detection and propose a model with diverse multi-head attention to learn grounded multilingual multimodal representations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Po-Yao Huang , Xiaojun Chang , Alexander Hauptmann

Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…

Grounding referring expressions aims to locate in an image an object referred to by a natural language expression. The linguistic structure of a referring expression provides a layout of reasoning over the visual contents, and it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sibei Yang , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

We propose a weakly-supervised approach that takes image-sentence pairs as input and learns to visually ground (i.e., localize) arbitrary linguistic phrases, in the form of spatial attention masks. Specifically, the model is trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Fanyi Xiao , Leonid Sigal , Yong Jae Lee

Reducing the representational discrepancy between source and target domains is a key component to maximize the model generalization. In this work, we advocate for leveraging natural language supervision for the domain generalization task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Seonwoo Min , Nokyung Park , Siwon Kim , Seunghyun Park , Jinkyu Kim

3D visual grounding (3DVG), which aims to correlate a natural language description with the target object within a 3D scene, is a significant yet challenging task. Despite recent advancements in this domain, existing approaches commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xinyi Wang , Na Zhao , Zhiyuan Han , Dan Guo , Xun Yang

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Recently proposed fine-grained 3D visual grounding is an essential and challenging task, whose goal is to identify the 3D object referred by a natural language sentence from other distractive objects of the same category. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Dailan He , Yusheng Zhao , Junyu Luo , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Aixi Zhang , Si Liu

Transfer learning aims to reduce the amount of data required to excel at a new task by re-using the knowledge acquired from learning other related tasks. This paper proposes a novel transfer learning scenario, which distills robust phonetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Wei-Ning Hsu , David Harwath , James Glass

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

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

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

The abundance of multimodal data (e.g. social media posts) has inspired interest in cross-modal retrieval methods. Popular approaches rely on a variety of metric learning losses, which prescribe what the proximity of image and text should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

Many vision and language models suffer from poor visual grounding - often falling back on easy-to-learn language priors rather than basing their decisions on visual concepts in the image. In this work, we propose a generic approach called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Stefan Lee , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Shalini Ghosh , Larry Heck , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Image-text matching tasks have recently attracted a lot of attention in the computer vision field. The key point of this cross-domain problem is how to accurately measure the similarity between the visual and the textual contents, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yaxiong Wang , Hao Yang , Xueming Qian , Lin Ma , Jing Lu , Biao Li , Xin Fan

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

Visually grounded speech models learn from images paired with spoken captions. By tagging images with soft text labels using a trained visual classifier with a fixed vocabulary, previous work has shown that it is possible to train a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Kayode Olaleye , Herman Kamper