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The development of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) is striving to catch up with the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it faces more challenges to be resolved. Very recent works enable LVLMs to localize object-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhipeng Huang , Zhizheng Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yan Lu , Baining Guo

Vision language models (VLMs) are AI systems paired with both language and vision encoders to process multimodal input. They are capable of performing complex semantic tasks such as automatic captioning, but it remains an open question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tyler Tran , Sangeet Khemlani , J. G. Trafton

We propose a new model for detecting visual relationships, such as "person riding motorcycle" or "bottle on table". This task is an important step towards comprehensive structured image understanding, going beyond detecting individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Alexander Kolesnikov , Alina Kuznetsova , Christoph H. Lampert , Vittorio Ferrari

Many multimodal tasks, such as image captioning and visual question answering, require vision-language models (VLMs) to associate objects with their properties and spatial relations. Yet it remains unclear where and how such associations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kelly Cui , Nikhil Prakash , Ayush Raina , David Bau , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham

Social relationships form the basis of social structure of humans. Developing computational models to understand social relationships from visual data is essential for building intelligent machines that can better interact with humans in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Many applications require an understanding of an image that goes beyond the simple detection and classification of its objects. In particular, a great deal of semantic information is carried in the relationships between objects. We have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Stephan Baier , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Vision-to-language tasks aim to integrate computer vision and natural language processing together, which has attracted the attention of many researchers. For typical approaches, they encode image into feature representations and decode it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Xuelong Li , Aihong Yuan , Xiaoqiang Lu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate in a real-world environment following natural language instructions. From both the textual and visual perspectives, we find that the relationships among the scene, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

Spatial relationships between objects represent key scene information for humans to understand and interact with the world. To study the capability of current computer vision systems to recognize physically grounded spatial relations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Chuan Wen , Dinesh Jayaraman , Yang Gao

Visual language is a system of communication that conveys information through symbols, shapes, and spatial arrangements. Diagrams are a typical example of a visual language depicting complex concepts and their relationships in the form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yifan Hou , Buse Giledereli , Yilei Tu , Mrinmaya Sachan

Visual relation detection methods rely on object information extracted from RGB images such as 2D bounding boxes, feature maps, and predicted class probabilities. We argue that depth maps can additionally provide valuable information on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sahand Sharifzadeh , Sina Moayed Baharlou , Max Berrendorf , Rajat Koner , Volker Tresp

Recognizing spatial relations and reasoning about them is essential in multiple applications including navigation, direction giving and human-computer interaction in general. Spatial relations between objects can either be explicit --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Soham Dan , Hangfeng He , Dan Roth

Despite progress in perceptual tasks such as image classification, computers still perform poorly on cognitive tasks such as image description and question answering. Cognition is core to tasks that involve not just recognizing, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ranjay Krishna , Yuke Zhu , Oliver Groth , Justin Johnson , Kenji Hata , Joshua Kravitz , Stephanie Chen , Yannis Kalantidis , Li-Jia Li , David A. Shamma , Michael S. Bernstein , Fei-Fei Li

The recent developments in deep learning led to the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with computer vision, resulting in powerful integrated Vision and Language Models (VLMs). Despite their remarkable capabilities, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Harshit , Tolga Tasdizen

This paper introduces a novel approach for modeling visual relations between pairs of objects. We call relation a triplet of the form (subject, predicate, object) where the predicate is typically a preposition (eg. 'under', 'in front of')…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Julia Peyre , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

Visually linking matching cues is a crucial ability in daily life, such as identifying the same person in multiple photos based on their cues, even without knowing who they are. Despite the extensive knowledge that vision-language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jianshu Zhang , Dongyu Yao , Renjie Pi , Paul Pu Liang , Yi R. Fung

To understand a prompt, Vision-Language models (VLMs) must perceive the image, comprehend the text, and build associations within and across both modalities. For instance, given an 'image of a red toy car', the model should associate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Darshana Saravanan , Makarand Tapaswi , Vineet Gandhi

Visual Relation Detection (VRD) aims to detect relationships between objects for image understanding. Most existing VRD methods rely on thousands of training samples of each relationship to achieve satisfactory performance. Some recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Tianyu Yu , Yangning Li , Jiaoyan Chen , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Xi Chen , Qingbin Liu , Wenqiang Liu , Dongxiao Huang , Bei Wu , Yexin Wang

In this paper we introduce the problem of Visual Semantic Role Labeling: given an image we want to detect people doing actions and localize the objects of interaction. Classical approaches to action recognition either study the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Saurabh Gupta , Jitendra Malik

Detecting visual relationships, i.e. <Subject, Predicate, Object> triplets, is a challenging Scene Understanding task approached in the past via linguistic priors or spatial information in a single feature branch. We introduce a new deeply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Vassilis Pitsikalis , Petros Koutras , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos