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Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a foundational cross-modal task that evaluates the interplay of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. It serves as an essential testing ground for…

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Grounding free-form textual queries necessitates an understanding of these textual phrases and its relation to the visual cues to reliably reason about the described locations. Spatial attention networks are known to learn this relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amar Shrestha , Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol , Haowen Fang , Qinru Qiu

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

Phrase Grounding aims to detect and localize objects in images that are referred to and are queried by natural language phrases. Phrase grounding finds applications in tasks such as Visual Dialog, Visual Search and Image-text co-reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Rama Kovvuri , Ram Nevatia

Nested named entity recognition (nested NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Various span-based methods have been proposed to detect nested entities with span representations. However, span-based methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shuhui Wu , Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Weiming Lu

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

Attention mechanisms have been boosting the performance of deep learning models on a wide range of applications, ranging from speech understanding to program induction. However, despite experiments from psychology which suggest that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Lukas Hahne , Timo Lüddecke , Florentin Wörgötter , David Kappel

Incorporating knowledge graphs (KGs) as side information in recommendation has recently attracted considerable attention. Despite the success in general recommendation scenarios, prior methods may fall short of performance satisfaction for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xinni Zhang , Yankai Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Qing Liao , Shenglin Zhao , Irwin King

As an important and challenging problem in vision-language tasks, referring expression comprehension (REC) generally requires a large amount of multi-grained information of visual and linguistic modalities to realize accurate reasoning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Peihan Miao , Wei Su , Gaoang Wang , Xuewei Li , Xi Li

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a popular multimodal task that aims to accurately detect target objects within a single image based on a given textual expression. However, due to the limitations of earlier models, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guanghao Jin , Jingpei Wu , Tianpei Guo , Yiyi Niu , Weidong Zhou , Guoyang Liu

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) utilize natural language interactions and dialogue history to infer user preferences and provide accurate recommendations. Due to the limited conversation context and background knowledge, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zhangchi Qiu , Ye Tao , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize specified entities or regions in an image based on natural language descriptions. While existing methods handle single-entity localization, they often ignore complex inter-entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yizhi Hu , Zezhao Tian , Xingqun Qi , Chen Su , Bingkun Yang , Junhui Yin , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Zhenan Sun

Textual information is considered as significant supplement to knowledge representation learning (KRL). There are two main challenges for constructing knowledge representations from plain texts: (1) How to take full advantages of sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Jiawei Wu , Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

While deep learning has been successfully applied to many real-world computer vision tasks, training robust classifiers usually requires a large amount of well-labeled data. However, the annotation is often expensive and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Zhiyu Xue , Lixin Duan , Wen Li , Lin Chen , Jiebo Luo

Knowledge-Intensive Visual Grounding (KVG) requires models to localize objects using fine-grained, domain-specific entity names rather than generic referring expressions. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess rich entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xinyu Ma , Ziyang Ding , Zhicong Luo , Chi Chen , Zonghao Guo , Derek F. Wong , Zhen Zhao , Xiaoyi Feng , Maosong Sun

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

Multi-task visual grounding (MTVG) includes two sub-tasks, i.e., Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) and Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). The existing representative approaches generally follow the research pipeline which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingchao Wang , Hong Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Kunhua Ji , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), which is aimed at localizing and segmenting the target according to the given language expression, has drawn increasing attention. Existing methods jointly consider the localization and segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Hui Li , Mingjie Sun , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim , Yao Zhao

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) is an emerging information extraction (IE) task, aiming to simultaneously extract entity spans, types, and corresponding visual regions of entities from given sentence-image pairs data.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jielong Tang , Zhenxing Wang , Ziyang Gong , Jianxing Yu , Xiangwei Zhu , Jian Yin