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Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable progress in general video understanding. However, existing models primarily focus on high-level comprehension and are limited to text-only responses, restricting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haochen Wang , Qirui Chen , Cilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Stratis Gavves

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

In this paper, we introduce a new task, spoken video grounding (SVG), which aims to localize the desired video fragments from spoken language descriptions. Compared with using text, employing audio requires the model to directly exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao , Shangwei Ye , Yang Zhao , Haoyuan Li , Yi Ren

Grounded video description (GVD) encourages captioning models to attend to appropriate video regions (e.g., objects) dynamically and generate a description. Such a setting can help explain the decisions of captioning models and prevents the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Wenqiao Zhang , Xin Eric Wang , Siliang Tang , Haizhou Shi , Haocheng Shi , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , William Yang Wang

Video Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over spatial, temporal, and causal cues in videos. Recent vision language models (VLMs) achieve strong results but often rely on shallow correlations, leading to weak temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Haodi Ma , Vyom Pathak , Daisy Zhe Wang

We study weakly-supervised video object grounding: given a video segment and a corresponding descriptive sentence, the goal is to localize objects that are mentioned from the sentence in the video. During training, no object bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Luowei Zhou , Nathan Louis , Jason J. Corso

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Egocentric video grounding is a crucial task for embodied intelligence applications, distinct from exocentric video moment localization. Existing methods primarily focus on the distributional differences between egocentric and exocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yisen Feng , Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

Localizing objects in 3D scenes according to the semantics of a given natural language is a fundamental yet important task in the field of multimedia understanding, which benefits various real-world applications such as robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wencan Huang , Daizong Liu , Wei Hu

Current methods for learning visually grounded language from videos often rely on text annotation, such as human generated captions or machine generated automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. In this work, we introduce the…

Visual grounding associates textual descriptions with objects in an image. Conventional methods target third-person image inputs and named object queries. In applications such as AI assistants, the perspective shifts -- inputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengzhan Sun , Junbin Xiao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Yicong Li , Arjun Akula , Angela Yao

Visual context provides grounding information for multimodal machine translation (MMT). However, previous MMT models and probing studies on visual features suggest that visual information is less explored in MMT as it is often redundant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Dexin Wang , Deyi Xiong

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize temporal segments in long, untrimmed videos that align with a given natural language query. This task typically comprises two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment video objects with the guidance of natural language reference. Previous methods typically tackle RVOS through directly grounding linguistic reference over the image lattice. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chen Liang , Yu Wu , Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Zongxin Yang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Video grounding aims to localize a spatio-temporal section in a video corresponding to an input text query. This paper addresses a critical limitation in current video grounding methodologies by introducing an Open-Vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

In this paper, we introduce the task of visual grounding for remote sensing data (RSVG). RSVG aims to localize the referred objects in remote sensing (RS) images with the guidance of natural language. To retrieve rich information from RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yang Zhan , Zhitong Xiong , Yuan Yuan

3D object affordance grounding aims to identify regions on 3D objects that support human-object interaction (HOI), a capability essential to embodied visual reasoning. However, most existing approaches rely on static visual or textual cues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Aihua Mao , Kaihang Huang , Yong-Jin Liu , Chee Seng Chan , Ying He

Visual grounding (VG) aims at locating the foreground entities that match the given natural language expressions. Previous datasets and methods for classic VG task mainly rely on the prior assumption that the given expression must literally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Xingjian He , Yichen Yan , Zijia Zhao , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Visual grounding aims to identify objects or regions in a scene based on natural language descriptions, essential for spatially aware perception in autonomous driving. However, existing visual grounding tasks typically depend on bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhan Shi , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Traditional video captioning requests a holistic description of the video, yet the detailed descriptions of the specific objects may not be available. Without associating the moving trajectories, these image-based data-driven methods cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Fangyi Zhu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Zhanyu Ma , Guang Chen , Jun Guo