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Weakly-supervised grounded image captioning (WSGIC) aims to generate the caption and ground (localize) predicted object words in the input image without using bounding box supervision. Recent two-stage solutions mostly apply a bottom-up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chen Cai , Suchen Wang , Kim-hui Yap , Yi Wang

Weakly supervised Referring Expression Grounding (REG) aims to ground a particular target in an image described by a language expression while lacking the correspondence between target and expression. Two main problems exist in weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Zechao Li , Qi Tian , Qingming Huang

Recently, increasing efforts have been focused on Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation (WSSGG). The mainstream solution for WSSGG typically follows the same pipeline: they first align text entities in the weak image-level supervisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xingchen Li , Long Chen , Wenbo Ma , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Weakly-supervised learning approaches have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the effort required for human annotations in training neural networks. This paper investigates a framework for weakly-supervised object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Byeongkeun Kang , Sinhae Cha , Yeejin Lee

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a compelling tool for object detection by reducing the need for strong supervision during training. However, major challenges remain: (1) differentiation of object instances can be ambiguous; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhongzheng Ren , Zhiding Yu , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Yong Jae Lee , Alexander G. Schwing , Jan Kautz

In this paper, we study the problem of weakly-supervised temporal grounding of sentence in video. Specifically, given an untrimmed video and a query sentence, our goal is to localize a temporal segment in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Peng Tang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

3D visual grounding consists of identifying the instance in a 3D scene which is referred by an accompanying language description. While several architectures have been proposed within the commonly employed grounding-by-selection framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Sombit Dey , Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

Weakly supervised visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects in images based on text descriptions. Despite significant progress, existing methods lack strong cross-modal reasoning to distinguish subtle semantic differences in text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yidan Wang , Chenyi Zhuang , Wutao Liu , Pan Gao , Nicu Sebe

We target at the task of weakly-supervised video object grounding (WSVOG), where only video-sentence annotations are available during model learning. It aims to localize objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Wang , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

Weakly supervised phrase grounding aims at learning region-phrase correspondences using only image-sentence pairs. A major challenge thus lies in the missing links between image regions and sentence phrases during training. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Liwei Wang , Jing Huang , Yin Li , Kun Xu , Zhengyuan Yang , Dong Yu

In this paper, we address the problem of referring expression comprehension in videos, which is challenging due to complex expression and scene dynamics. Unlike previous methods which solve the problem in multiple stages (i.e., tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Sijie Song , Xudong Lin , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo , Shih-Fu Chang

Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Various methods have been proposed to detect objects while reducing the cost of data annotation. For instance, weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) methods rely only on image-level annotations during training. Unfortunately, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Eduardo Hugo Sanchez

Visual grounding is a ubiquitous building block in many vision-language tasks and yet remains challenging due to large variations in visual and linguistic features of grounding entities, strong context effect and the resulting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Xiaodan Zhu , Xuming He

Multisource image analysis that leverages complementary spectral, spatial, and structural information benefits fine-grained object recognition that aims to classify an object into one of many similar subcategories. However, for multisource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Bulut Aygunes , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Selim Aksoy

Visual relationship detection is fundamental for holistic image understanding. However, the localization and classification of (subject, predicate, object) triplets remain challenging tasks, due to the combinatorial explosion of possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Federico Baldassarre , Kevin Smith , Josephine Sullivan , Hossein Azizpour

The task of temporally grounding textual queries in videos is to localize one video segment that semantically corresponds to the given query. Most of the existing approaches rely on segment-sentence pairs (temporal annotations) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yijun Song , Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Zhou Yu , Jun Yu

Referring expression grounding aims at locating certain objects or persons in an image with a referring expression, where the key challenge is to comprehend and align various types of information from visual and textual domain, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Xihui Liu , Zihao Wang , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

The large adoption of the self-attention (i.e. transformer model) and BERT-like training principles has recently resulted in a number of high performing models on a large panoply of vision-and-language problems (such as Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Corentin Kervadec , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Christian Wolf