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We present VGGT, a feed-forward neural network that directly infers all key 3D attributes of a scene, including camera parameters, point maps, depth maps, and 3D point tracks, from one, a few, or hundreds of its views. This approach is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jianyuan Wang , Minghao Chen , Nikita Karaev , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht , David Novotny

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal

Textual grounding is an important but challenging task for human-computer interaction, robotics and knowledge mining. Existing algorithms generally formulate the task as selection from a set of bounding box proposals obtained from deep net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Raymond A. Yeh , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei W. Hwu , Minh N. Do , Alexander G. Schwing

In this work, we present a unified framework for multi-modality 3D object detection, named UVTR. The proposed method aims to unify multi-modality representations in the voxel space for accurate and robust single- or cross-modality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yanwei Li , Yilun Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Zeming Li , Jian Sun , Jiaya Jia

3D visual grounding aims to identify and localize objects in a 3D space based on textual descriptions. However, existing methods struggle with disentangling targets from anchors in complex multi-anchor queries and resolving inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronggang Huang , Haoxin Yang , Yan Cai , Xuemiao Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He

Transformers, the de-facto standard for language modeling, have been recently applied for vision tasks. This paper introduces sparse queries for vision transformers to exploit the intrinsic spatial redundancy of natural images and save…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Lin Song , Songyang Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zeming Li , Xuming He , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Multimodal transformer exhibits high capacity and flexibility to align image and text for visual grounding. However, the existing encoder-only grounding framework (e.g., TransVG) suffers from heavy computation due to the self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Fengyuan Shi , Ruopeng Gao , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Visual dialogue is a challenging task since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions on the basis of understanding the visual environment. Previous studies focus on the implicit exploration of multimodal co-reference by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Feilong Chen , Fandong Meng , Xiuyi Chen , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

Visual grounding is a promising path toward more robust and accurate Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. Many multimodal extensions of BERT (e.g., VideoBERT, LXMERT, VL-BERT) allow a joint modeling of texts and images that lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Damien Sileo

In this paper, we propose a simple yet universal network termed SeqTR for visual grounding tasks, e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension (REC) and segmentation (RES). The canonical paradigms for visual grounding often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chaoyang Zhu , Yiyi Zhou , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Xingjia Pan , Mingbao Lin , Chao Chen , Liujuan Cao , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Machine Interpreting systems are currently implemented as unimodal, real-time speech-to-speech architectures, processing translation exclusively on the basis of the linguistic signal. Such reliance on a single modality, however, constrains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Claudio Fantinuoli

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

We present a new method that views object detection as a direct set prediction problem. Our approach streamlines the detection pipeline, effectively removing the need for many hand-designed components like a non-maximum suppression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Nicolas Carion , Francisco Massa , Gabriel Synnaeve , Nicolas Usunier , Alexander Kirillov , Sergey Zagoruyko

3D visual grounding aims to identify the target object within a 3D point cloud scene referred to by a natural language description. Previous works usually require significant data relating to point color and their descriptions to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tung-Yu Wu , Sheng-Yu Huang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Our objective is language-based search of large-scale image and video datasets. For this task, the approach that consists of independently mapping text and vision to a joint embedding space, a.k.a. dual encoders, is attractive as retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Antoine Miech , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Andrew Zisserman

Modeling semantic information is helpful for scene text recognition. In this work, we propose to model semantic and visual information jointly with a Visual-Semantic Transformer (VST). The VST first explicitly extracts primary semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xin Tang , Yongquan Lai , Ying Liu , Yuanyuan Fu , Rui Fang

3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

Visual grounding is a task that aims to locate a target object according to a natural language expression. As a multi-modal task, feature interaction between textual and visual inputs is vital. However, previous solutions mainly handle each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chonghan Chen , Qi Jiang , Chih-Hao Wang , Noel Chen , Haohan Wang , Xiang Li , Bhiksha Raj

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

We present lazy visual grounding, a two-stage approach of unsupervised object mask discovery followed by object grounding, for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Plenty of the previous art casts this task as pixel-to-text classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho