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Cognitive grammar suggests that the acquisition of language grammar is grounded within visual structures. While grammar is an essential representation of natural language, it also exists ubiquitously in vision to represent the hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yining Hong , Qing Li , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

We present a fast, spatio-temporal scene understanding framework based on Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT). The proposed pipeline is designed to enable efficient, close to real-time performance, supporting applications including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Gergely Dinya , Péter Halász , András Lőrincz , Kristóf Karacs , Anna Gelencsér-Horváth

Object proposal generation serves as a standard pre-processing step in Vision-Language (VL) tasks (image captioning, visual question answering, etc.). The performance of object proposals generated for VL tasks is currently evaluated across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Joshua Feinglass , Yezhou Yang

Visual-prompt-guided edit transfer aims to learn image transformations directly from example pairs, offering more precise and controllable editing than purely text-driven approaches. However, existing diffusion transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yiren Song , Yuchao Gu , Siwei Ma

Embodied visual tracking is to follow a target object in dynamic 3D environments using an agent's egocentric vision. This is a vital and challenging skill for embodied agents. However, existing methods suffer from inefficient training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fangwei Zhong , Kui Wu , Hai Ci , Churan Wang , Hao Chen

This research introduces an innovative method for Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) by leveraging deep learning techniques, with a particular emphasis on Vision Transformers. TSR holds a vital role in advancing driver assistance systems and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Susano Mingwin , Yulong Shisu , Yongshuai Wanwag , Sunshin Huing

We propose Attention Grounder (AttnGrounder), a single-stage end-to-end trainable model for the task of visual grounding. Visual grounding aims to localize a specific object in an image based on a given natural language text query. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Vivek Mittal

We introduce a variety of models, trained on a supervised image captioning corpus to predict the image features for a given caption, to perform sentence representation grounding. We train a grounded sentence encoder that achieves good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Douwe Kiela , Alexis Conneau , Allan Jabri , Maximilian Nickel

In this work, we introduce Vision-Language Generative Pre-trained Transformer (VL-GPT), a transformer model proficient at concurrently perceiving and generating visual and linguistic data. VL-GPT achieves a unified pre-training approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jinguo Zhu , Xiaohan Ding , Yixiao Ge , Yuying Ge , Sijie Zhao , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiaohua Wang , Ying Shan

We introduce the first multitasking vision transformer adapters that learn generalizable task affinities which can be applied to novel tasks and domains. Integrated into an off-the-shelf vision transformer backbone, our adapters can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Deblina Bhattacharjee , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Grounding textual phrases in visual content is a meaningful yet challenging problem with various potential applications such as image-text inference or text-driven multimedia interaction. Most of the current existing methods adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Tianshu Yu , Yezhou Yang

We present the Visually Grounded Neural Syntax Learner (VG-NSL), an approach for learning syntactic representations and structures without any explicit supervision. The model learns by looking at natural images and reading paired captions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Haoyue Shi , Jiayuan Mao , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities for generative tasks by leveraging strong vision-language alignment from pre-training. However, most vision-language discriminative tasks require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Xuyang Liu , Siteng Huang , Yachen Kang , Honggang Chen , Donglin Wang

Vision Transformers rely on fixed patch tokens that ignore the spatial and semantic structure of images. In this work, we introduce an end-to-end differentiable tokenizer that adapts to image content with pixel-level granularity while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Marius Aasan , Martine Hjelkrem-Tan , Nico Catalano , Changkyu Choi , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Visual grounding aims to localize an object in an image referred to by a textual query phrase. Various visual grounding approaches have been proposed, and the problem can be modularized into a general framework: proposal generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Zhou Yu , Jun Yu , Chenchao Xiang , Zhou Zhao , Qi Tian , Dacheng Tao

Given an untrimmed video, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a target moment semantically according to a sentence query. Although previous respectable works have made decent success, they only focus on high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Guoshun Nan

Most models tasked to ground referential utterances in 2D and 3D scenes learn to select the referred object from a pool of object proposals provided by a pre-trained detector. This is limiting because an utterance may refer to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ayush Jain , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Ishita Mediratta , Katerina Fragkiadaki

We present Voxel Transformer (VoTr), a novel and effective voxel-based Transformer backbone for 3D object detection from point clouds. Conventional 3D convolutional backbones in voxel-based 3D detectors cannot efficiently capture large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jiageng Mao , Yujing Xue , Minzhe Niu , Haoyue Bai , Jiashi Feng , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu

Vision-based Transformer have shown huge application in the perception module of autonomous driving in terms of predicting accurate 3D bounding boxes, owing to their strong capability in modeling long-range dependencies between the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Apoorv Singh

Significant progress has been made on visual captioning, largely relying on pre-trained features and later fixed object detectors that serve as rich inputs to auto-regressive models. A key limitation of such methods, however, is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira