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The visible orientation of human eyes creates some transparency about people's spatial attention and other mental states. This leads to a dual role of the eyes as a means of sensing and communication. Accordingly, artificial eye models are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Matti Krüger , Yutaka Oshima , Yu Fang

Enabling intuitive, language-driven interaction with surgical scenes is a critical step toward intelligent operating rooms and autonomous surgical robotic assistance. However, the task of referring segmentation, localizing surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Meng Wei , Kun Yuan , Shi Li , Yue Zhou , Long Bai , Nassir Navab , Hongliang Ren , Hong Joo Lee , Tom Vercauteren , Nicolas Padoy

In the realm of computer vision and robotics, embodied agents are expected to explore their environment and carry out human instructions. This necessitates the ability to fully understand 3D scenes given their first-person observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Tai Wang , Xiaohan Mao , Chenming Zhu , Runsen Xu , Ruiyuan Lyu , Peisen Li , Xiao Chen , Wenwei Zhang , Kai Chen , Tianfan Xue , Xihui Liu , Cewu Lu , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

We investigate the problem of object referring (OR) i.e. to localize a target object in a visual scene coming with a language description. Humans perceive the world more as continued video snippets than as static images, and describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Progress in embodied intelligence increasingly depends on scalable data infrastructure. While vision and language have scaled with internet corpora, learning physical interaction remains constrained by the lack of large, diverse, and richly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yufan Deng , Daquan Zhou

This paper introduces a new video-and-language dataset with human actions for multimodal logical inference, which focuses on intentional and aspectual expressions that describe dynamic human actions. The dataset consists of 200 videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Riko Suzuki , Hitomi Yanaka , Koji Mineshima , Daisuke Bekki

There has been a significant recent progress in the field of Embodied AI with researchers developing models and algorithms enabling embodied agents to navigate and interact within completely unseen environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Luca Weihs , Matt Deitke , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) systems have gained huge interest in recent years, with reference expression comprehension being one of the main challenges. Traditionally human-machine interaction has been mostly limited to speech and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aman Jain , Anirudh Reddy Kondapally , Kentaro Yamada , Hitomi Yanaka

Referring expressions are commonly used when referring to a specific target in people's daily dialogue. In this paper, we develop a novel task of audio-visual grounding referring expression for robotic manipulation. The robot leverages both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Yefei Wang , Kaili Wang , Yi Wang , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

We introduce Look and Tell, a multimodal dataset for studying referential communication across egocentric and exocentric perspectives. Using Meta Project Aria smart glasses and stationary cameras, we recorded synchronized gaze, speech, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Anna Deichler , Jonas Beskow

Human-centric perceptions play a crucial role in real-world applications. While recent human-centric works have achieved impressive progress, these efforts are often constrained to the visual domain and lack interaction with human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jie Huang , Ruibing Hou , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan

This paper presents INGRESS, a robot system that follows human natural language instructions to pick and place everyday objects. The core issue here is the grounding of referring expressions: infer objects and their relationships from input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

The human language is one of the most natural interfaces for humans to interact with robots. This paper presents a robot system that retrieves everyday objects with unconstrained natural language descriptions. A core issue for the system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

Establishing stable mappings between natural language expressions and visual percepts is a foundational problem for both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Humans routinely ground linguistic reference in noisy, ambiguous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

Human-robot collaboration is an essential research topic in artificial intelligence (AI), enabling researchers to devise cognitive AI systems and affords an intuitive means for users to interact with the robot. Of note, communication plays…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Qi Wu , Cheng-Ju Wu , Yixin Zhu , Jungseock Joo

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

Traditional cross-modal retrieval assumes explicit association of concepts across modalities, where there is no ambiguity in how the concepts are linked to each other, e.g., when we do the image search with a query "dogs", we expect to see…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Yale Song , Mohammad Soleymani

Intelligent robots designed to interact with humans in real scenarios need to be able to refer to entities actively by natural language. In spatial referring expression generation, the ambiguity is unavoidable due to the diversity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mingjiang Liu , Chengli Xiao , Chunlin Chen

Interactive segmentation aims to segment the specified target on the image with positive and negative clicks from users. Interactive ambiguity is a crucial issue in this field, which refers to the possibility of multiple compliant outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zheng Lin , Nan Zhou , Chen-Xi Du , Deng-Ping Fan , Shi-Min Hu