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In this paper, we introduce Narrative Learning, a methodology where models are defined entirely in natural language and iteratively refine their classification criteria using explanatory prompts rather than traditional numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Gregory D. Baker

Vision-and-language models trained to match images with text can be combined with visual explanation methods to point to the locations of specific objects in an image. Our work shows that the localization --"grounding"-- abilities of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Ruozhen He , Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Ziyan Yang , Alexander C. Berg , Vicente Ordonez

Recent models achieve promising results in visually grounded dialogues. However, existing datasets often contain undesirable biases and lack sophisticated linguistic analyses, which make it difficult to understand how well current models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Takuma Udagawa , Takato Yamazaki , Akiko Aizawa

Understanding dynamic 4D environments through natural language queries requires not only accurate scene reconstruction but also robust semantic grounding across space, time, and viewpoints. While recent methods using neural representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ruilin Tang , Yang Zhou , Zhong Ye , Wenxi Liu , Yan Huang , Shengfeng He

We address the problem of grounding free-form textual phrases by using weak supervision from image-caption pairs. We propose a novel end-to-end model that uses caption-to-image retrieval as a `downstream' task to guide the process of phrase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Samyak Datta , Karan Sikka , Anirban Roy , Karuna Ahuja , Devi Parikh , Ajay Divakaran

The problem of language grounding has attracted much attention in recent years due to its pivotal role in more general image-lingual high level reasoning tasks (e.g., image captioning, VQA). Despite the tremendous progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zicong Fan , Si Yi Meng , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

We propose a margin-based loss for tuning joint vision-language models so that their gradient-based explanations are consistent with region-level annotations provided by humans for relatively smaller grounding datasets. We refer to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ziyan Yang , Kushal Kafle , Franck Dernoncourt , Vicente Ordonez

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of 3D concept grounding (i.e. segmenting and learning visual concepts) by looking at RGBD images and reasoning about paired questions and answers. Existing visual reasoning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yining Hong , Yilun Du , Chunru Lin , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Panoptic segmentation is an important computer vision task, where the current state-of-the-art solutions require specialized components to perform well. We propose a simple generalist framework based on a deep encoder - shallow decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Wouter Van Gansbeke , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

We introduce a unified framework to jointly model images, text, and human attention traces. Our work is built on top of the recent Localized Narratives annotation framework [30], where each word of a given caption is paired with a mouse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zihang Meng , Licheng Yu , Ning Zhang , Tamara Berg , Babak Damavandi , Vikas Singh , Amy Bearman

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

This paper presents a framework for jointly grounding objects that follow certain semantic relationship constraints given in a scene graph. A typical natural scene contains several objects, often exhibiting visual relationships of varied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Aditay Tripathi , Anand Mishra , Anirban Chakraborty

Localized Narratives is a dataset with detailed natural language descriptions of images paired with mouse traces that provide a sparse, fine-grained visual grounding for phrases. We propose TReCS, a sequential model that exploits this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jing Yu Koh , Jason Baldridge , Honglak Lee , Yinfei Yang

Grounding natural language in images, such as localizing "the black dog on the left of the tree", is one of the core problems in artificial intelligence, as it needs to comprehend the fine-grained and compositional language space. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Richang Hong , Daqing Liu , Xiaoyu Mo , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang

We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

We study the problem of jointly reasoning about language and vision through a navigation and spatial reasoning task. We introduce the Touchdown task and dataset, where an agent must first follow navigation instructions in a real-life visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Howard Chen , Alane Suhr , Dipendra Misra , Noah Snavely , Yoav Artzi

We present a general theory and corresponding declarative model for the embodied grounding and natural language based analytical summarisation of dynamic visuo-spatial imagery. The declarative model ---ecompassing spatio-linguistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Jakob Suchan , Mehul Bhatt , Harshita Jhavar

In this paper, we present a simple baseline for visual grounding for autonomous driving which outperforms the state of the art methods, while retaining minimal design choices. Our framework minimizes the cross-entropy loss over the cosine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nivedita Rufus , Unni Krishnan R Nair , K. Madhava Krishna , Vineet Gandhi

Tracking by natural language specification aims to locate the referred target in a sequence based on the natural language description. Existing algorithms solve this issue in two steps, visual grounding and tracking, and accordingly deploy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Li Zhou , Zikun Zhou , Kaige Mao , Zhenyu He

Stories generated with neural language models have shown promise in grammatical and stylistic consistency. However, the generated stories are still lacking in common sense reasoning, e.g., they often contain sentences deprived of world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Huanru Henry Mao , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley , Garrison W. Cottrell