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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

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant progress in integrating visual and textual inputs for multimodal reasoning. However, a recurring challenge is ensuring these models utilize visual information as effectively as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Tiep Le , Man Luo , Shachar Rosenman , Sayak Paul , Shao-Yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal

Visual dialog is a task of answering a series of inter-dependent questions given an input image, and often requires to resolve visual references among the questions. This problem is different from visual question answering (VQA), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Andreas Lehrmann , Bohyung Han , Leonid Sigal

We introduce a new dataset for training and evaluating grounded language models. Our data is collected within a virtual reality environment and is designed to emulate the quality of language data to which a pre-verbal child is likely to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Dylan Ebert , Ellie Pavlick

Achieving visual reasoning is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. In the last decade, several studies have applied deep neural networks (DNNs) to the task of learning visual relations from images, with modest results in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Guillermo Puebla , Jeffrey S. Bowers

Visual relationships capture a wide variety of interactions between pairs of objects in images (e.g. "man riding bicycle" and "man pushing bicycle"). Consequently, the set of possible relationships is extremely large and it is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Cewu Lu , Ranjay Krishna , Michael Bernstein , Li Fei-Fei

Recent advances in vision-language reasoning underscore the importance of thinking with images, where models actively ground their reasoning in visual evidence. Yet, prevailing frameworks treat visual actions as optional tools, boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Changpeng Wang , Haozhe Wang , Xi Chen , Junhan Liu , Taofeng Xue , Chong Peng , Donglian Qi , Fangzhen Lin , Yunfeng Yan

Large text-to-video models hold immense potential for a wide range of downstream applications. However, they struggle to accurately depict dynamic object interactions, often resulting in unrealistic movements and frequent violations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hiroki Furuta , Heiga Zen , Dale Schuurmans , Aleksandra Faust , Yutaka Matsuo , Percy Liang , Sherry Yang

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

Despite significant progress in multimodal language models (LMs), it remains unclear whether visual grounding enhances their understanding of embodied knowledge compared to text-only models. To address this question, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhihui Yang , Yupei Wang , Kaijie Mo , Zhe Zhao , Renfen Hu

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

Visual-language grounding aims to establish semantic correspondences between natural language and visual entities, enabling models to accurately identify and localize target objects based on textual instructions. Existing VLG approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Ying Shen

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced the visual grounding task, which involves locating objects in an image based on natural language queries. Despite these advancements, the security of VLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Junxian Li , Beining Xu , Simin Chen , Jiatong Li , Jingdi Lei , Haodong Zhao , Di Zhang

With the rapid advancement of image captioning and visual question answering at single-round level, the question of how to generate multi-round dialogue about visual content has not yet been well explored.Existing visual dialogue methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziwei Wang , Zi Huang , Yadan Luo , Huimin Lu

3D visual grounding aims to automatically locate the 3D region of the specified object given the corresponding textual description. Existing works fail to distinguish similar objects especially when multiple referred objects are involved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Qiuxia Wu , Wenxiong Kang

We describe a method for performing active localization of objects in instances of visual situations. A visual situation is an abstract concept---e.g., "a boxing match", "a birthday party", "walking the dog", "waiting for a bus"---whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Max H. Quinn , Anthony D. Rhodes , Melanie Mitchell

Exploiting relationships among objects has achieved remarkable progress in interpreting images or videos by natural language. Most existing methods resort to first detecting objects and their relationships, and then generating textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jingyi Hou , Xinxiao Wu , Yayun Qi , Wentian Zhao , Jiebo Luo , Yunde Jia

Most visual grounding solutions primarily focus on realistic images. However, applications involving synthetic images, such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), remain limited. This restricts the development of autonomous computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 El Hassane Ettifouri , Jessica López Espejel , Laura Minkova , Tassnim Dardouri , Walid Dahhane

As robots begin to cohabit with humans in semi-structured environments, the need arises to understand instructions involving rich variability---for instance, learning to ground symbols in the physical world. Realistically, this task must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Yordan Hristov , Svetlin Penkov , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Grounding language in the physical world requires AI systems to interpret references that emerge dynamically during conversation. While current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static image tasks, they struggle to resolve ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Lubos Marcinek , Anna Klezovich , Iolanda Leite , Jonas Beskow