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The key to successful grounding for video surveillance is to understand a semantic phrase corresponding to important actors and objects. Conventional methods ignore comprehensive contexts for the phrase or require heavy computation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sunoh Kim , Kimin Yun , Jin Young Choi

Temporal sentence grounding is a challenging task that aims to localize the moment spans relevant to a language description. Although recent DETR-based models have achieved notable progress by leveraging multiple learnable moment queries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xiaolong Sun , Liushuai Shi , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Kun Xia , Yabing Wang , Gang Hua

Weakly supervised phrase grounding aims at learning region-phrase correspondences using only image-sentence pairs. A major challenge thus lies in the missing links between image regions and sentence phrases during training. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Liwei Wang , Jing Huang , Yin Li , Kun Xu , Zhengyuan Yang , Dong Yu

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end framework for instance segmentation. Based on the recently introduced DETR [1], our method, termed SOLQ, segments objects by learning unified queries. In SOLQ, each query represents one object and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Bin Dong , Fangao Zeng , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

We consider detecting objects in an image by iteratively selecting from a set of arbitrarily shaped candidate regions. Our generic approach, which we term visual chunking, reasons about the locations of multiple object instances in an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Nicholas Rhinehart , Jiaji Zhou , Martial Hebert , J. Andrew Bagnell

In this work, we present SEEM, a promptable and interactive model for segmenting everything everywhere all at once in an image, as shown in Fig.1. In SEEM, we propose a novel decoding mechanism that enables diverse prompting for all types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xueyan Zou , Jianwei Yang , Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Lijuan Wang , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee

Visual tasks vary a lot in their output formats and concerned contents, therefore it is hard to process them with an identical structure. One main obstacle lies in the high-dimensional outputs in object-level visual tasks. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zhiyang Chen , Yousong Zhu , Zhaowen Li , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Haixin Wang , Chaoyang Zhao , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Jinqiao Wang , Ming Tang

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize objects in 3D scenes using natural language descriptions. Although supervised methods achieve higher accuracy in constrained settings, zero-shot 3DVG holds greater promise for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jiawen Lin , Shiran Bian , Yihang Zhu , Wenbin Tan , Yachao Zhang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Weakly supervised Referring Expression Grounding (REG) aims to ground a particular target in an image described by a language expression while lacking the correspondence between target and expression. Two main problems exist in weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Zechao Li , Qi Tian , Qingming Huang

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object mentioned in natural language from an image. The main challenge is text-to-pixel fine-grained correlation. In the previous methods, the final results are obtained by convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wang , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

We propose UniTAB that Unifies Text And Box outputs for grounded vision-language (VL) modeling. Grounded VL tasks such as grounded captioning require the model to generate a text description and align predicted words with object regions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhengyuan Yang , Zhe Gan , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Faisal Ahmed , Zicheng Liu , Yumao Lu , Lijuan Wang

Large Vision--Language Models (LVLMs) hold great promise for advancing optical remote sensing (RS) analysis, yet existing reasoning segmentation frameworks couple linguistic reasoning and pixel prediction through end-to-end supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xu Zhang , Junyao Ge , Yang Zheng , Kaitai Guo , Jimin Liang

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 present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), which aims to ground target clips from videos (such as consecutive intervals or disjoint shots) according to custom language queries (e.g., sentences or words), is key for video browsing on social media. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Joya Chen , Shraman Pramanick , Difei Gao , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Rui Yan , Mike Zheng Shou

Text-prompted image segmentation enables fine-grained visual understanding and is critical for applications such as human-computer interaction and robotics. However, existing supervised fine-tuning methods typically ignore explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lianghui Zhu , Bin Ouyang , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Rui Hu , Haocheng Shen , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Akshar Tumu , Varad Shinde , Parisa Kordjamshidi

We introduce Visual Caption Restoration (VCR), a novel vision-language task that challenges models to accurately restore partially obscured texts using pixel-level hints within images. This task stems from the observation that text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Lu Li , Ge Zhang , Perouz Taslakian , Sai Rajeswar , Jie Fu , Bang Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Recent work has shown that speech paired with images can be used to learn semantically meaningful speech representations even without any textual supervision. In real-world low-resource settings, however, we often have access to some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Ankita Pasad , Bowen Shi , Herman Kamper , Karen Livescu

Effectively grounding complex language to pixels in remote sensing (RS) images is a critical challenge for applications like disaster response and environmental monitoring. Current models can parse simple, single-target commands but fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zepeng Xin , Kaiyu Li , Luodi Chen , Wanchen Li , Yuchen Xiao , Hui Qiao , Weizhan Zhang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao