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Visual grounding aims to localize the object referred to in an image based on a natural language query. Although progress has been made recently, accurately localizing target objects within multiple-instance distractions (multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Jiahua Zhang , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to utilize given natural language queries to locate specific target objects within images. While current transformer-based approaches demonstrate strong localization performance in standard scene (i.e, scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiangnan Xie , Xiaolong Zheng , Liang Zheng

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ke Li , Ting Wang , Di Wang , Yongshan Zhu , Yiming Zhang , Tao Lei , Quan Wang

Weakly supervised visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects in images based on text descriptions. Despite significant progress, existing methods lack strong cross-modal reasoning to distinguish subtle semantic differences in text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yidan Wang , Chenyi Zhuang , Wutao Liu , Pan Gao , Nicu Sebe

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo

Visual grounding (VG) aims at locating the foreground entities that match the given natural language expressions. Previous datasets and methods for classic VG task mainly rely on the prior assumption that the given expression must literally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Xingjian He , Yichen Yan , Zijia Zhao , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Visual grounding is a promising path toward more robust and accurate Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. Many multimodal extensions of BERT (e.g., VideoBERT, LXMERT, VL-BERT) allow a joint modeling of texts and images that lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Damien Sileo

Visual Grounding (VG) aims at localizing target objects from an image based on given expressions and has made significant progress with the development of detection and vision transformer. However, existing VG methods tend to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Menghao Li , Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Shuchang Lyu , Guangliang Cheng , Xiangtai Li , Binghao Liu , Qi Zhao

Visual grounding (VG) tasks involve explicit cross-modal alignment, as semantically corresponding image regions are to be located for the language phrases provided. Existing approaches complete such visual-text reasoning in a single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sijia Chen , Baochun Li

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

Human intelligence effortlessly interprets visual scenes along a rich spectrum of semantic dimensions. However, existing approaches to language-grounded visual concept learning are limited to a few predefined primitive axes, such as color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Semin Kim , Junee Kim , Seunghoon Hong

Visual dialog is challenging since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions based on understanding the visual environment. How to ground related visual objects is one of the key problems. Previous studies utilize the question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Feilong Chen , Xiuyi Chen , Can Xu , Daxin Jiang

Weakly supervised visual grounding aims to predict the region in an image that corresponds to a specific linguistic query, where the mapping between the target object and query is unknown in the training stage. The state-of-the-art method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Viet-Quoc Pham , Nao Mishima

Vision-Language Tracking aims to continuously localize objects described by a visual template and a language description. Existing methods, however, are typically limited to local search, making them prone to failures under viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jingchao Wang , Kaiwen Zhou , Zhijian Wu , Kunhua Ji , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng

The 3D visual grounding task aims to ground a natural language description to the targeted object in a 3D scene, which is usually represented in 3D point clouds. Previous works studied visual grounding under specific views. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Shijia Huang , Yilun Chen , Jiaya Jia , Liwei Wang

3D visual grounding (3DVG) involves localizing entities in a 3D scene referred to by natural language text. Such models are useful for embodied AI and scene retrieval applications, which involve searching for objects or patterns using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Austin T. Wang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

We propose Visual Query Detection (VQD), a new visual grounding task. In VQD, a system is guided by natural language to localize a variable number of objects in an image. VQD is related to visual referring expression recognition, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Manoj Acharya , Karan Jariwala , Christopher Kanan

Large vision-and-language models (VLMs) trained to match images with text on large-scale datasets of image-text pairs have shown impressive generalization ability on several vision and language tasks. Several recent works, however, showed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

We introduce a language-grounded visual prompting method to adapt the visual encoder of vision-language models for downstream tasks. By capitalizing on language integration, we devise a parameter-efficient strategy to adjust the input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nilakshan Kunananthaseelan , Jing Zhang , Mehrtash Harandi

Current visual grounding models are either based on a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that performs auto-regressive decoding, which is slow and risks hallucinations, or on re-aligning an LLM with vision features to learn new special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Weitai Kang , Jason Kuen , Mengwei Ren , Zijun Wei , Yan Yan , Kangning Liu