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Visual grounding of Language aims at enriching textual representations of language with multiple sources of visual knowledge such as images and videos. Although visual grounding is an area of intense research, inter-lingual aspects of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Wafaa Mohammed , Hassan Shahmohammadi , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , R. Harald Baayen

Machine Interpreting systems are currently implemented as unimodal, real-time speech-to-speech architectures, processing translation exclusively on the basis of the linguistic signal. Such reliance on a single modality, however, constrains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Claudio Fantinuoli

Visual dialogue is a challenging task since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions on the basis of understanding the visual environment. Previous studies focus on the implicit exploration of multimodal co-reference by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Feilong Chen , Fandong Meng , Xiuyi Chen , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

Visual grounding is a task to ground referring expressions in images, e.g., localize "the white truck in front of the yellow one". To resolve this task fundamentally, the model should first find out the contextual objects (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Meng Wang , Qianru Sun

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

In this paper, we introduce a contextual grounding approach that captures the context in corresponding text entities and image regions to improve the grounding accuracy. Specifically, the proposed architecture accepts pre-trained text token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Farley Lai , Ning Xie , Derek Doran , Asim Kadav

We propose a simple, fast, and accurate one-stage approach to visual grounding, inspired by the following insight. The performances of existing propose-and-rank two-stage methods are capped by the quality of the region candidates they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhengyuan Yang , Boqing Gong , Liwei Wang , Wenbing Huang , Dong Yu , Jiebo Luo

Open-vocabulary learning has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, particularly in light of the widespread adoption of vision-based foundational models. Its primary objective is to comprehend novel concepts that are not encompassed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Xiangtai Li , Guangliang Cheng , Shuchang Lyu , Binghao Liu , Lijiang Chen , Qi Zhao

3D visual grounding aims to identify and localize objects in a 3D space based on textual descriptions. However, existing methods struggle with disentangling targets from anchors in complex multi-anchor queries and resolving inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronggang Huang , Haoxin Yang , Yan Cai , Xuemiao Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding plays a crucial role in enhancing the capabilities of Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents. While general VLMs, such as GPT-4V, demonstrate strong performance across various tasks, their proficiency in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Anthony Nguyen

Grounding language in vision is an active field of research seeking to construct cognitively plausible word and sentence representations by incorporating perceptual knowledge from vision into text-based representations. Despite many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Hassan Shahmohammadi , Maria Heitmeier , Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Harald Baayen

Visual grounding aims to align visual information of specific regions of images with corresponding natural language expressions. Current visual grounding methods leverage pre-trained visual and language backbones independently to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiaxi Wang , Wenhui Hu , Xueyang Liu , Beihu Wu , Yuting Qiu , YingYing Cai

Reducing the representational discrepancy between source and target domains is a key component to maximize the model generalization. In this work, we advocate for leveraging natural language supervision for the domain generalization task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Seonwoo Min , Nokyung Park , Siwon Kim , Seunghyun Park , Jinkyu Kim

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

We present lazy visual grounding, a two-stage approach of unsupervised object mask discovery followed by object grounding, for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Plenty of the previous art casts this task as pixel-to-text classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

Visual grounding (VG) typically focuses on locating regions of interest within an image using natural language, and most existing VG methods are limited to single-image interpretations. This limits their applicability in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Wenxuan Wang , Zijia Zhao , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Erdong Hu , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Given a textual phrase and an image, the visual grounding problem is the task of locating the content of the image referenced by the sentence. It is a challenging task that has several real-world applications in human-computer interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Davide Rigoni , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Sperduti

Information retrieval lies at the foundation of the modern digital industry. While natural language search has seen dramatic progress in recent years largely driven by embedding-based models and large-scale pretraining, the field still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Adrià Molina , Oriol Ramos Terrades , Josep Lladós

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

Generalization is a pivotal challenge for agents following natural language instructions. To approach this goal, we leverage a vision-language model (VLM) for visual grounding and transfer its vision-language knowledge into reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Haobin Jiang , Zongqing Lu