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Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Visual grounding is the task of locating objects specified by natural language expressions. Existing methods extend generic object detection frameworks to tackle this task. They typically extract visual and textual features separately using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ruilin Yao , Shengwu Xiong , Yichen Zhao , Yi Rong

Visual grounding is a common vision task that involves grounding descriptive sentences to the corresponding regions of an image. Most existing methods use independent image-text encoding and apply complex hand-crafted modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ming Dai , Lingfeng Yang , Yihao Xu , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel Question-Guided Hybrid Convolution (QGHC) network for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Most state-of-the-art VQA methods fuse the high-level textual and visual features from the neural network and abandon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Peng Gao , Pan Lu , Hongsheng Li , Shuang Li , Yikang Li , Steven Hoi , Xiaogang Wang

Unlike Object Detection, Visual Grounding task necessitates the detection of an object described by complex free-form language. To simultaneously model such complex semantic and visual representations, recent state-of-the-art studies adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Luowei Zhou , Junyi Wu , Changchang Sun , Yan Yan

Although fusing multiple sensor modalities can enhance object detection performance, existing fusion approaches often overlook subtle variations in environmental conditions and sensor inputs. As a result, they struggle to adaptively weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Aditya Taparia , Noel Ngu , Mario Leiva , Joshua Shay Kricheli , John Corcoran , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Gerardo Simari , Paulo Shakarian , Ransalu Senanayake

In this work, we explore neat yet effective Transformer-based frameworks for visual grounding. The previous methods generally address the core problem of visual grounding, i.e., multi-modal fusion and reasoning, with manually-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Daqing Liu , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Yanyong Zhang , Houqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang

Referring expression grounding is an important and challenging task in computer vision. To avoid the laborious annotation in conventional referring grounding, unpaired referring grounding is introduced, where the training data only contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Jianfei Cai

Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

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

In this paper, we present a neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image. The state-of-the-art methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task -- given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu Zhao , Wei-Ning Chen , Huseyin Atahan Inan , Samuel Kessler , Lu Wang , Lukas Wutschitz , Fangkai Yang , Chaoyun Zhang , Pasquale Minervini , Saravan Rajmohan , Robert Sim

In this paper, we propose a transformer based approach for visual grounding. Unlike previous proposal-and-rank frameworks that rely heavily on pretrained object detectors or proposal-free frameworks that upgrade an off-the-shelf one-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Visual grounding focuses on establishing fine-grained alignment between vision and natural language, which has essential applications in multimodal reasoning systems. Existing methods use pre-trained query-agnostic visual backbones to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jiabo Ye , Junfeng Tian , Ming Yan , Xiaoshan Yang , Xuwu Wang , Ji Zhang , Liang He , Xin Lin

The challenge of visual grounding and masking in multimodal machine translation (MMT) systems has encouraged varying approaches to the detection and selection of visually-grounded text tokens for masking. We introduce new methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Braeden Bowen , Vipin Vijayan , Scott Grigsby , Timothy Anderson , Jeremy Gwinnup

3D visual grounding is the task of localizing the object in a 3D scene which is referred by a description in natural language. With a wide range of applications ranging from autonomous indoor robotics to AR/VR, the task has recently risen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Suman Saha , Luc Van Gool

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
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