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Visual grounding (VG) aims to locate a specific target in an image based on a given language query. The discriminative information from context is important for distinguishing the target from other objects, particularly for the targets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wei Tang , Liang Li , Xuejing Liu , Lu Jin , Jinhui Tang , Zechao Li

There are thousands of actively spoken languages on Earth, but a single visual world. Grounding in this visual world has the potential to bridge the gap between all these languages. Our goal is to use visual grounding to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Gunnar A. Sigurdsson , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aida Nematzadeh , Lucas Smaira , Mateusz Malinowski , João Carreira , Phil Blunsom , Andrew Zisserman

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

Multiple works have emerged to push the boundaries of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) towards pixel-level understanding. The current trend is to train MLLMs with pixel-level grounding supervision in terms of masks on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mennatullah Siam

Multi-task visual grounding involves the simultaneous execution of localization and segmentation in images based on textual expressions. The majority of advanced methods predominantly focus on transformer-based multimodal fusion, aiming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ming Dai , Jian Li , Jiedong Zhuang , Xian Zhang , Wankou Yang

Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 L'ea Dubois , Klaus Schmidt , Chengyu Wang , Ji-Hoon Park , Lin Wang , Santiago Munoz

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

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

Visual agent models for automating human activities on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have emerged as a promising research direction, driven by advances in large Vision Language Models (VLMs). A critical challenge in GUI automation is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Joonhyung Park , Peng Tang , Sagnik Das , Srikar Appalaraju , Kunwar Yashraj Singh , R. Manmatha , Shabnam Ghadar

Vision-Language (VL) models have gained significant research focus, enabling remarkable advances in multimodal reasoning. These architectures typically comprise a vision encoder, a Large Language Model (LLM), and a projection module that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Roy Ganz , Yair Kittenplon , Aviad Aberdam , Elad Ben Avraham , Oren Nuriel , Shai Mazor , Ron Litman

Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as powerful generalist tools for remote sensing, capable of integrating information across diverse tasks and enabling flexible, instruction-based interactions via a chat interface. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Aysim Toker , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

Camouflaged object detection (COD), which aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves into the surroundings, has recently drawn increasing research efforts in the field of computer vision. In practice, the success of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Geng Chen , Xinrui Chen , Bo Dong , Mingchen Zhuge , Yongxiong Wang , Hongbo Bi , Jian Chen , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Distributional semantic models capture word-level meaning that is useful in many natural language processing tasks and have even been shown to capture cognitive aspects of word meaning. The majority of these models are purely text based,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Danny Merkx , Stefan L. Frank , Mirjam Ernestus

Visual grounding, i.e., localizing objects in images according to natural language queries, is an important topic in visual language understanding. The most effective approaches for this task are based on deep learning, which generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haojun Jiang , Yuanze Lin , Dongchen Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

We propose a Vision-Language Transformer (VLT) framework for referring segmentation to facilitate deep interactions among multi-modal information and enhance the holistic understanding to vision-language features. There are different ways…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Visual context provides grounding information for multimodal machine translation (MMT). However, previous MMT models and probing studies on visual features suggest that visual information is less explored in MMT as it is often redundant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Dexin Wang , Deyi Xiong

Recent advances in multimodal large language models(MLLMs) have led to remarkable progress in visual grounding, enabling fine-grained cross-modal alignment between textual queries and image regions. However, transferring such capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Luxiao Xu , Jinliang Lin , Zonghao Guo , Fengxiang Wang , Xue Yang , Kaiwen Wei , Lei Wang

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

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Visual grounding is an essential capability of Visual Language Models (VLMs) to understand the real physical world. Previous state-of-the-art grounding visual language models usually have large model sizes, making them heavy for deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Guanqi Zhan , Changye Li , Zhijian Liu , Yao Lu , Yi Wu , Song Han , Ligeng Zhu