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We introduce Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation (R3DGS), a new task that aims to segment target objects in a 3D Gaussian scene based on natural language descriptions, which often contain spatial relationships or object attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuting He , Guangquan Jie , Changshuo Wang , Yun Zhou , Shuming Hu , Guanbin Li , Henghui Ding

Embodied scene understanding requires not only comprehending visual-spatial information that has been observed but also determining where to explore next in the 3D physical world. Existing 3D Vision-Language (3D-VL) models primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyu Zhu , Xilin Wang , Yixuan Li , Zhuofan Zhang , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Wei Liang , Qian Yu , Zhidong Deng , Siyuan Huang , Qing Li

3D visual grounding (3DVG) is a critical task in scene understanding that aims to identify objects in 3D scenes based on text descriptions. However, existing methods rely on separately pre-trained vision and text encoders, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yinuo Zheng , Lipeng Gu , Honghua Chen , Liangliang Nan , Mingqiang Wei

Different from Object Detection, Visual Grounding deals with detecting a bounding box for each text-image pair. This one box for each text-image data provides sparse supervision signals. Although previous works achieve impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Gaowen Liu , Mubarak Shah , Yan Yan

Compared with the visual grounding on 2D images, the natural-language-guided 3D object localization on point clouds is more challenging. In this paper, we propose a new model, named InstanceRefer, to achieve a superior 3D visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Zhihao Yuan , Xu Yan , Yinghong Liao , Ruimao Zhang , Sheng Wang , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui

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

3D visual grounding aims at grounding a natural language description about a 3D scene, usually represented in the form of 3D point clouds, to the targeted object region. Point clouds are sparse, noisy, and contain limited semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhengyuan Yang , Songyang Zhang , Liwei Wang , Jiebo Luo

Visual grounding (VG) aims to localize target objects in an image based on natural language descriptions. In this paper, we propose AerialVG, a new task focusing on visual grounding from aerial views. Compared to traditional VG, AerialVG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Junli Liu , Qizhi Chen , Zhigang Wang , Yiwen Tang , Yiting Zhang , Chi Yan , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Bin Zhao

We address the problem of phrase grounding by lear ing a multi-level common semantic space shared by the textual and visual modalities. We exploit multiple levels of feature maps of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hassan Akbari , Svebor Karaman , Surabhi Bhargava , Brian Chen , Carl Vondrick , Shih-Fu Chang

Open-vocabulary detectors are proposed to locate and recognize objects in novel classes. However, variations in vision-aware language vocabulary data used for open-vocabulary learning can lead to unfair and unreliable evaluations. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ying Liu , Yijing Hua , Haojiang Chai , Yanbo Wang , TengQi Ye

Enabling intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with 3D environments through natural language is crucial for advancing robotics and human-computer interaction. A fundamental task in this field is ego-centric 3D visual grounding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Henry Zheng , Hao Shi , Qihang Peng , Yong Xien Chng , Rui Huang , Yepeng Weng , Zhongchao Shi , Gao Huang

This paper addresses the problem of 3D referring expression comprehension (REC) in autonomous driving scenario, which aims to ground a natural language to the targeted region in LiDAR point clouds. Previous approaches for REC usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wenhao Cheng , Junbo Yin , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

When connecting objects and their language referents in an embodied 3D environment, it is important to note that: (1) an object can be better characterized by leveraging comparative information between itself and other objects, and (2) an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Chancharik Mitra , Abrar Anwar , Rodolfo Corona , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell , Jesse Thomason

3D visual grounding (3DVG) aims to localize objects in a 3D scene based on natural language queries. In this work, we explore zero-shot 3DVG from multi-view images alone, without requiring any geometric supervision or object priors. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nikita Drozdov , Andrey Lemeshko , Nikita Gavrilov , Anton Konushin , Danila Rukhovich , Maksim Kolodiazhnyi

Remote Sensing Visual Grounding (RSVG) aims to localize target objects in large-scale aerial imagery based on natural language descriptions. Owing to the vast spatial scale and high semantic ambiguity of remote sensing scenes, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shiqi Huang , Shuting He , Bihan Wen

Temporal sentence grounding aims to localize a target segment in an untrimmed video semantically according to a given sentence query. Most previous works focus on learning frame-level features of each whole frame in the entire video, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Daizong Liu , Xiang Fang , Wei Hu , Pan Zhou

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

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

In this paper, we introduce a new task: Zero-Shot 3D Reasoning Segmentation for parts searching and localization for objects, which is a new paradigm to 3D segmentation that transcends limitations for previous category-specific 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Tianrun Chen , Chunan Yu , Jing Li , Jianqi Zhang , Lanyun Zhu , Deyi Ji , Yong Zhang , Ying Zang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun

Grounding (i.e. localizing) arbitrary, free-form textual phrases in visual content is a challenging problem with many applications for human-computer interaction and image-text reference resolution. Few datasets provide the ground truth…

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