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In natural language processing, most models try to learn semantic representations merely from texts. The learned representations encode the distributional semantics but fail to connect to any knowledge about the physical world. In contrast,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yizhen Zhang , Minkyu Choi , Kuan Han , Zhongming Liu

This work addresses the task of open world semantic segmentation using RGBD sensing to discover new semantic classes over time. Although there are many types of objects in the real-word, current semantic segmentation methods make a closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yoshikatsu Nakajima , Byeongkeun Kang , Hideo Saito , Kris Kitani

Several accounts of human cognition posit that our intelligence is rooted in our ability to form abstract composable concepts, ground them in our environment, and reason over these grounded entities. This trifecta of human thought has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Bhishma Dedhia , Niraj K. Jha

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

Humans effortlessly infer the 3D shape of objects. What computations underlie this ability? Although various computational models have been proposed, none of them capture the human ability to match object shape across viewpoints. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thomas P. O'Connell , Tyler Bonnen , Yoni Friedman , Ayush Tewari , Josh B. Tenenbaum , Vincent Sitzmann , Nancy Kanwisher

Service robots should be able to interact naturally with non-expert human users, not only to help them in various tasks but also to receive guidance in order to resolve ambiguities that might be present in the instruction. We consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

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

Precise spatial understanding from multi-view images remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), as their visual representations are predominantly semantic and lack explicit geometric grounding. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chanyoung Gwak , Yoonwoo Jeong , Byungwoo Jeon , Hyunseok Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Minsu Cho

Recent advancements in 3D perception systems have significantly improved their ability to perform visual recognition tasks such as segmentation. However, these systems still heavily rely on explicit human instruction to identify target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Amrin Kareem , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

3D Cloth modeling and simulation is essential for avatars creation in several fields, such as fashion, entertainment, and animation. Achieving high-quality results is challenging due to the large variability of clothed body especially in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Davide Garavaso , Federico Masi , Pietro Musoni , Umberto Castellani

A unique aspect of human visual understanding is the ability to flexibly interpret abstract concepts: acquiring lifted rules explaining what they symbolize, grounding them across familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and making predictions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Joy Hsu , Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Noah D. Goodman , Jiajun Wu

To endow machines with the ability to perceive the real-world in a three dimensional representation as we do as humans is a fundamental and long-standing topic in Artificial Intelligence. Given different types of visual inputs such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Yang

We investigate ways to compose complex concepts in texts from primitive ones while grounding them in images. We propose Concept and Relation Graph (CRG), which builds on top of constituency analysis and consists of recursively combined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Bowen Zhang , Hexiang Hu , Linlu Qiu , Peter Shaw , Fei Sha

One major goal of vision is to infer physical models of objects, surfaces, and their layout from sensors. In this paper, we aim to interpret indoor scenes from one RGBD image. Our representation encodes the layout of orthogonal walls and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Chuhang Zou , Ruiqi Guo , Zhizhong Li , Derek Hoiem

We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

Understanding and localizing objects in complex 3D environments from natural language descriptions, known as 3D Visual Grounding (3DVG), is a foundational challenge in embodied AI, with broad implications for robotics, augmented reality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaxi Zhang , Yunheng Wang , Wei Lu , Taowen Wang , Weisheng Xu , Shuning Zhang , Yixiao Feng , Yuetong Fang , Renjing Xu

We present a method to map 2D image observations of a scene to a persistent 3D scene representation, enabling novel view synthesis and disentangled representation of the movable and immovable components of the scene. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Prafull Sharma , Ayush Tewari , Yilun Du , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Vincent Sitzmann

Grounding referring expressions in RGBD image has been an emerging field. We present a novel task of 3D visual grounding in single-view RGBD image where the referred objects are often only partially scanned due to occlusion. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Haolin Liu , Anran Lin , Xiaoguang Han , Lei Yang , Yizhou Yu , Shuguang Cui

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

We address the key question of how object part representations can be found from the internal states of CNNs that are trained for high-level tasks, such as object classification. This work provides a new unsupervised method to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jianyu Wang , Zhishuai Zhang , Cihang Xie , Vittal Premachandran , Alan Yuille