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Accurately grounding regions of interest (ROIs) is critical for diagnosis and treatment planning in medical imaging. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) combine visual perception with natural language, current medical-grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhonghao Yan , Muxi Diao , Yuxuan Yang , Ruoyan Jing , Jiayuan Xu , Kaizhou Zhang , Lele Yang , Yanxi Liu , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Highlighting particularly relevant regions of an image can improve the performance of vision-language models (VLMs) on various vision-language (VL) tasks by guiding the model to attend more closely to these regions of interest. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 David Wan , Jaemin Cho , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal

Today's most accurate language models are trained on orders of magnitude more language data than human language learners receive - but with no supervision from other sensory modalities that play a crucial role in human learning. Can we make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Chengxu Zhuang , Evelina Fedorenko , Jacob Andreas

We propose a weakly-supervised approach that takes image-sentence pairs as input and learns to visually ground (i.e., localize) arbitrary linguistic phrases, in the form of spatial attention masks. Specifically, the model is trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Fanyi Xiao , Leonid Sigal , Yong Jae Lee

The phrase grounding task aims to ground each entity mention in a given caption of an image to a corresponding region in that image. Although there are clear dependencies between how different mentions of the same caption should be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jiacheng Liu , Julia Hockenmaier

We present Catalog Phrase Grounding (CPG), a model that can associate product textual data (title, brands) into corresponding regions of product images (isolated product region, brand logo region) for e-commerce vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Wenyi Wu , Karim Bouyarmane , Ismail Tutar

Panoramic Narrative Grounding (PNG) is an emerging visual grounding task that aims to segment visual objects in images based on dense narrative captions. The current state-of-the-art methods first refine the representation of phrase by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yiming Lin , Xiao-Bo Jin , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang

Grounding free-form textual queries necessitates an understanding of these textual phrases and its relation to the visual cues to reliably reason about the described locations. Spatial attention networks are known to learn this relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amar Shrestha , Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol , Haowen Fang , Qinru Qiu

Phrase Grounding aims to detect and localize objects in images that are referred to and are queried by natural language phrases. Phrase grounding finds applications in tasks such as Visual Dialog, Visual Search and Image-text co-reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Rama Kovvuri , Ram Nevatia

Despite significant advancements in adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) for radiology report generation (RRG), clinical adoption remains challenging due to difficulties in accurately mapping pathological and anatomical features to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Qilong Xing , Zikai Song , Youjia Zhang , Na Feng , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang

Panoptic Narrative Grounding (PNG) is an emerging task whose goal is to segment visual objects of things and stuff categories described by dense narrative captions of a still image. The previous two-stage approach first extracts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Zihan Ding , Zi-han Ding , Tianrui Hui , Junshi Huang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei , Si Liu

Medical visual grounding serves as a crucial foundation for fine-grained multimodal reasoning and interpretable clinical decision support. Despite recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) for grounding tasks, existing approaches such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guangjing Yang , Ziyuan Qin , Chaoran Zhang , Chenlin Du , Jinlin Wang , Wanran Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , Bing Ji , Qicheng Lao

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task in numerous medical engineering applications. Recently, language-guided segmentation has shown promise in medical scenarios where textual clinical reports are readily available as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mingjian Li , Mingyuan Meng , Shuchang Ye , Michael Fulham , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

We address the problem of grounding free-form textual phrases by using weak supervision from image-caption pairs. We propose a novel end-to-end model that uses caption-to-image retrieval as a `downstream' task to guide the process of phrase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Samyak Datta , Karan Sikka , Anirban Roy , Karuna Ahuja , Devi Parikh , Ajay Divakaran

Semantic segmentation (i.e. image parsing) aims to annotate each image pixel with its corresponding semantic class label. Spatially consistent labeling of the image requires an accurate description and modeling of the local contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hasan F. Ates , Sercan Sunetci

Key to tasks that require reasoning about natural language in visual contexts is grounding words and phrases to image regions. However, observing this grounding in contemporary models is complex, even if it is generally expected to take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Noriyuki Kojima , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Yoav Artzi

Video Paragraph Grounding (VPG) aims to precisely locate the most appropriate moments within a video that are relevant to a given textual paragraph query. However, existing methods typically rely on large-scale annotated temporal labels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Mengzhao Wang , Huafeng Li , Yafei Zhang , Jinxing Li , Minghong Xie , Dapeng Tao

Phrase localization is a task that studies the mapping from textual phrases to regions of an image. Given difficulties in annotating phrase-to-object datasets at scale, we develop a Multimodal Alignment Framework (MAF) to leverage more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qinxin Wang , Hao Tan , Sheng Shen , Michael W. Mahoney , Zhewei Yao

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

Recently, large models have shown significant potential for smart healthcare. However, the deployment of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) for clinical services is currently hindered by three critical challenges: a tendency to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Siyong Chen , Jinbo Wen , Jiawen Kang , Tenghui Huang , Xumin Huang , Yuanjia Su , Hudan Pan , Zishao Zhong , Dusit Niyato , Shengli Xie , Dong In Kim