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Single object tracking aims to locate one specific target in video sequences, given its initial state. Classical trackers rely solely on visual cues, restricting their ability to handle challenges such as appearance variations, ambiguity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jiawei Ge , Xiangmei Chen , Jiuxin Cao , Xuelin Zhu , Bo Liu

Understanding natural-language references to objects in dynamic 3D driving scenes is essential for interactive autonomous systems. In practice, many referring expressions describe targets through recent motion or short-term interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiahong Yu , Ziqi Wang , Hailiang Zhao , Wei Zhai , Xueqiang Yan , Shuiguang Deng

Visual grounding is a promising path toward more robust and accurate Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. Many multimodal extensions of BERT (e.g., VideoBERT, LXMERT, VL-BERT) allow a joint modeling of texts and images that lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Damien Sileo

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

A main challenge of Visual-Language Tracking (VLT) is the misalignment between visual inputs and language descriptions caused by target movement. Previous trackers have explored many effective feature modification methods to preserve more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yihao Zhen , Qiang Wang , Yu Qiao , Liangqiong Qu , Huijie Fan

Visual Language Tracking (VLT) enhances tracking by mitigating the limitations of relying solely on the visual modality, utilizing high-level semantic information through language. This integration of the language enables more advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu , Xiaokun Feng , Dailing Zhang , Meiqi Wu , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

The consistency between the semantic information provided by the multi-modal reference and the tracked object is crucial for visual-language (VL) tracking. However, existing VL tracking frameworks rely on static multi-modal references to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiaohai Li , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Jian Nong , Shuxiang Song

3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo

UAV-ground visual tracking (UGVT) aims to simultaneously track the same object from both the UAV and the ground view. However, existing two-stream methods suffer from isolated feature extraction and rely heavily on implicit appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Boyue Xu , Ruichao Hou , Tongwei Ren , Gangshan Wu

Visual grounding aims to localize the object referred to in an image based on a natural language query. Although progress has been made recently, accurately localizing target objects within multiple-instance distractions (multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Jiahua Zhang , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Visual object tracking aims to localize the target object of each frame based on its initial appearance in the first frame. Depending on the input modility, tracking tasks can be divided into RGB tracking and RGB+X (e.g. RGB+N, and RGB+D)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Lingyi Hong , Shilin Yan , Renrui Zhang , Wanyun Li , Xinyu Zhou , Pinxue Guo , Kaixun Jiang , Yiting Chen , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

Visual object tracking aims to locate a targeted object in a video sequence based on an initial bounding box. Recently, Vision-Language~(VL) trackers have proposed to utilize additional natural language descriptions to enhance versatility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yiming Sun , Fan Yu , Shaoxiang Chen , Yu Zhang , Junwei Huang , Chenhui Li , Yang Li , Changbo Wang

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

We address the problem of jointly learning vision and language to understand the object in a fine-grained manner. The key idea of our approach is the use of object descriptions to provide the detailed understanding of an object. Based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Anh Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Ian Reid , Darwin G. Caldwell , Nikos G. Tsagarakis

We propose FindIt, a simple and versatile framework that unifies a variety of visual grounding and localization tasks including referring expression comprehension, text-based localization, and object detection. Key to our architecture is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Weicheng Kuo , Fred Bertsch , Wei Li , AJ Piergiovanni , Mohammad Saffar , Anelia Angelova

The human language is one of the most natural interfaces for humans to interact with robots. This paper presents a robot system that retrieves everyday objects with unconstrained natural language descriptions. A core issue for the system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

LVLMs have been shown to perform excellently in image-level tasks such as VQA and caption. However, in many instance-level tasks, such as visual grounding and object detection, LVLMs still show performance gaps compared to previous expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Teng Fu , Mengyang Zhao , Ke Niu , Kaixin Peng , Bin Li

We propose a new task and model for dense video object captioning -- detecting, tracking and captioning trajectories of objects in a video. This task unifies spatial and temporal localization in video, whilst also requiring fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xingyi Zhou , Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), which aims to ground target clips from videos (such as consecutive intervals or disjoint shots) according to custom language queries (e.g., sentences or words), is key for video browsing on social media. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Joya Chen , Shraman Pramanick , Difei Gao , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Rui Yan , Mike Zheng Shou