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We introduce a unified framework to jointly model images, text, and human attention traces. Our work is built on top of the recent Localized Narratives annotation framework [30], where each word of a given caption is paired with a mouse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zihang Meng , Licheng Yu , Ning Zhang , Tamara Berg , Babak Damavandi , Vikas Singh , Amy Bearman

3D visual grounding (3DVG) involves localizing entities in a 3D scene referred to by natural language text. Such models are useful for embodied AI and scene retrieval applications, which involve searching for objects or patterns using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Austin T. Wang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize temporal segments in long, untrimmed videos that align with a given natural language query. This task typically comprises two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to locate the most relevant region in an image, based on a flexible natural language query but not a pre-defined label, thus it can be a more useful technique than object detection in practice. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu , Guanghui Xu , Zhuliang Yu , Yanwu Xu , Kui Jia , Mingkui Tan

The control of robots for manipulation tasks generally relies on visual input. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable the use of natural language instructions to condition visual input and control robots in a wider range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenglin Cui , Chaoran Zhu , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

Visual tracking addresses the problem of identifying and localizing an unknown target in a video given the target specified by a bounding box in the first frame. In this paper, we propose a dual network to better utilize features among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Zhizhen Chi , Hongyang Li , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Reducing the representational discrepancy between source and target domains is a key component to maximize the model generalization. In this work, we advocate for leveraging natural language supervision for the domain generalization task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Seonwoo Min , Nokyung Park , Siwon Kim , Seunghyun Park , Jinkyu Kim

How to combine the complementary capabilities of an ensemble of different algorithms has been of central interest in visual object tracking. A significant progress on such a problem has been achieved, but considering short-term tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Matteo Dunnhofer , Christian Micheloni

We propose a novel visual tracking algorithm based on the representations from a discriminatively trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our algorithm pretrains a CNN using a large set of videos with tracking ground-truths to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Hyeonseob Nam , Bohyung Han

Natural language spatial video grounding aims to detect the relevant objects in video frames with descriptive sentences as the query. In spite of the great advances, most existing methods rely on dense video frame annotations, which require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mengze Li , Tianbao Wang , Haoyu Zhang , Shengyu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jiaxu Miao , Wenqiao Zhang , Wenming Tan , Jin Wang , Peng Wang , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu

Visual object tracking is an important task in computer vision, which has many real-world applications, e.g., video surveillance, visual navigation. Visual object tracking also has many challenges, e.g., object occlusion and deformation. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Ruize Han , Wei Feng , Qing Guo , Qinghua Hu

To solve video-and-language grounding tasks, the key is for the network to understand the connection between the two modalities. For a pair of video and language description, their semantic relation is reflected by their encodings'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yubo Zhang , Feiyang Niu , Qing Ping , Govind Thattai

Visual-language grounding aims to establish semantic correspondences between natural language and visual entities, enabling models to accurately identify and localize target objects based on textual instructions. Existing VLG approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Ying Shen

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to localize the temporal segment which is semantically aligned with a natural language query in an untrimmed video.Most existing methods extract frame-grained features or object-grained features by 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zeyu Xiong , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Jiahao Zhu

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on estimating trajectories of all objects in a video, without selectively reasoning about user-specified targets under semantic instructions. In this work, we introduce a query-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tajamul Ashraf , Tavaheed Tariq , Sonia Yadav , Abrar Ul Riyaz , Wasif Tak , Moloud Abdar , Janibul Bashir

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

In this paper, we present a simple, flexible and effective vision-language (VL) tracking pipeline, termed \textbf{MMTrack}, which casts VL tracking as a token generation task. Traditional paradigms address VL tracking task indirectly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Guorong Li , Rongrong Ji , Xianxian Li

Tracking-by-detection is a very popular framework for single object tracking which attempts to search the target object within a local search window for each frame. Although such local search mechanism works well on simple videos, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xiao Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

Visual grounding, a task to ground (i.e., localize) natural language in images, essentially requires composite visual reasoning. However, existing methods over-simplify the composite nature of language into a monolithic sentence embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Feng Wu , Zheng-Jun Zha