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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to identify visual frames in a video clip that match text queries. Recent studies in VTG employ cross-attention to correlate visual frames and text queries as individual token sequences. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jongbhin Woo , Hyeonggon Ryu , Youngjoon Jang , Jae Won Cho , Joon Son Chung

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

Visual Grounding (VG) is a crucial topic in the field of vision and language, which involves locating a specific region described by expressions within an image. To reduce the reliance on manually labeled data, unsupervised visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Fang Peng , Ming Yan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Multimodal large language models often struggle with faithful reasoning in complex visual scenes, where intricate entities and relations require precise visual grounding at each step. This reasoning unfaithfulness frequently manifests as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chuhan Wang , Xintong Li , Jennifer Yuntong Zhang , Junda Wu , Chengkai Huang , Lina Yao , Julian McAuley , Jingbo Shang

The evaluation of text-generative vision-language models is a challenging yet crucial endeavor. By addressing the limitations of existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmarks and proposing innovative evaluation methodologies, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Simon Ging , María A. Bravo , Thomas Brox

Modeling semantic information is helpful for scene text recognition. In this work, we propose to model semantic and visual information jointly with a Visual-Semantic Transformer (VST). The VST first explicitly extracts primary semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xin Tang , Yongquan Lai , Ying Liu , Yuanyuan Fu , Rui Fang

Remote sensing (RS) large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown strong promise across visual grounding (VG) tasks. However, existing RS VG datasets predominantly rely on explicit referring expressions-such as relative position, relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Jue Chen , Zilun Zhang , Penghui Huang , Ran Ding , Zhentao Zou , PengFei Gao , Yuchen Wei , Ke Li , Xue Yang , Xue Jiang , Hongxin Yang , Jonathan Li

Medical Visual Grounding (MVG) aims to identify diagnostically relevant phrases from free-text radiology reports and localize their corresponding regions in medical images, providing interpretable visual evidence to support clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yifan Gao , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou , Ke Zou , Yizhe Zhang , Huazhu Fu

Visual grounding (VG) typically focuses on locating regions of interest within an image using natural language, and most existing VG methods are limited to single-image interpretations. This limits their applicability in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Wenxuan Wang , Zijia Zhao , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Erdong Hu , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize target objects within a 3D scene based on natural language queries. To alleviate the reliance on costly 3D training data, recent studies have explored zero-shot 3DVG by leveraging the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zhao Jin , Rong-Cheng Tu , Jingyi Liao , Wenhao Sun , Xiao Luo , Shunyu Liu , Dacheng Tao

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

Existing Scene Text Recognition (STR) methods typically use a language model to optimize the joint probability of the 1D character sequence predicted by a visual recognition (VR) model, which ignore the 2D spatial context of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yue He , Chen Chen , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Fengxiang He , Chaoyue Wang , Bo Du

Zero-shot scene understanding in real-world settings presents major challenges due to the complexity and variability of natural scenes, where models must recognize new objects, actions, and contexts without prior labeled examples. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

Visual dialog is challenging since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions based on understanding the visual environment. How to ground related visual objects is one of the key problems. Previous studies utilize the question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Feilong Chen , Xiuyi Chen , Can Xu , Daxin Jiang

Understanding realistic visual scene images together with language descriptions is a fundamental task towards generic visual understanding. Previous works have shown compelling comprehensive results by building hierarchical structures for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Chao Lou , Wenjuan Han , Yuhuan Lin , Zilong Zheng

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

Despite significant progress in multimodal language models (LMs), it remains unclear whether visual grounding enhances their understanding of embodied knowledge compared to text-only models. To address this question, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhihui Yang , Yupei Wang , Kaijie Mo , Zhe Zhao , Renfen Hu

Semantic matching aims to establish pixel-level correspondences between instances of the same category and represents a fundamental task in computer vision. Existing approaches suffer from two limitations: (i) Geometric Ambiguity: Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Songlin Yang , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zeqi Xiao , Anyi Rao , Xingang Pan

Spatial intelligence requires visual representations that capture both semantic objects and geometric structure in the physical world. To support this, two major pre-training schemes are now widely used as foundation backbones:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Kangjia Zhao , Jianwei Yin

Models like OpenAI-o3 pioneer visual grounded reasoning by dynamically referencing visual regions, just like human "thinking with images". However, no benchmark exists to evaluate these capabilities holistically. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Haochen Wang , Xiangtai Li , Zilong Huang , Anran Wang , Jiacong Wang , Tao Zhang , Jiani Zheng , Sule Bai , Zijian Kang , Jiashi Feng , Zhuochen Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang