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One of the central problems in computer vision is the detection of semantically important objects and the estimation of their pose. Most of the work in object detection has been based on single image processing and its performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Nikolay Atanasov , Bharath Sankaran , Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas , Kostas Daniilidis

Language-guided active sensing is a robotics subtask where a robot with an onboard sensor interacts efficiently with the environment via object manipulation to maximize perceptual information, following given language instructions. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Weihan Chen , Hanwen Ren , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Vision-Language MOT is a crucial tracking problem and has drawn increasing attention recently. It aims to track objects based on human language commands, replacing the traditional use of templates or pre-set information from training sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yunhao Li , Xiaoqiong Liu , Luke Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

We present VLPG-Nav, a visual language navigation method for guiding robots to specified objects within household scenes. Unlike existing methods primarily focused on navigating the robot toward objects, our approach considers the…

We envision robots that can collaborate and communicate seamlessly with humans. It is necessary for such robots to decide both what to say and how to act, while interacting with humans. To this end, we introduce a new task, dialogue object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Monica Roy , Kaiyu Zheng , Jason Liu , Stefanie Tellex

We address the problem of weakly supervised object localization where only image-level annotations are available for training object detectors. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem through mining object proposals.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Dong Li , Jia-Bin Huang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visually-grounded spoken language datasets can enable models to learn cross-modal correspondences with very weak supervision. However, modern audio-visual datasets contain biases that undermine the real-world performance of models trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ian Palmer , Andrew Rouditchenko , Andrei Barbu , Boris Katz , James Glass

Multimodal supervision has achieved promising results in many visual language understanding tasks, where the language plays an essential role as a hint or context for recognizing and locating instances. However, due to the defects of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Weixin Feng , Xingyuan Bu , Chenchen Zhang , Xubin Li

Object referring has important applications, especially for human-machine interaction. While having received great attention, the task is mainly attacked with written language (text) as input rather than spoken language (speech), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

We study the problem of learning a range of vision-based manipulation tasks from a large offline dataset of robot interaction. In order to accomplish this, humans need easy and effective ways of specifying tasks to the robot. Goal images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Suraj Nair , Eric Mitchell , Kevin Chen , Brian Ichter , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

Despite their impressive performance on multi-modal tasks, large vision-language models (LVLMs) tend to suffer from hallucinations. An important type is object hallucination, where LVLMs generate objects that are inconsistent with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shounak Datta , Dhanasekar Sundararaman

Tracking by natural language specification is a new rising research topic that aims at locating the target object in the video sequence based on its language description. Compared with traditional bounding box (BBox) based tracking, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xiao Wang , Xiujun Shu , Zhipeng Zhang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

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

Image captioning models have lately shown impressive results when applied to standard datasets. Switching to real-life scenarios, however, constitutes a challenge due to the larger variety of visual concepts which are not covered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marco Cagrandi , Marcella Cornia , Matteo Stefanini , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Despite recent advancements in computer vision research, object detection in aerial images still suffers from several challenges. One primary challenge to be mitigated is the presence of multiple types of variation in aerial images, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Beomchan Park , Yong Man Ro

Despite the remarkable accuracy of deep neural networks in object detection, they are costly to train and scale due to supervision requirements. Particularly, learning more object categories typically requires proportionally more bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Alireza Zareian , Kevin Dela Rosa , Derek Hao Hu , Shih-Fu Chang

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

The Multi-Object Search (MOS) problem involves navigating to a sequence of locations to maximize the likelihood of finding target objects while minimizing travel costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to the MOS problem, called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Daniel Choi , Angus Fung , Haitong Wang , Aaron Hao Tan

Huge image data sets are the fundament for the development of the perception of automated driving systems. A large number of images is necessary to train robust neural networks that can cope with diverse situations. A sufficiently large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Philipp Rigoll , Jacob Langner , Eric Sax

Although existing multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms have obtained competitive performance on various benchmarks, almost all of them train and validate models on the same domain. The domain generalization problem of MOT is hardly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 En Yu , Songtao Liu , Zhuoling Li , Jinrong Yang , Zeming li , Shoudong Han , Wenbing Tao