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Most multimodal large language models (MLLMs) learn language-to-object grounding through causal language modeling where grounded objects are captured by bounding boxes as sequences of location tokens. This paradigm lacks pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yichi Zhang , Ziqiao Ma , Xiaofeng Gao , Suhaila Shakiah , Qiaozi Gao , Joyce Chai

Accurate and robust localization is a critical enabler for emerging 5G and 6G applications, including autonomous driving, extended reality (XR), and smart manufacturing. While data-driven approaches have shown promise, most existing models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Guangjin Pan , Kaixuan Huang , Hui Chen , Shunqing Zhang , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch

Humans can robustly localize visual evidence and provide grounded answers even in noisy environments by identifying critical cues and then relating them to the full context in a bottom-up manner. Inspired by this, we propose DeepScan, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yangfu Li , Hongjian Zhan , Jiawei Chen , Yuning Gong , Qi Liu , Yue Lu

Building models that comprehends videos and responds specific user instructions is a practical and challenging topic, as it requires mastery of both vision understanding and knowledge reasoning. Compared to language and image modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ji Qi , Kaixuan Ji , Jifan Yu , Duokang Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Referential grounding in outdoor driving scenes is challenging due to large scene variability, many visually similar objects, and dynamic elements that complicate resolving natural-language references (e.g., "the black car on the right").…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Pranav Saxena , Avigyan Bhattacharya , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang

3D visual grounding is a critical skill for household robots, enabling them to navigate, manipulate objects, and answer questions based on their environment. While existing approaches often rely on extensive labeled data or exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jianing Yang , Xuweiyi Chen , Shengyi Qian , Nikhil Madaan , Madhavan Iyengar , David F. Fouhey , Joyce Chai

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) generate contextually relevant responses by jointly interpreting visual and textual inputs. However, our finding reveals they often mistakenly perceive text inputs lacking visual evidence as being part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sohee Kim , Soohyun Ryu , Joonhyung Park , Eunho Yang

Graphs are an essential data structure utilized to represent relationships in real-world scenarios. Prior research has established that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) deliver impressive outcomes in graph-centric tasks, such as link prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xubin Ren , Jiabin Tang , Dawei Yin , Nitesh Chawla , Chao Huang

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in image understanding and natural language generation. However, current approaches focus predominantly on global image understanding, struggling to simulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fan Yang , Shurong Zheng , Hongyin Zhao , Yufei Zhan , Xin Li , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recent advances in foundation models present new opportunities for interpretable visual recognition -- one can first query Large Language Models (LLMs) to obtain a set of attributes that describe each class, then apply vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 An Yan , Yu Wang , Yiwu Zhong , Chengyu Dong , Zexue He , Yujie Lu , William Wang , Jingbo Shang , Julian McAuley

Current large multimodal models (LMMs) face challenges in grounding, which requires the model to relate language components to visual entities. Contrary to the common practice that fine-tunes LMMs with additional grounding supervision, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shengcao Cao , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in various vision-language tasks. However, it is still unclear how accurately LVLMs can perceive visual information in images. In particular, the capability of LVLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ryo Kamoi , Yusen Zhang , Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Ranran Haoran Zhang , Rui Zhang

TThe goal of our work is to discover dominant objects in a very general setting where only a single unlabeled image is given. This is far more challenge than typical co-localization or weakly-supervised localization tasks. To tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Runsheng Zhang , Yaping Huang , Mengyang Pu , Jian Zhang , Qingji Guan , Qi Zou , Haibin Ling

Any entity in the visual world can be hierarchically grouped based on shared characteristics and mapped to fine-grained sub-categories. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on coarse-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hulingxiao He , Zijun Geng , Yuxin Peng

Task-oriented object detection aims to find objects suitable for accomplishing specific tasks. As a challenging task, it requires simultaneous visual data processing and reasoning under ambiguous semantics. Recent solutions are mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanning Chen , Wenjun Huang , Yang Ni , Sanggeon Yun , Yezi Liu , Fei Wen , Alvaro Velasquez , Hugo Latapie , Mohsen Imani

One of the main objectives in developing large vision-language models (LVLMs) is to engineer systems that can assist humans with multimodal tasks, including interpreting descriptions of perceptual experiences. A central phenomenon in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Amane Watahiki , Tomoki Doi , Taiga Shinozaki , Satoshi Nishida , Takuya Niikawa , Katsunori Miyahara , Hitomi Yanaka

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in vision understanding and reasoning. However, the autoregressive Transformer architecture used by MLLMs requries tokenization on input images, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiangxuan Ren , Zhongdao Wang , Liping Hou , Pin Tang , Guoqing Wang , Chao Ma

Detecting visual anomalies in diverse, multi-class real-world images is a significant challenge. We introduce \ours, a novel unsupervised multi-class visual anomaly detection framework. It integrates a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

Current object detectors excel at entity localization and classification, yet exhibit inherent limitations in event recognition capabilities. This deficiency arises from their architecture's emphasis on discrete object identification rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yuhui Zeng , Haoxiang Wu , Wenjie Nie , Xiawu Zheng , Guangyao Chen , Yunhang Shen , Jun Peng , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

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