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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…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance on diverse visual and linguistic tasks, yet they remain fundamentally limited in their understanding of 3D spatial structures. We propose Geometric Distillation, a lightweight,…

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For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

Cross-domain alignment between image objects and text sequences is key to many visual-language tasks, and it poses a fundamental challenge to both computer vision and natural language processing. This paper investigates a novel approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Siyang Yuan , Ke Bai , Liqun Chen , Yizhe Zhang , Chenyang Tao , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have shown potential in leveraging pretrained vision-language models and diverse robot demonstrations for learning generalizable sensorimotor control. While this paradigm effectively utilizes large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Qingqing Zhao , Yao Lu , Moo Jin Kim , Zipeng Fu , Zhuoyang Zhang , Yecheng Wu , Zhaoshuo Li , Qianli Ma , Song Han , Chelsea Finn , Ankur Handa , Ming-Yu Liu , Donglai Xiang , Gordon Wetzstein , Tsung-Yi Lin

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

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and ALIGN, are generally trained on datasets consisting of image-caption pairs obtained from the web. However, real-world multimodal datasets, such as healthcare data, are significantly more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Maya Varma , Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Sarah Hooper , Akshay Chaudhari , Curtis Langlotz

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, benefiting from large-scale unlabeled text-image pairs, has demonstrated great performance in open-world vision understanding tasks. However, due to the limited Text-3D data pairs, adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yihan Zeng , Chenhan Jiang , Jiageng Mao , Jianhua Han , Chaoqiang Ye , Qingqiu Huang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Zhen Yang , Xiaodan Liang , Hang Xu

3D visual grounding aims to locate the referred target object in 3D point cloud scenes according to a free-form language description. Previous methods mostly follow a two-stage paradigm, i.e., language-irrelevant detection and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Junyu Luo , Jiahui Fu , Xianghao Kong , Chen Gao , Haibing Ren , Hao Shen , Huaxia Xia , Si Liu

3D object grounding aims to locate the most relevant target object in a raw point cloud scene based on a free-form language description. Understanding complex and diverse descriptions, and lifting them directly to a point cloud is a new and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mingtao Feng , Zhen Li , Qi Li , Liang Zhang , XiangDong Zhang , Guangming Zhu , Hui Zhang , Yaonan Wang , Ajmal Mian

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

Text-to-point-cloud (T2P) localization aims to infer precise spatial positions within 3D point cloud maps from natural language descriptions, reflecting how humans perceive and communicate spatial layouts through language. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shuhao Kang , Youqi Liao , Peijie Wang , Wenlong Liao , Qilin Zhang , Benjamin Busam , Xieyuanli Chen , Yun Liu

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand the 3D physical world is an emerging yet challenging research direction. Current strategies for processing point clouds typically downsample the scene or divide it into smaller parts for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Guofeng Mei , Wei Lin , Luigi Riz , Yujiao Wu , Fabio Poiesi , Yiming Wang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation by leveraging large pretrained vision-language backbones. However, most existing VLAs rely primarily on 2D visual representations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shizhe Chen , Paul Pacaud , Cordelia Schmid

3D object grounding localizes referred objects in a 3D scene from natural language. Unified instance-centric 3D-LLMs aim to solve grounding together with dialog, QA, and captioning, yet many rely on a single pointer-style grounding decision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiawei Li , Ziyi Liu , Weijie Shi , Long Chen , Jiajie Xu , Xiaofang Zhou

Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable promise in generating visually grounded responses. However, their application in the medical domain is hindered by unique challenges. For instance, most VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lingxiao Luo , Bingda Tang , Xuanzhong Chen , Rong Han , Ting Chen

Monocular 3D object detection is one of the most challenging tasks in 3D scene understanding. Due to the ill-posed nature of monocular imagery, existing monocular 3D detection methods highly rely on training with the manually annotated 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Liang Peng , Senbo Yan , Boxi Wu , Zheng Yang , Xiaofei He , Deng Cai

3D visual grounding (3DVG) aims to localize objects in a 3D scene based on natural language queries. In this work, we explore zero-shot 3DVG from multi-view images alone, without requiring any geometric supervision or object priors. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nikita Drozdov , Andrey Lemeshko , Nikita Gavrilov , Anton Konushin , Danila Rukhovich , Maksim Kolodiazhnyi

3D vision-language grounding faces a fundamental data bottleneck: while 2D models train on billions of images, 3D models have access to only thousands of labeled scenes--a six-order-of-magnitude gap that severely limits performance. We…