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Visual grounding (VG) tasks involve explicit cross-modal alignment, as semantically corresponding image regions are to be located for the language phrases provided. Existing approaches complete such visual-text reasoning in a single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sijia Chen , Baochun Li

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

Learning visual representations with interpretable features, i.e., disentangled representations, remains a challenging problem. Existing methods demonstrate some success but are hard to apply to large-scale vision datasets like ImageNet. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Lilian Ngweta , Subha Maity , Alex Gittens , Yuekai Sun , Mikhail Yurochkin

Spatio-temporal video grounding (or STVG) task aims at locating a spatio-temporal tube for a specific instance given a text query. Despite advancements, current methods easily suffer the distractors or heavy object appearance variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xin Gu , Heng Fan , Yan Huang , Tiejian Luo , Libo Zhang

Current visual grounding models are either based on a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that performs auto-regressive decoding, which is slow and risks hallucinations, or on re-aligning an LLM with vision features to learn new special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Weitai Kang , Jason Kuen , Mengwei Ren , Zijun Wei , Yan Yan , Kangning Liu

3D visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects or regions within 3D scenes guided by natural language descriptions. While indoor 3D VG has advanced, outdoor 3D VG remains underexplored due to two challenges: (1) large-scale outdoor LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yeong-Seung Baek , Heung-Seon Oh

Open-vocabulary learning has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, particularly in light of the widespread adoption of vision-based foundational models. Its primary objective is to comprehend novel concepts that are not encompassed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Xiangtai Li , Guangliang Cheng , Shuchang Lyu , Binghao Liu , Lijiang Chen , Qi Zhao

This study builds on the architecture of the Disentangler of Visual Priors (DVP), a type of autoencoder that learns to interpret scenes by decomposing the perceived objects into independent visual aspects of shape, size, orientation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Antoni Nowinowski , Krzysztof Krawiec

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

In this paper, we present a neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image. The state-of-the-art methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to localize specific objects in an image according to natural language expressions, serving as a fundamental task in vision-language understanding. However, existing VG benchmarks are mostly derived from datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianyi Zhao , Jiawen Xi , Linhui Xiao , Junnan Li , Xue Yang , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

We present a unified model capable of simultaneously grounding both spoken language and non-speech sounds within a visual scene, addressing key limitations in current audio-visual grounding models. Existing approaches are typically limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyeonggon Ryu , Seongyu Kim , Joon Son Chung , Arda Senocak

Visual grounding is a task to ground referring expressions in images, e.g., localize "the white truck in front of the yellow one". To resolve this task fundamentally, the model should first find out the contextual objects (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Meng Wang , Qianru Sun

We focus on grounding (i.e., localizing or linking) referring expressions in images, e.g., ``largest elephant standing behind baby elephant''. This is a general yet challenging vision-language task since it does not only require the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Yulei Niu , Hanwang Zhang , Zhiwu Lu , Shih-Fu Chang

3D visual grounding aims to identify and localize objects in a 3D space based on textual descriptions. However, existing methods struggle with disentangling targets from anchors in complex multi-anchor queries and resolving inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronggang Huang , Haoxin Yang , Yan Cai , Xuemiao Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He

Service robots should be able to interact naturally with non-expert human users, not only to help them in various tasks but also to receive guidance in order to resolve ambiguities that might be present in the instruction. We consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

In this paper, we introduce the task of visual grounding for remote sensing data (RSVG). RSVG aims to localize the referred objects in remote sensing (RS) images with the guidance of natural language. To retrieve rich information from RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yang Zhan , Zhitong Xiong , Yuan Yuan

In this work, we explore neat yet effective Transformer-based frameworks for visual grounding. The previous methods generally address the core problem of visual grounding, i.e., multi-modal fusion and reasoning, with manually-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Daqing Liu , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Yanyong Zhang , Houqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

Weakly supervised visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects in images based on text descriptions. Despite significant progress, existing methods lack strong cross-modal reasoning to distinguish subtle semantic differences in text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yidan Wang , Chenyi Zhuang , Wutao Liu , Pan Gao , Nicu Sebe