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In real-life scenarios, humans seek out objects in the 3D world to fulfill their daily needs or intentions. This inspires us to introduce 3D intention grounding, a new task in 3D object detection employing RGB-D, based on human intention,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Weitai Kang , Mengxue Qu , Jyoti Kini , Yunchao Wei , Mubarak Shah , Yan Yan

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

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in human communication. Previous approaches in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) have often relied on predefined interaction templates, leading to reduced performance in realistic and open-ended scenarios. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Hanbo Zhang , Jie Xu , Yuchen Mo , Tao Kong

Leveraging the universal representations of pre-trained LLMs and MLLMs offers a promising path toward brain foundation models. However, visually-evoked EEG datasets remain scarce, leading existing methods to align neural signals mainly with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jun-Yu Pan , Yansen Wang , Enze Zhang , Bao-Liang Lu , Wei-Long Zheng , Dongsheng Li

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

In most existing embodied navigation tasks, instructions are well-defined and unambiguous, such as instruction following and object searching. Under this idealized setting, agents are required solely to produce effective navigation outputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wensi Huang , Shaohao Zhu , Meng Wei , Jinming Xu , Xihui Liu , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Feng Zhao , Jiangmiao Pang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to couple perception with robotic control, offering a promising path toward general-purpose embodied intelligence. However, current SOTA VLAs are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yandu Chen , Kefan Gu , Yuqing Wen , Yucheng Zhao , Tiancai Wang , Liqiang Nie

We present Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance (VNLA), a grounded vision-language task where an agent with visual perception is guided via language to find objects in photorealistic indoor environments. The task emulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Khanh Nguyen , Debadeepta Dey , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan

For machines to effectively assist humans in challenging visual search tasks, they must differentiate whether a human is simply glancing into a scene (navigational intent) or searching for a target object (informational intent). Previous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansi Sharma , Shuang Chen , Philipp Müller , Maurice Rekrut , Antonio Krüger

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

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

Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Guoshun Nan , Rui Qiao , Yao Xiao , Jun Liu , Sicong Leng , Hao Zhang , Wei Lu

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to utilize given natural language queries to locate specific target objects within images. While current transformer-based approaches demonstrate strong localization performance in standard scene (i.e, scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiangnan Xie , Xiaolong Zheng , Liang Zheng

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

3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

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

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

Visual grounding focuses on detecting objects from images based on language expressions. Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced visual grounding performance by training large models with large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yangxiao Lu , Ruosen Li , Liqiang Jing , Jikai Wang , Xinya Du , Yunhui Guo , Nicholas Ruozzi , Yu Xiang

Robots collaborating with humans must convert natural language goals into actionable, physically grounded decisions. For example, executing a command such as "go two meters to the right of the fridge" requires grounding semantic references,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Swagat Padhan , Lakshya Jain , Bhavya Minesh Shah , Omkar Patil , Thao Nguyen , Nakul Gopalan

Visual grounding is a common vision task that involves grounding descriptive sentences to the corresponding regions of an image. Most existing methods use independent image-text encoding and apply complex hand-crafted modules or…

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