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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

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in 3D scenes based on textual descriptions, essential for applications like augmented reality and robotics. Traditional 3DVG approaches rely on annotated 3D datasets and predefined object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rong Li , Shijie Li , Lingdong Kong , Xulei Yang , Junwei Liang

3D visual grounding (3DVG) identifies objects in 3D scenes from language descriptions. Existing zero-shot approaches leverage 2D vision-language models (VLMs) by converting 3D spatial information (SI) into forms amenable to VLM processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuanyuan Liu , Haiyang Mei , Dongyang Zhan , Jiayue Zhao , Dongsheng Zhou , Bo Dong , Xin Yang

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) seeks to locate target objects in 3D scenes using natural language descriptions, enabling downstream applications such as augmented reality and robotics. Existing approaches typically rely on labeled 3D data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rong Li , Shijie Li , Lingdong Kong , Xulei Yang , Junwei Liang

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize target objects within a 3D scene based on natural language queries. To alleviate the reliance on costly 3D training data, recent studies have explored zero-shot 3DVG by leveraging the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zhao Jin , Rong-Cheng Tu , Jingyi Liao , Wenhao Sun , Xiao Luo , Shunyu Liu , Dacheng Tao

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

Understanding 3D scenes from multi-view inputs has been proven to alleviate the view discrepancy issue in 3D visual grounding. However, existing methods normally neglect the view cues embedded in the text modality and fail to weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zoey Guo , Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

3-Dimensional Embodied Reference Understanding (3D-ERU) combines a language description and an accompanying pointing gesture to identify the most relevant target object in a 3D scene. Although prior work has explored pure language-based 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Atharv Mahesh Mane , Dulanga Weerakoon , Vigneshwaran Subbaraju , Sougata Sen , Sanjay E. Sarma , Archan Misra

The 3D visual grounding task aims to ground a natural language description to the targeted object in a 3D scene, which is usually represented in 3D point clouds. Previous works studied visual grounding under specific views. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Shijia Huang , Yilun Chen , Jiaya Jia , Liwei Wang

3D visual grounding (3DVG) involves localizing entities in a 3D scene referred to by natural language text. Such models are useful for embodied AI and scene retrieval applications, which involve searching for objects or patterns using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Austin T. Wang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

In this paper, we propose a transformer based approach for visual grounding. Unlike previous proposal-and-rank frameworks that rely heavily on pretrained object detectors or proposal-free frameworks that upgrade an off-the-shelf one-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Zero-shot 3D visual grounding requires localizing objects in unstructured environments from free-form natural language. Recent vision-language model (VLM) approaches achieve promising results but rely on view-dependent reasoning or implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xuefei Sun , Xujia Zhang , Brendan Crowe , Doncey Albin , Christoffer Heckman

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in 3D scenes based on text prompts, which is essential for applications such as robotics. However, existing 3DVG methods encounter two main challenges: first, they struggle to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Liwei Liao , Xufeng Li , Xiaoyun Zheng , Boning Liu , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

3D visual grounding involves finding a target object in a 3D scene that corresponds to a given sentence query. Although many approaches have been proposed and achieved impressive performance, they all require dense object-sentence pair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zehan Wang , Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Linjun Li , Xize Cheng , Yichen Zhu , Aoxiong Yin , Zhou Zhao

This work presents OVIR-3D, a straightforward yet effective method for open-vocabulary 3D object instance retrieval without using any 3D data for training. Given a language query, the proposed method is able to return a ranked set of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shiyang Lu , Haonan Chang , Eric Pu Jing , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

The 3D weakly-supervised visual grounding task aims to localize oriented 3D boxes in point clouds based on natural language descriptions without requiring annotations to guide model learning. This setting presents two primary challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaoqi Li , Jiaming Liu , Nuowei Han , Liang Heng , Yandong Guo , Hao Dong , Yang Liu

Multi-view 3D visual grounding is critical for autonomous driving vehicles to interpret natural languages and localize target objects in complex environments. However, existing datasets and methods suffer from coarse-grained language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Fuhao Li , Huan Jin , Bin Gao , Liaoyuan Fan , Lihui Jiang , Long Zeng

Natural language applied to natural 2D images describes a fundamentally 3D world. We present the Voxel-informed Language Grounder (VLG), a language grounding model that leverages 3D geometric information in the form of voxel maps derived…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Rodolfo Corona , Shizhan Zhu , Dan Klein , Trevor Darrell

Grounding referring expressions in RGBD image has been an emerging field. We present a novel task of 3D visual grounding in single-view RGBD image where the referred objects are often only partially scanned due to occlusion. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Haolin Liu , Anran Lin , Xiaoguang Han , Lei Yang , Yizhou Yu , Shuguang Cui