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In this paper, we present Change3D, a framework that reconceptualizes the change detection and captioning tasks through video modeling. Recent methods have achieved remarkable success by regarding each pair of bi-temporal images as separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Duowang Zhu , Xiaohu Huang , Haiyan Huang , Hao Zhou , Zhenfeng Shao

Enabling agents to understand and interact with complex 3D scenes is a fundamental challenge for embodied artificial intelligence systems. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant progress in 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haoyuan Li , Rui Liu , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Autonomous driving technology has the potential to transform transportation, but its wide adoption depends on the development of interpretable and transparent decision-making systems. Scene captioning, which generates natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Felix Brandstaetter , Erik Schuetz , Katharina Winter , Fabian Flohr

3D scene understanding is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and a key component in enabling mixed reality, wearable computing, and embodied AI. Providing a solution to these applications requires a multifaceted approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Anna-Maria Halacheva , Yang Miao , Jan-Nico Zaech , Xi Wang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Benefiting from large-scale vision-language pre-training on image-text pairs, open-world detection methods have shown superior generalization ability under the zero-shot or few-shot detection settings. However, a pre-defined category space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yanxin Long , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Pengzhen Ren , Wei Zhang , Shen Zhao , Xiaodan Liang

Performing 3D dense captioning and visual grounding requires a common and shared understanding of the underlying multimodal relationships. However, despite some previous attempts on connecting these two related tasks with highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Dave Zhenyu Chen , Ronghang Hu , Xinlei Chen , Matthias Nießner , Angel X. Chang

3D shape captioning is a challenging application in 3D shape understanding. Captions from recent multi-view based methods reveal that they cannot capture part-level characteristics of 3D shapes. This leads to a lack of detailed part-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zhizhong Han , Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

We introduce the task of localizing a flexible number of objects in real-world 3D scenes using natural language descriptions. Existing 3D visual grounding tasks focus on localizing a unique object given a text description. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yiming Zhang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

Dense video captioning aims to generate text descriptions for all events in an untrimmed video. This involves both detecting and describing events. Therefore, all previous methods on dense video captioning tackle this problem by building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Luowei Zhou , Yingbo Zhou , Jason J. Corso , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Dense video captioning is an extremely challenging task since accurate and coherent description of events in a video requires holistic understanding of video contents as well as contextual reasoning of individual events. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jonghwan Mun , Linjie Yang , Zhou Ren , Ning Xu , Bohyung Han

Semantic segmentation of large-scale outdoor point clouds is essential for urban scene understanding in various applications, especially autonomous driving and urban high-definition (HD) mapping. With rapid developments of mobile laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Weikai Tan , Nannan Qin , Lingfei Ma , Ying Li , Jing Du , Guorong Cai , Ke Yang , Jonathan Li

Contextual reasoning is essential to understand events in long untrimmed videos. In this work, we systematically explore different captioning models with various contexts for the dense-captioning events in video task, which aims to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Shizhe Chen , Yuqing Song , Yida Zhao , Qin Jin , Zhaoyang Zeng , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Alexander Hauptmann

Foundation models have achieved remarkable results in 2D and language tasks like image segmentation, object detection, and visual-language understanding. However, their potential to enrich 3D scene representation learning is largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhimin Chen , Longlong Jing , Yingwei Li , Bing Li

We introduce the dense captioning task, which requires a computer vision system to both localize and describe salient regions in images in natural language. The dense captioning task generalizes object detection when the descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Justin Johnson , Andrej Karpathy , Li Fei-Fei

Curation methods for massive vision-language datasets trade off between dataset size and quality. However, even the highest quality of available curated captions are far too short to capture the rich visual detail in an image. To show the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jack Urbanek , Florian Bordes , Pietro Astolfi , Mary Williamson , Vasu Sharma , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Existing video captioning methods struggle to balance visual fidelity and redundancy: holistic captions are compact but lose fine-grained evidence, whereas segment-wise captions improve coverage but introduce heavy redundancy. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zihan Lin , Songhe Deng , Shuwei He , Danxiang Zhu , Dan Zhang , Yishu Lei , Xianlong Luo , Shikun Feng , Rui Liu

Our goal in this work is to train an image captioning model that generates more dense and informative captions. We introduce "relational captioning," a novel image captioning task which aims to generate multiple captions with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Dong-Jin Kim , Jinsoo Choi , Tae-Hyun Oh , In So Kweon

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in instruction following and 2D image understanding. While these models are powerful, they have not yet been developed to comprehend the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Senqiao Yang , Jiaming Liu , Ray Zhang , Mingjie Pan , Zoey Guo , Xiaoqi Li , Zehui Chen , Peng Gao , Yandong Guo , Shanghang Zhang

Perceiving pedestrians in highly crowded urban environments is a difficult long-tail problem for learning-based autonomous perception. Speeding up 3D ground truth generation for such challenging scenes is performance-critical yet very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Shichao Li , Peiliang Li , Qing Lian , Peng Yun , Xiaozhi Chen

Current successful methods of 3D scene perception rely on the large-scale annotated point cloud, which is tedious and expensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose Model2Scene, a novel paradigm that learns free 3D scene representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Runnan Chen , Xinge Zhu , Nenglun Chen , Dawei Wang , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Ruigang Yang , Tongliang Liu , Wenping Wang