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The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

3D visual grounding has made notable progress in localizing objects within complex 3D scenes. However, grounding referring expressions beyond objects in 3D scenes remains unexplored. In this paper, we introduce Anywhere3D-Bench, a holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianxu Wang , Zhuofan Zhang , Ziyu Zhu , Yue Fan , Jing Xiong , Pengxiang Li , Xiaojian Ma , Qing Li

Open-vocabulary 3D visual grounding aims to localize target objects based on free-form language queries, which is crucial for embodied AI applications such as autonomous navigation, robotics, and augmented reality. Learning 3D language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhenyang Liu , Sixiao Zheng , Siyu Chen , Cairong Zhao , Longfei Liang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) is an essential capability for embodied AI, requiring agents to localize objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions. Recent zero-shot methods leverage 2D vision-language models (LVLMs). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cuong Huynh , Maxim Popov , Denis Gridusov , Sergey Kolyubin

Grounding language in the physical world requires AI systems to interpret references that emerge dynamically during conversation. While current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static image tasks, they struggle to resolve ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Lubos Marcinek , Anna Klezovich , Iolanda Leite , Jonas Beskow

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful representation for neural scene reconstruction, offering high-quality novel view synthesis while maintaining computational efficiency. In this paper, we extend the capabilities of 3DGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jens Piekenbrinck , Christian Schmidt , Alexander Hermans , Narunas Vaskevicius , Timm Linder , Bastian Leibe

The ability to map descriptions of scenes to 3D geometric representations has many applications in areas such as art, education, and robotics. However, prior work on the text to 3D scene generation task has used manually specified object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Angel Chang , Will Monroe , Manolis Savva , Christopher Potts , Christopher D. Manning

The human language is one of the most natural interfaces for humans to interact with robots. This paper presents a robot system that retrieves everyday objects with unconstrained natural language descriptions. A core issue for the system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to recognize and segment objects from arbitrary natural language descriptions, offering the flexibility to handle novel, fine-grained, or functionally defined categories beyond fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chongyu Wang , Kunlei Jing , Jihua Zhu , Di Wang

Open-vocabulary 3D scene graph generation seeks to describe object instances and their relations with flexible natural-language predicates. The central difficulty is not only vocabulary expansion, but supervision reliability: relation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Minh Anh Nguyen , Quang Huy Tran , Bao Ngoc Le , Tuan Kiet Pham , Sui Yang Guang

Enabling intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with 3D environments through natural language is crucial for advancing robotics and human-computer interaction. A fundamental task in this field is ego-centric 3D visual grounding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Henry Zheng , Hao Shi , Qihang Peng , Yong Xien Chng , Rui Huang , Yepeng Weng , Zhongchao Shi , Gao Huang

This paper addresses the problem of 3D referring expression comprehension (REC) in autonomous driving scenario, which aims to ground a natural language to the targeted region in LiDAR point clouds. Previous approaches for REC usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wenhao Cheng , Junbo Yin , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

This paper presents a comprehensive pipeline for recognizing objects targeted by human pointing gestures using RGB images. As human-robot interaction moves toward more intuitive interfaces, the ability to identify targets of non-verbal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lukáš Hajdúch , Viktor Kocur

2D object proposals, quickly detected regions in an image that likely contain an object of interest, are an effective approach for improving the computational efficiency and accuracy of object detection in color images. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Jiangbo Lu , Nianjuan Jiang , Tian Tsong Ng , Minh N. Do

Text-based Visual Question Answering~(TextVQA) aims to produce correct answers for given questions about the images with multiple scene texts. In most cases, the texts naturally attach to the surface of the objects. Therefore, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hao Li , Jinfa Huang , Peng Jin , Guoli Song , Qi Wu , Jie Chen

Point cloud-based open-vocabulary 3D object detection aims to detect 3D categories that do not have ground-truth annotations in the training set. It is extremely challenging because of the limited data and annotations (bounding boxes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chenming Zhu , Wenwei Zhang , Tai Wang , Xihui Liu , Kai Chen

Open-vocabulary querying in 3D space is challenging but essential for scene understanding tasks such as object localization and segmentation. Language-embedded scene representations have made progress by incorporating language features into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jin-Chuan Shi , Miao Wang , Hao-Bin Duan , Shao-Hua Guan

The task of temporally grounding language queries in videos is to temporally localize the best matched video segment corresponding to a given language (sentence). It requires certain models to simultaneously perform visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Wenhao Jiang

Modern tools for class-agnostic image segmentation (e.g., SegmentAnything) and open-set semantic understanding (e.g., CLIP) provide unprecedented opportunities for robot perception and mapping. While traditional closed-set metric-semantic…

3D scene graphs provide a structured representation of object entities and their relationships, enabling high-level interpretation and reasoning for robots while remaining intuitively understandable to humans. Existing approaches for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zirui Wang , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Junwei Zheng , Weijia Fan , Kunyu Peng , Di Wen , Jiale Wei , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen