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Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to remarkable capabilities, yet their inner mechanisms remain largely unknown. To understand these models, we need to unravel the functions of individual neurons and their contribution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Alex Foote , Neel Nanda , Esben Kran , Ioannis Konstas , Shay Cohen , Fazl Barez

Embodied scene understanding requires not only comprehending visual-spatial information that has been observed but also determining where to explore next in the 3D physical world. Existing 3D Vision-Language (3D-VL) models primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyu Zhu , Xilin Wang , Yixuan Li , Zhuofan Zhang , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Wei Liang , Qian Yu , Zhidong Deng , Siyuan Huang , Qing Li

3D visual grounding aims to identify the target object within a 3D point cloud scene referred to by a natural language description. Previous works usually require significant data relating to point color and their descriptions to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tung-Yu Wu , Sheng-Yu Huang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

One-shot transfer of dexterous grasps to novel scenes with object and context variations has been a challenging problem. While distilled feature fields from large vision models have enabled semantic correspondences across 3D scenes, their…

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Reasoning about complex visual scenes involves perception of entities and their relations. Scene graphs provide a natural representation for reasoning tasks, by assigning labels to both entities (nodes) and relations (edges). Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moshiko Raboh , Roei Herzig , Gal Chechik , Jonathan Berant , Amir Globerson

Grounded understanding of natural language in physical scenes can greatly benefit robots that follow human instructions. In object manipulation scenarios, existing end-to-end models are proficient at understanding semantic concepts, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Qian Luo , Yunfei Li , Yi Wu

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in vision-language tasks, yet they often struggle with vision-centric scenarios where precise visual focus is needed for accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yunze Man , De-An Huang , Guilin Liu , Shiwei Sheng , Shilong Liu , Liang-Yan Gui , Jan Kautz , Yu-Xiong Wang , Zhiding Yu

Language grounding is an active field aiming at enriching textual representations with visual information. Generally, textual and visual elements are embedded in the same representation space, which implicitly assumes a one-to-one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Patrick Bordes , Eloi Zablocki , Laure Soulier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Patrick Gallinari

Grounding (i.e. localizing) arbitrary, free-form textual phrases in visual content is a challenging problem with many applications for human-computer interaction and image-text reference resolution. Few datasets provide the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anna Rohrbach , Marcus Rohrbach , Ronghang Hu , Trevor Darrell , Bernt Schiele

Object rearrangement has recently emerged as a key competency in robot manipulation, with practical solutions generally involving object detection, recognition, grasping and high-level planning. Goal-images describing a desired scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Walter Goodwin , Sagar Vaze , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

Visual grounding associates textual descriptions with objects in an image. Conventional methods target third-person image inputs and named object queries. In applications such as AI assistants, the perspective shifts -- inputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengzhan Sun , Junbin Xiao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Yicong Li , Arjun Akula , Angela Yao

When an image generation process is guided by both a text prompt and spatial cues, such as a set of bounding boxes, do these elements work in harmony, or does one dominate the other? Our analysis of a pretrained image diffusion model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Phillip Y. Lee , Minhyuk Sung

3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes. Existing methods rely on a pre-defined Object Lookup Table (OLT) to query Visual Language Models (VLMs) for reasoning about object locations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wenyuan Huang , Zhao Wang , Zhou Wei , Ting Huang , Fang Zhao , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

3D scene generation conditioned on text prompts has significantly progressed due to the development of 2D diffusion generation models. However, the textual description of 3D scenes is inherently inaccurate and lacks fine-grained control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Minglin Chen , Longguang Wang , Sheng Ao , Ye Zhang , Kai Xu , Yulan Guo

We present a new method, PARsing And visual GrOuNding (ParaGon), for grounding natural language in object placement tasks. Natural language generally describes objects and spatial relations with compositionality and ambiguity, two major…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zirui Zhao , Wee Sun Lee , David Hsu

Achieving unified 3D perception and reasoning across tasks such as segmentation, retrieval, and relation understanding remains challenging, as existing methods are either object-centric or rely on costly training for inter-object reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yaxu Xie , Abdalla Arafa , Alireza Javanmardi , Christen Millerdurai , Jia Cheng Hu , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

We introduce Talk2Move, a reinforcement learning (RL) based diffusion framework for text-instructed spatial transformation of objects within scenes. Spatially manipulating objects in a scene through natural language poses a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jing Tan , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yantao Shen , Jiarui Cai , Shuo Yang , Jiajun Wu , Wei Xia , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Soatto

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 scene graph prediction aims to abstract complex 3D environments into structured graphs consisting of objects and their pairwise relationships. Existing approaches typically adopt object-centric graph neural networks, where relation edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yanni Ma , Hao Liu , Yulan Guo , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald