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Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable success in single-image tasks. However, real-world scenarios often involve intricate multi-image inputs, leading to a notable performance decline as models struggle to disentangle critical…

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Visual dialog is challenging since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions based on understanding the visual environment. How to ground related visual objects is one of the key problems. Previous studies utilize the question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Feilong Chen , Xiuyi Chen , Can Xu , Daxin Jiang

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is an important yet challenging task in multimedia information retrieval. Although previous TSG methods have achieved decent performance, they tend to capture the selection biases of frequently appeared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Wei Hu

Multi-task visual grounding (MTVG) includes two sub-tasks, i.e., Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) and Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). The existing representative approaches generally follow the research pipeline which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingchao Wang , Hong Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Kunhua Ji , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng

Vision-language models have been widely explored across a wide range of tasks and achieve satisfactory performance. However, it's under-explored how to consolidate entity understanding through a varying number of images and to align it with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Wenyi Wu , Qi Li , Wenliang Zhong , Junzhou Huang

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to localize specific objects in an image according to natural language expressions, serving as a fundamental task in vision-language understanding. However, existing VG benchmarks are mostly derived from datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianyi Zhao , Jiawen Xi , Linhui Xiao , Junnan Li , Xue Yang , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

Progress in 3D vision-language learning has been hindered by the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets. We introduce UniVLG, a unified architecture for 2D and 3D vision-language understanding that bridges the gap between existing 2D-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ayush Jain , Alexander Swerdlow , Yuzhou Wang , Sergio Arnaud , Ada Martin , Alexander Sax , Franziska Meier , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Visual Grounding (VG) in Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems describes how well a system manages to tie a question and its answer to relevant image regions. Systems with strong VG are considered intuitively interpretable and suggest an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Daniel Reich , Felix Putze , Tanja Schultz

Grounding textual phrases in visual content is a meaningful yet challenging problem with various potential applications such as image-text inference or text-driven multimedia interaction. Most of the current existing methods adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Tianshu Yu , Yezhou Yang

Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved impressive performance on a variety of vision-language tasks, yet their fine-grained visual perception and precise spatial reasoning remain limited. In this work, we introduce DiG (Differential…

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3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) focuses on locating objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions, serving as a fundamental task for embodied AI and robotics. Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

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The recent advancement in video temporal grounding (VTG) has significantly enhanced fine-grained video understanding, primarily driven by multimodal large language models (MLLMs). With superior multimodal comprehension and reasoning…

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Key to tasks that require reasoning about natural language in visual contexts is grounding words and phrases to image regions. However, observing this grounding in contemporary models is complex, even if it is generally expected to take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Noriyuki Kojima , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Yoav Artzi

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) effectively bridge the modality gap through extensive pretraining, acquiring sophisticated visual representations aligned with language. However, it remains underexplored whether these representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiahao Guo , Sinan Du , Jingfeng Yao , Wenyu Liu , Bo Li , Haoxiang Cao , Kun Gai , Chun Yuan , Kai Wu , Xinggang Wang

Visual grounding, a task to ground (i.e., localize) natural language in images, essentially requires composite visual reasoning. However, existing methods over-simplify the composite nature of language into a monolithic sentence embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Feng Wu , Zheng-Jun Zha

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims at localizing 3D object based on textual descriptions. Conventional supervised methods for 3DVG often necessitate extensive annotations and a predefined vocabulary, which can be restrictive. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhihao Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chun-Mei Feng , Hengshuang Zhao , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Perception is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision, encompassing a diverse set of subtasks that can be systematically categorized into four distinct groups based on two dimensions: prediction type and instruction type.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wentao Xiang , Haoxian Tan , Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Dengjie Li , Yujiu Yang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), or Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have shown impressive capabilities in a wide range of visual tasks. However, they often struggle with fine-grained visual reasoning, failing to identify domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yucheng Shi , Quanzheng Li , Jin Sun , Xiang Li , Ninghao Liu

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo