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Recent advancements in robotic manipulation have highlighted the potential of intermediate representations for improving policy generalization. In this work, we explore grounding masks as an effective intermediate representation, balancing…

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Effective foundation modeling in remote sensing requires spatially aligned heterogeneous modalities coupled with semantically grounded supervision, yet such resources remain limited at scale. We present GeoMeld, a large-scale multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Maram Hasan , Md Aminur Hossain , Savitra Roy , Souparna Bhowmik , Ayush V. Patel , Mainak Singha , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Muhammad Haris Khan , Biplab Banerjee

3D visual grounding aims to identify and localize objects in a 3D space based on textual descriptions. However, existing methods struggle with disentangling targets from anchors in complex multi-anchor queries and resolving inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronggang Huang , Haoxin Yang , Yan Cai , Xuemiao Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He

Most multimodal large language models (MLLMs) learn language-to-object grounding through causal language modeling where grounded objects are captured by bounding boxes as sequences of location tokens. This paradigm lacks pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yichi Zhang , Ziqiao Ma , Xiaofeng Gao , Suhaila Shakiah , Qiaozi Gao , Joyce Chai

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

Remote sensing has become critical for understanding environmental dynamics, urban planning, and disaster management. However, traditional remote sensing workflows often rely on explicit segmentation or detection methods, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kaiyu Li , Zepeng Xin , Li Pang , Chao Pang , Yupeng Deng , Jing Yao , Guisong Xia , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang , Xiangyong Cao

Recent advances in natural-domain multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated effective spatial reasoning through visual and textual prompting. However, their direct transfer to remote sensing (RS) is hindered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Yaqian Ning , Tong Zhang , Yin Zhuang , Shijian Lu , He Chen , Jun Li , Xuerui Mao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can generate convincing clinical narratives, yet frequently struggle to visually ground their statements. We posit this limitation arises from the scarcity of high-quality, large-scale clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Mengmeng Zhang , Xiaoping Wu , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Yisheng Lv

3D visual grounding is a critical skill for household robots, enabling them to navigate, manipulate objects, and answer questions based on their environment. While existing approaches often rely on extensive labeled data or exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jianing Yang , Xuweiyi Chen , Shengyi Qian , Nikhil Madaan , Madhavan Iyengar , David F. Fouhey , Joyce Chai

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) utilizing extensive image-text paired data have demonstrated unprecedented image-text association capabilities, achieving remarkable results across various downstream tasks. A critical challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zilun Zhang , Tiancheng Zhao , Yulong Guo , Jianwei Yin

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize temporal segments in long, untrimmed videos that align with a given natural language query. This task typically comprises two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Traditional Visual Grounding (VG) predominantly relies on textual descriptions to localize objects, a paradigm that inherently struggles with linguistic ambiguity and often ignores non-verbal deictic cues prevalent in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ling Li , Bowen Liu , Zinuo Zhan , Peng Jie , Jianhui Zhong , Kenglun Chang , Zhidong Deng

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been extended to the vision-language realm, obtaining impressive general multi-modal capabilities. However, the exploration of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for remote sensing (RS) data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yang Zhan , Zhitong Xiong , Yuan Yuan

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) extend Large Language Models to the vision domain. Initial LMMs used holistic images and text prompts to generate ungrounded textual responses. Recently, region-level LMMs have been used to generate visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abdelrahman Shaker , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao M. Anwer , Erix Xing , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad S. Khan

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in earth observation (EO), yet they struggle with tasks that require grounding complex spatial reasoning in precise pixel-level visual representations. To address this problem, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yan Shu , Bin Ren , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Begüm Demir , Nicu Sebe , Paolo Rota

Open-world referring segmentation requires grounding unconstrained language expressions to precise pixel-level regions. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong open-world visual grounding, but their outputs remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Humen Zhong , Jiangning Wei , Yifang Men , Shuai Bai , Miaomiao Cui , Zhibo Yang

Visual agent models for automating human activities on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have emerged as a promising research direction, driven by advances in large Vision Language Models (VLMs). A critical challenge in GUI automation is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Joonhyung Park , Peng Tang , Sagnik Das , Srikar Appalaraju , Kunwar Yashraj Singh , R. Manmatha , Shabnam Ghadar

Grounding natural language queries in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) presents a challenging task that requires models to comprehend diverse UI elements across various applications and systems, while also accurately predicting the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhecheng Li , Guoxian Song , Yiwei Wang , Zhen Xiong , Junsong Yuan , Yujun Cai

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise in visual grounding for images as well as videos. In medical imaging research, VLMs represent a bridge between object detection and segmentation, and report understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Andrew Seohwan Yu , Mohsen Hariri , Kunio Nakamura , Mingrui Yang , Xiaojuan Li , Vipin Chaudhary

Recently, the remarkable success of ChatGPT has sparked a renewed wave of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), and the advancements in visual language models (VLMs) have pushed this enthusiasm to new heights. Differring from previous…

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