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Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in video frames referred by the natural language expression. Recently, the Transformerbased methods have greatly boosted the performance limit. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Yuexian Zou

Video grounding aims to localize the temporal segment corresponding to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Almost all existing video grounding methods fall into two frameworks: 1) Top-down model: It predefines a set of segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Meng Cao , Long Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

3D visual grounding is the task of localizing the object in a 3D scene which is referred by a description in natural language. With a wide range of applications ranging from autonomous indoor robotics to AR/VR, the task has recently risen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Suman Saha , Luc Van Gool

3D visual grounding (3DVG), which aims to correlate a natural language description with the target object within a 3D scene, is a significant yet challenging task. Despite recent advancements in this domain, existing approaches commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xinyi Wang , Na Zhao , Zhiyuan Han , Dan Guo , Xun Yang

Unlike Object Detection, Visual Grounding task necessitates the detection of an object described by complex free-form language. To simultaneously model such complex semantic and visual representations, recent state-of-the-art studies adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Luowei Zhou , Junyi Wu , Changchang Sun , Yan Yan

Most models tasked to ground referential utterances in 2D and 3D scenes learn to select the referred object from a pool of object proposals provided by a pre-trained detector. This is limiting because an utterance may refer to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ayush Jain , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Ishita Mediratta , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

Compared with the visual grounding on 2D images, the natural-language-guided 3D object localization on point clouds is more challenging. In this paper, we propose a new model, named InstanceRefer, to achieve a superior 3D visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Zhihao Yuan , Xu Yan , Yinghong Liao , Ruimao Zhang , Sheng Wang , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui

Referring expression grounding is an important and challenging task in computer vision. To avoid the laborious annotation in conventional referring grounding, unpaired referring grounding is introduced, where the training data only contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Jianfei Cai

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

The 3D visual grounding task has been explored with visual and language streams comprehending referential language to identify target objects in 3D scenes. However, most existing methods devote the visual stream to capturing the 3D visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Eslam Mohamed Bakr , Yasmeen Alsaedy , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Grounding referring expressions in RGBD image has been an emerging field. We present a novel task of 3D visual grounding in single-view RGBD image where the referred objects are often only partially scanned due to occlusion. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Haolin Liu , Anran Lin , Xiaoguang Han , Lei Yang , Yizhou Yu , Shuguang Cui

Visual grounding tasks, such as referring image segmentation (RIS) and referring expression comprehension (REC), aim to localize a target object based on a given textual description. The target object in an image can be described in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Seonghoon Yu , Junbeom Hong , Joonseok Lee , Jeany Son

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Recent DETR-based video grounding models have made the model directly predict moment timestamps without any hand-crafted components, such as a pre-defined proposal or non-maximum suppression, by learning moment queries. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jinhyun Jang , Jungin Park , Jin Kim , Hyeongjun Kwon , Kwanghoon Sohn

Weakly supervised visual grounding aims to predict the region in an image that corresponds to a specific linguistic query, where the mapping between the target object and query is unknown in the training stage. The state-of-the-art method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Viet-Quoc Pham , Nao Mishima

State-of-the-art visual grounding models can achieve high detection accuracy, but they are not designed to distinguish between all objects versus only certain objects of interest. In natural language, in order to specify a particular object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Clarence Lee , M Ganesh Kumar , Cheston Tan

GUI grounding is a critical capability for vision-language models (VLMs) that enables automated interaction with graphical user interfaces by locating target elements from natural language instructions. However, grounding on GUI screenshots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Siqi Pei , Liang Tang , Tiaonan Duan , Long Chen , Shuxian Li , Kaer Huang , Yanzhe Jing , Yiqiang Yan , Bo Zhang , Chenghao Jiang , Borui Zhang , Jiwen Lu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced rapidly by aligning visual patches with the text embedding space, but a fixed visual-token budget forces images to be resized to a uniform pretraining resolution, often erasing fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zipeng Zhu , Zhanghao Hu , Qinglin Zhu , Yuxi Hong , Yijun Liu , Jingyong Su , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Transformers have recently gained increasing attention in computer vision. However, existing studies mostly use Transformers for feature representation learning, e.g. for image classification and dense predictions, and the generalizability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao