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Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

The problem of grounding VQA tasks has seen an increased attention in the research community recently, with most attempts usually focusing on solving this task by using pretrained object detectors. However, pre-trained object detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Kevin Duarte , Chuang Gan , Niels Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Temporal sentence grounding aims to localize moments relevant to a language description. Recently, DETR-like approaches achieved notable progress by predicting the center and length of a target moment. However, they suffer from the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Pilhyeon Lee , Hyeran Byun

Visual reasoning refers to the task of solving questions about visual information. Current visual reasoning methods typically employ pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) strategies or deep neural network approaches. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chao Wang , Chunbai Zhang , Yongxiao Tian , Yang Zhou , Yan Peng

Due to various and complicated snow degradations, single image desnowing is a challenging image restoration task. As prior arts can not handle it ideally, we propose a novel transformer, SnowFormer, which explores efficient cross-attentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yun Liu , Erkang Chen

Gaze following requires both scene understanding and gaze reasoning to localize the gaze target of an in-scene person. Recently, vision foundation models (VFMs) have demonstrated strong performance on this task, enabling simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shijing Wang , Yaping Huang , Chaoqun Cui , David Wong , Yihua Cheng , Alexandros Neophytou , Hyung Jin Chang

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

In this work, we explore neat yet effective Transformer-based frameworks for visual grounding. The previous methods generally address the core problem of visual grounding, i.e., multi-modal fusion and reasoning, with manually-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Daqing Liu , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Yanyong Zhang , Houqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang

Information retrieval lies at the foundation of the modern digital industry. While natural language search has seen dramatic progress in recent years largely driven by embedding-based models and large-scale pretraining, the field still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Adrià Molina , Oriol Ramos Terrades , Josep Lladós

The problem of language grounding has attracted much attention in recent years due to its pivotal role in more general image-lingual high level reasoning tasks (e.g., image captioning, VQA). Despite the tremendous progress in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zicong Fan , Si Yi Meng , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

Existing visual grounding benchmarks primarily evaluate alignment between image regions and literal referring expressions, where models can often succeed by matching a prominent named category. We explore a complementary and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruozhen He , Nisarg A. Shah , Qihua Dong , Zilin Xiao , Jaywon Koo , Vicente Ordonez

Blind face restoration aims at recovering high-quality face images from those with unknown degradations. Current algorithms mainly introduce priors to complement high-quality details and achieve impressive progress. However, most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhouxia Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

Deformable image registration establishes non-linear spatial correspondences between fixed and moving images. Deep learning-based deformable registration methods have been widely studied in recent years due to their speed advantage over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yihao Liu , Junyu Chen , Lianrui Zuo , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

It is a challenging task to learn discriminative representation from images and videos, due to large local redundancy and complex global dependency in these visual data. Convolution neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Junhao Zhang , Peng Gao , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

Tracking by natural language specification aims to locate the referred target in a sequence based on the natural language description. Existing algorithms solve this issue in two steps, visual grounding and tracking, and accordingly deploy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Li Zhou , Zikun Zhou , Kaige Mao , Zhenyu He

3D visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects or regions within 3D scenes guided by natural language descriptions. While indoor 3D VG has advanced, outdoor 3D VG remains underexplored due to two challenges: (1) large-scale outdoor LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yeong-Seung Baek , Heung-Seon Oh

Accurately estimating the pose of an object is a crucial task in computer vision and robotics. There are two main deep learning approaches for this: geometric representation regression and iterative refinement. However, these methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jaewoo Park , Jaeguk Kim , Nam Ik Cho

Using only image-sentence pairs, weakly-supervised visual-textual grounding aims to learn region-phrase correspondences of the respective entity mentions. Compared to the supervised approach, learning is more difficult since bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Davide Rigoni , Luca Parolari , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Sperduti , Lamberto Ballan

Temporal grounding aims to predict a time interval of a video clip corresponding to a natural language query input. In this work, we present EVOQUER, a temporal grounding framework incorporating an existing text-to-video grounding model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yanjun Gao , Lulu Liu , Jason Wang , Xin Chen , Huayan Wang , Rui Zhang