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3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

Today's most accurate language models are trained on orders of magnitude more language data than human language learners receive - but with no supervision from other sensory modalities that play a crucial role in human learning. Can we make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Chengxu Zhuang , Evelina Fedorenko , Jacob Andreas

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task -- given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu Zhao , Wei-Ning Chen , Huseyin Atahan Inan , Samuel Kessler , Lu Wang , Lukas Wutschitz , Fangkai Yang , Chaoyun Zhang , Pasquale Minervini , Saravan Rajmohan , Robert Sim

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

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

Visual text, a pivotal element in both document and scene images, speaks volumes and attracts significant attention in the computer vision domain. Beyond visual text detection and recognition, the field of visual text processing has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yan Shu , Weichao Zeng , Zhenhang Li , Fangmin Zhao , Yu Zhou

Understanding human instructions is essential for enabling smooth human-robot interaction. In this work, we focus on object grounding, i.e., localizing an object of interest in a visual scene (e.g., an image) based on verbal human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Joel Alberto Santos , Zongwei Wu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Timofte

Visual grounding has attracted wide attention thanks to its broad application in various visual language tasks. Although visual grounding has made significant research progress, existing methods ignore the promotion effect of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Minghong Xie , Mengzhao Wang , Huafeng Li , Yafei Zhang , Dapeng Tao , Zhengtao Yu

Space grounding refers to localizing a set of spatial references described in natural language instructions. Traditional methods often fail to account for complex reasoning -- such as distance, geometry, and inter-object relationships --…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nayoung Oh , Dohyun Kim , Junhyeong Bang , Rohan Paul , Daehyung Park

Visual grounding (VG) aims to locate a specific target in an image based on a given language query. The discriminative information from context is important for distinguishing the target from other objects, particularly for the targets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wei Tang , Liang Li , Xuejing Liu , Lu Jin , Jinhui Tang , Zechao Li

Multiple works have emerged to push the boundaries of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) towards pixel-level understanding. The current trend is to train MLLMs with pixel-level grounding supervision in terms of masks on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mennatullah Siam

When answering questions about an image, it not only needs knowing what -- understanding the fine-grained contents (e.g., objects, relationships) in the image, but also telling why -- reasoning over grounding visual cues to derive the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jianwei Yang , Jiayuan Mao , Jiajun Wu , Devi Parikh , David D. Cox , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Visual grounding is the task of locating objects specified by natural language expressions. Existing methods extend generic object detection frameworks to tackle this task. They typically extract visual and textual features separately using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ruilin Yao , Shengwu Xiong , Yichen Zhao , Yi Rong

We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an evolving research field aimed at enabling machines to answer questions about visual content by integrating image and language processing techniques such as feature extraction, object detection, text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ngoc Dung Huynh , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal , Imran Razzak , Hakim Hacid

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 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

Visual-language grounding aims to establish semantic correspondences between natural language and visual entities, enabling models to accurately identify and localize target objects based on textual instructions. Existing VLG approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Ying Shen

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ke Li , Ting Wang , Di Wang , Yongshan Zhu , Yiming Zhang , Tao Lei , Quan Wang

Visual grounding focuses on detecting objects from images based on language expressions. Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced visual grounding performance by training large models with large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yangxiao Lu , Ruosen Li , Liqiang Jing , Jikai Wang , Xinya Du , Yunhui Guo , Nicholas Ruozzi , Yu Xiang
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