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We introduce GroundNet, a neural network for referring expression recognition -- the task of localizing (or grounding) in an image the object referred to by a natural language expression. Our approach to this task is the first to rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Volkan Cirik , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Louis-Philippe Morency

Referring Expression Counting (REC) extends class-level object counting to the fine-grained subclass-level, aiming to enumerate objects matching a textual expression that specifies both the class and distinguishing attribute. A fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yuda Zou , Zijian Zhang , Yongchao Xu

Object grounding tasks aim to locate the target object in an image through verbal communications. Understanding human command is an important process needed for effective human-robot communication. However, this is challenging because human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 John Seon Keun Yi , Yoonwoo Kim , Sonia Chernova

Human-centric perceptions play a crucial role in real-world applications. While recent human-centric works have achieved impressive progress, these efforts are often constrained to the visual domain and lack interaction with human…

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Automatically localizing a position based on a few natural language instructions is essential for future robots to communicate and collaborate with humans. To approach this goal, we focus on the text-to-point-cloud cross-modal localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Guangzhi Wang , Hehe Fan , Mohan Kankanhalli

Visual understanding is inherently intention-driven - humans selectively focus on different regions of a scene based on their goals. Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) enable flexible expression of such intentions through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhangquan Chen , Xufang Luo , Dongsheng Li

Scene context is well known to facilitate humans' perception of visible objects. In this paper, we investigate the role of context in Referring Expression Generation (REG) for objects in images, where existing research has often focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Simeon Junker , Sina Zarrieß

Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

Action anticipation is the task of forecasting future activity from a partially observed sequence of events. However, this task is exposed to intrinsic future uncertainty and the difficulty of reasoning upon interconnected actions. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Bardh Prenkaj , Federico Fontana , Luigi Cinque

Object rearrangement has recently emerged as a key competency in robot manipulation, with practical solutions generally involving object detection, recognition, grasping and high-level planning. Goal-images describing a desired scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Walter Goodwin , Sagar Vaze , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

We investigate the problem of video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC), which aims to localize the referent objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video frames. Despite the recent progress, existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Meng Cao , Ji Jiang , Long Chen , Yuexian Zou

We investigate the problem of object referring (OR) i.e. to localize a target object in a visual scene coming with a language description. Humans perceive the world more as continued video snippets than as static images, and describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

The task in referring expression comprehension is to localise the object instance in an image described by a referring expression phrased in natural language. As a language-to-vision matching task, the key to this problem is to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Jiewei Cao , Chunhua Shen , Lianli Gao , Anton van den Hengel

3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-RES) is dedicated to segmenting a specific instance within a 3D space based on a natural language description. However, current approaches are limited to segmenting a single target, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Changli Wu , Yihang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Yiwei Ma , Haowei Wang , Gen Luo , Henghui Ding , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

Recent advances in reasoning language models and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards have significantly enhanced multi-step reasoning capabilities. This progress motivates the extension of reasoning paradigms to remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shuchang Lyu , Haiquan Wen , Guangliang Cheng , Meng Li , Zheng Zhou , You Zhou , Dingding Yao , Zhenwei Shi

Visual grounding is a task to ground referring expressions in images, e.g., localize "the white truck in front of the yellow one". To resolve this task fundamentally, the model should first find out the contextual objects (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Meng Wang , Qianru Sun

Humans refer to objects in their environments all the time, especially in dialogue with other people. We explore generating and comprehending natural language referring expressions for objects in images. In particular, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Licheng Yu , Patrick Poirson , Shan Yang , Alexander C. Berg , Tamara L. Berg

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox