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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

Current visual grounding models are either based on a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that performs auto-regressive decoding, which is slow and risks hallucinations, or on re-aligning an LLM with vision features to learn new special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Weitai Kang , Jason Kuen , Mengwei Ren , Zijun Wei , Yan Yan , Kangning Liu

Remote sensing (RS) visual grounding aims to use natural language expression to locate specific objects (in the form of the bounding box or segmentation mask) in RS images, enhancing human interaction with intelligent RS interpretation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yue Zhou , Mengcheng Lan , Xiang Li , Litong Feng , Yiping Ke , Xue Jiang , Qingyun Li , Xue Yang , Wayne Zhang

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

In this paper, we explore a novel task named visual Relation Grounding in Videos (vRGV). The task aims at spatio-temporally localizing the given relations in the form of subject-predicate-object in the videos, so as to provide supportive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Junbin Xiao , Xindi Shang , Xun Yang , Sheng Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

Remote sensing (RS) large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown strong promise across visual grounding (VG) tasks. However, existing RS VG datasets predominantly rely on explicit referring expressions-such as relative position, relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Jue Chen , Zilun Zhang , Penghui Huang , Ran Ding , Zhentao Zou , PengFei Gao , Yuchen Wei , Ke Li , Xue Yang , Xue Jiang , Hongxin Yang , Jonathan Li

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance on tasks such as visual grounding and visual question answering. However, the reasoning processes of these models remain largely opaque;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Haobo Yuan , Yueyi Sun , Yanwei Li , Tao Zhang , Xueqing Deng , Henghui Ding , Lu Qi , Anran Wang , Xiangtai Li , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to locate the most relevant region in an image, based on a flexible natural language query but not a pre-defined label, thus it can be a more useful technique than object detection in practice. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu , Guanghui Xu , Zhuliang Yu , Yanwu Xu , Kui Jia , Mingkui Tan

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Multi-image reasoning and grounding require understanding complex cross-image relationships at both object levels and image levels. Current Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) face two critical challenges: the lack of cross-image reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lihao Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Xintian Shen , Hao Ma , Tao Wei

Recently, researchers have attempted to investigate the capability of LLMs in handling videos and proposed several video LLM models. However, the ability of LLMs to handle video grounding (VG), which is an important time-related video task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Feng , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zeyang Zhang , Houlun Chen , Zihan Song , Yuwei Zhou , Yuekui Yang , Haiyang Wu , Wenwu Zhu

Medical Visual Grounding (MVG) aims to identify diagnostically relevant phrases from free-text radiology reports and localize their corresponding regions in medical images, providing interpretable visual evidence to support clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yifan Gao , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou , Ke Zou , Yizhe Zhang , Huazhu Fu

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo

Visual dialogue is a challenging task since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions on the basis of understanding the visual environment. Previous studies focus on the implicit exploration of multimodal co-reference by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Feilong Chen , Fandong Meng , Xiuyi Chen , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

Visual Grounding (VG) aims at localizing target objects from an image based on given expressions and has made significant progress with the development of detection and vision transformer. However, existing VG methods tend to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Menghao Li , Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Shuchang Lyu , Guangliang Cheng , Xiangtai Li , Binghao Liu , Qi Zhao

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown great promise in language-guided perceptual tasks such as recognition, segmentation, and object detection. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xu Cao , Yifan Shen , Bolin Lai , Wenqian Ye , Yunsheng Ma , Joerg Heintz , Jintai Chen , Meihuan Huang , Jianguo Cao , Aidong Zhang , James M. Rehg

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLMs) leverages Large Language Models as a cognitive framework for diverse visual-language tasks. Recent efforts have been made to equip MLLMs with visual perceiving and grounding capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwen He , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Jun-Yan He , Jin-Peng Lan , Bin Luo , Xuansong Xie

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) offer remarkable benefits for a variety of vision-language tasks. However, a challenge hindering their application in real-world scenarios, particularly regarding safety, robustness, and reliability, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiaying Lu , Jinmeng Rao , Kezhen Chen , Xiaoyuan Guo , Yawen Zhang , Baochen Sun , Carl Yang , Jie Yang

Despite the existing evolution of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), a non-neglectable limitation remains in their struggle with visual text grounding, especially in text-rich images of documents. Document images, such as scanned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ming Li , Ruiyi Zhang , Jian Chen , Chenguang Wang , Jiuxiang Gu , Yufan Zhou , Franck Dernoncourt , Wanrong Zhu , Tianyi Zhou , Tong Sun