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Perception is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision, encompassing a diverse set of subtasks that can be systematically categorized into four distinct groups based on two dimensions: prediction type and instruction type.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wentao Xiang , Haoxian Tan , Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Dengjie Li , Yujiu Yang

In this paper, we present a neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image. The state-of-the-art methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities by integrating visual perception with language understanding, enabling applications such as image-grounded dialogue, visual question answering, and scientific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Tianyi Bai , Zengjie Hu , Fupeng Sun , Jiantao Qiu , Yizhen Jiang , Guangxin He , Bohan Zeng , Conghui He , Binhang Yuan , Wentao Zhang

Visual grounding, the task of linking textual queries to specific regions within images, plays a pivotal role in vision-language integration. Existing methods typically rely on extensive task-specific annotations and fine-tuning, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Liqin Luo , Guangyao Chen , Xiawu Zheng , Yongxing Dai , Yixiong Zou , Yonghong Tian

Recently, reasoning-based MLLMs have achieved a degree of success in generating long-form textual reasoning chains. However, they still struggle with complex tasks that necessitate dynamic and iterative focusing on and revisiting of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chaoya Jiang , Yongrui Heng , Wei Ye , Han Yang , Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Shikun Zhang

We propose a new spatial memory module and a spatial reasoner for the Visual Grounding (VG) task. The goal of this task is to find a certain object in an image based on a given textual query. Our work focuses on integrating the regions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Thierry Deruyttere , Guillem Collell , Marie-Francine Moens

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to localize specific objects in an image according to natural language expressions, serving as a fundamental task in vision-language understanding. However, existing VG benchmarks are mostly derived from datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianyi Zhao , Jiawen Xi , Linhui Xiao , Junnan Li , Xue Yang , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

Counting is a fundamental operation for various real-world visual tasks, requiring both object recognition and robust counting capabilities. Despite their advanced visual perception, large vision-language models (LVLMs) are known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Muhammad Fetrat Qharabagh , Mohammadreza Ghofrani , Kimon Fountoulakis

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

The Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) has enhanced the performance of various downstream tasks in visual-language understanding. Most existing approaches encode images and videos into separate feature spaces, which are then fed as inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bin Lin , Yang Ye , Bin Zhu , Jiaxi Cui , Munan Ning , Peng Jin , Li Yuan

Complex Visual Question Answering (Complex VQA) tasks, which demand sophisticated multi-modal reasoning and external knowledge integration, present significant challenges for existing large vision-language models (LVLMs) often limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jingwei Peng , Jiehao Chen , Mateo Alejandro Rojas , Meilin Zhang

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos given natural language queries. Despite recent progress with large vision-language models (LVLMs) and instruction-tuning, existing approaches often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ruizhe Chen , Zhiting Fan , Tianze Luo , Heqing Zou , Zhaopeng Feng , Guiyang Xie , Hansheng Zhang , Zhuochen Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Huaijian Zhang

Visual reasoning, the capability to interpret visual input in response to implicit text query through multi-step reasoning, remains a challenge for deep learning models due to the lack of relevant benchmarks. Previous work in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that integrate visual and textual reasoning leverage chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to tackle complex visual tasks, yet continue to exhibit visual hallucinations and an over-reliance on textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jing Bi , Guangyu Sun , Ali Vosoughi , Chen Chen , Chenliang Xu

While numerous recent benchmarks focus on evaluating generic Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they do not effectively address the specific challenges of geospatial applications. Generic VLM benchmarks are not designed to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Muhammad Sohail Danish , Muhammad Akhtar Munir , Syed Roshaan Ali Shah , Kartik Kuckreja , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Paolo Fraccaro , Alexandre Lacoste , Salman Khan

Visual relationship detection aims to reason over relationships among salient objects in images, which has drawn increasing attention over the past few years. Inspired by human reasoning mechanisms, it is believed that external visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Meng-Jiun Chiou , Roger Zimmermann , Jiashi Feng

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved notable performance in computer vision tasks that require reasoning across visual and textual modalities, yet their capabilities are limited to their pre-trained data, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mirco Bonomo , Simone Bianco

In vision-language models (VLMs), misalignment between textual descriptions and visual coordinates often induces hallucinations. This issue becomes particularly severe in dense prediction tasks such as spatial-temporal video grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiaowen Zhang , Zhi Gao , Licheng Jiao , Lingling Li , Qing Li

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at descriptive tasks within images but often struggle with precise object localization, a critical element for reliable visual interpretation. In contrast, traditional object detection models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingru Yang , Huan Yu , Yang Jingxin , Chentianye Xu , Yin Biao , Yu Sun , Shengfeng He