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Tags are pivotal in facilitating the effective distribution of multimedia content in various applications in the contemporary Internet era, such as search engines and recommendation systems. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chen Li , Yixiao Ge , Jiayong Mao , Dian Li , Ying Shan

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong general-purpose capabilities in open-world visual comprehension. However, most existing MLLMs primarily focus on holistic, scene-level understanding, often overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuqian Yuan , Wenqiao Zhang , Xin Li , Shihao Wang , Kehan Li , Wentong Li , Jun Xiao , Lei Zhang , Beng Chin Ooi

We present PandaGPT, an approach to emPower large lANguage moDels with visual and Auditory instruction-following capabilities. Our pilot experiments show that PandaGPT can perform complex tasks such as detailed image description generation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yixuan Su , Tian Lan , Huayang Li , Jialu Xu , Yan Wang , Deng Cai

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to localize an arbitrary number of targets based on a language expression and continuously track them in a video. This intricate task involves reasoning on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Wenjun Huang , Yang Ni , Hanning Chen , Yirui He , Ian Bryant , Yezi Liu , Mohsen Imani

Zero-shot learning (ZL) is crucial for tasks involving unseen categories, such as natural language processing, image classification, and cross-lingual transfer.Current applications often fail to accurately infer and handle new relations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bingchen Liu , Jingchen Li , Yuanyuan Fang , Xin Li

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) is a relatively new concept that has rapidly gained traction as a promising research direction at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. Unlike traditional multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Huu-Thien Tran , Phuoc-Sang Pham , Thai-Son Tran , Khoa Luu

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension aims at localizing bounding boxes in an image corresponding to provided textual prompts, which requires: (i) a fine-grained disentanglement of complex visual scene and textual context, and (ii) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zeyu Han , Fangrui Zhu , Qianru Lao , Huaizu Jiang

Referential grounding in outdoor driving scenes is challenging due to large scene variability, many visually similar objects, and dynamic elements that complicate resolving natural-language references (e.g., "the black car on the right").…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Pranav Saxena , Avigyan Bhattacharya , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang

If robots are to work effectively alongside people, they must be able to interpret natural language references to objects in their 3D environment. Understanding 3D referring expressions is challenging -- it requires the ability to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jiading Fang , Xiangshan Tan , Shengjie Lin , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Hongyuan Mei , Rares Ambrus , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Matthew R Walter

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to track targets specified by language instructions. However, existing RMOT paradigms heavily rely on explicit visual-textual matching and consequently fail to generalize to complex instructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sijia Chen , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Wenbing Tao

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) is a recently-proposed problem aiming to segment out specified camouflaged objects matched with a textual or visual reference. This task involves two major challenges: the COD domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shupeng Cheng , Ge-Peng Ji , Pengda Qin , Deng-Ping Fan , Bowen Zhou , Peng Xu

Language-enabled robots have been widely studied over the past years to enable natural human-robot interaction and teaming in various real-world applications. Language-enabled robots must be able to comprehend referring expressions to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Peng Gao , Ahmed Jaafar , Brian Reily , Christopher Reardon , Hao Zhang

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) aims to track multiple objects based on input textual descriptions. Previous works realize it by simply integrating an extra textual module into the multi-object tracker. However, they typically need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yunhao Du , Cheng Lei , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Zero-shot multi-label recognition (MLR) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces significant challenges without training data, model tuning, or architectural modifications. Existing approaches require prompt tuning or architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kevin Miller , Samarth Mishra , Aditya Gangrade , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate target objects in images given natural language queries without relying on task-specific training data, demanding strong visual understanding capabilities. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yike Wu , Necva Bolucu , Stephen Wan , Dadong Wang , Jiahao Xia , Jian Zhang

The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

Effective cross-modal retrieval is essential for applications like information retrieval and recommendation systems, particularly in specialized domains such as manufacturing, where product information often consists of visual samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Francesco Giuliari , Asif Khan Pattan , Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Fabio Poiesi

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to track multiple objects specified by natural language expressions in videos. With the recent significant progress of one-stage methods, the two-stage Referring-by-Tracking (RBT) paradigm has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Weize Li , Yunhao Du , Qixiang Yin , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4o, Gemini, LLaVA, and Flamingo, have made significant progress in integrating visual and textual modalities, excelling in tasks like visual question answering (VQA), image captioning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Junxiao Xue , Quan Deng , Fei Yu , Yanhao Wang , Jun Wang , Yuehua Li