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Visual grounding aims to localize the object referred to in an image based on a natural language query. Although progress has been made recently, accurately localizing target objects within multiple-instance distractions (multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Jiahua Zhang , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Compared with the visual grounding on 2D images, the natural-language-guided 3D object localization on point clouds is more challenging. In this paper, we propose a new model, named InstanceRefer, to achieve a superior 3D visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Zhihao Yuan , Xu Yan , Yinghong Liao , Ruimao Zhang , Sheng Wang , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui

Grounding language in the physical world requires AI systems to interpret references that emerge dynamically during conversation. While current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static image tasks, they struggle to resolve ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Lubos Marcinek , Anna Klezovich , Iolanda Leite , Jonas Beskow

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize the referent of natural language referring expressions through two core tasks: Referring Expression Comprehension (3DREC) and Segmentation (3DRES). While existing methods achieve high accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wenbin Tan , Jiawen Lin , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yong Xie , Yachao Zhang , Yanyun Qu

3D visual grounding consists of identifying the instance in a 3D scene which is referred by an accompanying language description. While several architectures have been proposed within the commonly employed grounding-by-selection framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Sombit Dey , Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

Monocular 3D visual grounding is a novel task that aims to locate 3D objects in RGB images using text descriptions with explicit geometry information. Despite the inclusion of geometry details in the text, we observe that the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yuzhen Li , Min Liu , Yuan Bian , Xueping Wang , Zhaoyang Li , Gen Li , Yaonan Wang

3D vision-language grounding, which focuses on aligning language with the 3D physical environment, stands as a cornerstone in the development of embodied agents. In comparison to recent advancements in the 2D domain, grounding language in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Chen , Huangyue Yu , Yan Wang , Xuesong Niu , Tengyu Liu , Qing Li , Siyuan Huang

Recently proposed fine-grained 3D visual grounding is an essential and challenging task, whose goal is to identify the 3D object referred by a natural language sentence from other distractive objects of the same category. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Dailan He , Yusheng Zhao , Junyu Luo , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Aixi Zhang , Si Liu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in 3D scenes based on text prompts, which is essential for applications such as robotics. However, existing 3DVG methods encounter two main challenges: first, they struggle to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Liwei Liao , Xufeng Li , Xiaoyun Zheng , Boning Liu , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Traditional Visual Grounding (VG) predominantly relies on textual descriptions to localize objects, a paradigm that inherently struggles with linguistic ambiguity and often ignores non-verbal deictic cues prevalent in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ling Li , Bowen Liu , Zinuo Zhan , Peng Jie , Jianhui Zhong , Kenglun Chang , Zhidong Deng

Grounding referring expressions in RGBD image has been an emerging field. We present a novel task of 3D visual grounding in single-view RGBD image where the referred objects are often only partially scanned due to occlusion. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Haolin Liu , Anran Lin , Xiaoguang Han , Lei Yang , Yizhou Yu , Shuguang Cui

Progress in 3D vision-language learning has been hindered by the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets. We introduce UniVLG, a unified architecture for 2D and 3D vision-language understanding that bridges the gap between existing 2D-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ayush Jain , Alexander Swerdlow , Yuzhou Wang , Sergio Arnaud , Ada Martin , Alexander Sax , Franziska Meier , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Most models tasked to ground referential utterances in 2D and 3D scenes learn to select the referred object from a pool of object proposals provided by a pre-trained detector. This is limiting because an utterance may refer to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ayush Jain , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Ishita Mediratta , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Thanks to its precise spatial referencing, 3D point cloud visual grounding is essential for deep understanding and dynamic interaction in 3D environments, encompassing 3D Referring Expression Comprehension (3DREC) and Segmentation (3DRES).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haojia Lin , Yongdong Luo , Xiawu Zheng , Lijiang Li , Fei Chao , Taisong Jin , Donghao Luo , Yan Wang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Referring expression grounding aims at locating certain objects or persons in an image with a referring expression, where the key challenge is to comprehend and align various types of information from visual and textual domain, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Xihui Liu , Zihao Wang , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

We study embodied reference understanding, the task of locating referents using embodied gestural signals and language references. Human studies have revealed that objects referred to or pointed to do not lie on the elbow-wrist line, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yang Li , Xiaoxue Chen , Hao Zhao , Jiangtao Gong , Guyue Zhou , Federico Rossano , Yixin Zhu

We propose Reasoning to Ground (R2G), a neural symbolic model that grounds the target objects within 3D scenes in a reasoning manner. In contrast to prior works, R2G explicitly models the 3D scene with a semantic concept-based scene graph;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yixuan Li , Zan Wang , Wei Liang

Generalization in embodied AI is hindered by the "seeing-to-doing gap," which stems from data scarcity and embodiment heterogeneity. To address this, we pioneer "pointing" as a unified, embodiment-agnostic intermediate representation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yifu Yuan , Haiqin Cui , Yaoting Huang , Yibin Chen , Fei Ni , Zibin Dong , Pengyi Li , Yan Zheng , Hongyao Tang , Jianye Hao

Estimating 3D hand pose from monocular RGB images is fundamental for applications in AR/VR, human-computer interaction, and sign language understanding. In this work we focus on a scenario where a discrete set of gesture labels is available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Rui Hong , Jana Kosecka

We present a novel task for cross-dataset visual grounding in 3D scenes (Cross3DVG), which overcomes limitations of existing 3D visual grounding models, specifically their restricted 3D resources and consequent tendencies of overfitting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Taiki Miyanishi , Daichi Azuma , Shuhei Kurita , Motoki Kawanabe