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For machines to effectively assist humans in challenging visual search tasks, they must differentiate whether a human is simply glancing into a scene (navigational intent) or searching for a target object (informational intent). Previous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansi Sharma , Shuang Chen , Philipp Müller , Maurice Rekrut , Antonio Krüger

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

Visual grounding, which aims to build a correspondence between visual objects and their language entities, plays a key role in cross-modal scene understanding. One promising and scalable strategy for learning visual grounding is to utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Lin Ma , Xuming He

Learning to infer labels in an open world, i.e., in an environment where the target ``labels'' are unknown, is an important characteristic for achieving autonomy. Foundation models, pre-trained on enormous amounts of data, have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sanjoy Kundu , Shubham Trehan , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

Intention-oriented object detection aims to detect desired objects based on specific intentions or requirements. For instance, when we desire to "lie down and rest", we instinctively seek out a suitable option such as a "bed" or a "sofa"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Mengxue Qu , Yu Wu , Wu Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Jingkuan Song , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Egocentric video grounding is a crucial task for embodied intelligence applications, distinct from exocentric video moment localization. Existing methods primarily focus on the distributional differences between egocentric and exocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yisen Feng , Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

Multimodal AI agents are increasingly automating complex real-world workflows that involve online web execution. However, current web-agent benchmarks suffer from a critical limitation: they focus entirely on web-based interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shoubin Yu , Lei Shu , Antoine Yang , Yao Fu , Srinivas Sunkara , Maria Wang , Jindong Chen , Mohit Bansal , Boqing Gong

The ability to anticipate human-object interactions is highly desirable in an intelligent assistive system in order to guide users during daily life activities and understand their short and long-term goals. Creating systems with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daniele Materia , Francesco Ragusa , Giovanni Maria Farinella

The ability to actively ground task instructions from an egocentric view is crucial for AI agents to accomplish tasks or assist humans virtually. One important step towards this goal is to localize and track key active objects that undergo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Te-Lin Wu , Yu Zhou , Nanyun Peng

Recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have opened new avenues for applications in Embodied AI. Building on previous work, EgoThink, we introduce VidEgoThink, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Sijie Cheng , Kechen Fang , Yangyang Yu , Sicheng Zhou , Bohao Li , Ye Tian , Tingguang Li , Lei Han , Yang Liu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently shown promising results in traditional downstream tasks. Evaluation studies have emerged to assess their abilities, with the majority focusing on the third-person perspective, and only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Sijie Cheng , Zhicheng Guo , Jingwen Wu , Kechen Fang , Peng Li , Huaping Liu , Yang Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable video reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks. However, their ability to understand human intent at a fine-grained level in egocentric videos remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ye Pan , Chi Kit Wong , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Hanqian Li , Jiahao Huo , Jiacheng Chen , Lutao Jiang , Xu Zheng , Xuming Hu

Affordance grounding, a task to ground (i.e., localize) action possibility region in objects, which faces the challenge of establishing an explicit link with object parts due to the diversity of interactive affordance. Human has the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes. Existing methods rely on a pre-defined Object Lookup Table (OLT) to query Visual Language Models (VLMs) for reasoning about object locations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wenyuan Huang , Zhao Wang , Zhou Wei , Ting Huang , Fang Zhao , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

Children acquire language grounding with remarkable robustness from limited visuo-linguistic input in ways that surpass today's best large multimodal models. Recent research suggests current vision-language models (VLMs) trained on curated…

Despite extensive efforts on egocentric video datasets and benchmarks, understanding users' internal states, which is crucial for enabling seamless AI assistant experiences, remains largely overlooked. In this work, we introduce…

Egocentric video-language pretraining has significantly advanced video representation learning. Humans perceive and interact with a fully 3D world, developing spatial awareness that extends beyond text-based understanding. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Boshen Xu , Yuting Mei , Xinbi Liu , Sipeng Zheng , Qin Jin

Egocentric video reasoning centers on an unobservable agent behind the camera who dynamically shapes the environment, requiring inference of hidden intentions and recognition of fine-grained interactions. This core challenge limits current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Baoqi Pei , Yifei Huang , Jilan Xu , Yuping He , Guo Chen , Fei Wu , Yu Qiao , Jiangmiao Pang

A core task in embodied intelligence is ego-centric 3D visual grounding. Existing methods typically adopt two-stage, heterogeneous pipelines that pair a detector with a separate grounding model. Incompatible decoders and box heads hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yani Zhang , Dongming Wu , Hao Shi , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang , Xingping Dong

Egocentric interaction perception is one of the essential branches in investigating human-environment interaction, which lays the basis for developing next-generation intelligent systems. However, existing egocentric interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yuejiao Su , Yi Wang , Qiongyang Hu , Chuang Yang , Lap-Pui Chau