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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…

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Generative world models have shown promise for simulating dynamic environments, yet egocentric video remains challenging due to rapid viewpoint changes, frequent hand-object interactions, and goal-directed procedures whose evolution depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yifan Shen , Jiateng Liu , Xinzhuo Li , Yuanzhe Liu , Bingxuan Li , Houze Yang , Wenqi Jia , Yijiang Li , Tianjiao Yu , James Matthew Rehg , Xu Cao , Ismini Lourentzou

Understanding social interactions from egocentric views is crucial for many applications, ranging from assistive robotics to AR/VR. Key to reasoning about interactions is to understand the body pose and motion of the interaction partner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Siwei Zhang , Qianli Ma , Yan Zhang , Zhiyin Qian , Taein Kwon , Marc Pollefeys , Federica Bogo , Siyu Tang

Grounding 3D object affordance is a task that locates objects in 3D space where they can be manipulated, which links perception and action for embodied intelligence. For example, for an intelligent robot, it is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 He Zhu , Quyu Kong , Kechun Xu , Xunlong Xia , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Recent advances in vision-language reasoning underscore the importance of thinking with images, where models actively ground their reasoning in visual evidence. Yet, prevailing frameworks treat visual actions as optional tools, boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Changpeng Wang , Haozhe Wang , Xi Chen , Junhan Liu , Taofeng Xue , Chong Peng , Donglian Qi , Fangzhen Lin , Yunfeng Yan

Language grounding aims at linking the symbolic representation of language (e.g., words) into the rich perceptual knowledge of the outside world. The general approach is to embed both textual and visual information into a common space -the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hassan Shahmohammadi , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , R. Harald Baayen

Text-goal instance navigation (TGIN) asks an agent to resolve a single, free-form description into actions that reach the correct object instance among same-category distractors. We present \textit{Context-Nav}, which elevates long,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Won Shik Jang , Ue-Hwan Kim

The rapid advancement of vision-language models has catalyzed the emergence of GUI agents, which hold immense potential for automating complex tasks, from online shopping to flight booking, thereby alleviating the burden of repetitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhongyin Zhao , Yuan Liu , Yikun Liu , Haicheng Wang , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Yangxiu You , Zilin Yu , Yang Yu , Jie Zhou

Visual grounding (VG) typically focuses on locating regions of interest within an image using natural language, and most existing VG methods are limited to single-image interpretations. This limits their applicability in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Wenxuan Wang , Zijia Zhao , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Erdong Hu , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Open-Vocabulary 3D object affordance grounding aims to anticipate ``action possibilities'' regions on 3D objects with arbitrary instructions, which is crucial for robots to generically perceive real scenarios and respond to operational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yawen Shao , Wei Zhai , Yuhang Yang , Hongchen Luo , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Visual affordance learning is a key component for robots to understand how to interact with objects. Conventional approaches in this field rely on pre-defined objects and actions, falling short of capturing diverse interactions in realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Driven by the increasing demand for applications in augmented and virtual reality, egocentric action recognition has emerged as a prominent research area. It is typically divided into two subtasks: recognizing the performed behavior (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Huaihai Lyu , Chaofan Chen , Yuheng Ji , Changsheng Xu

Egocentric video understanding is inherently complex due to the dynamic 4D nature of the environment, where camera motion and object displacements necessitate a continuous re-evaluation of spatial relations. In this work, we target a suite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Fangrui Zhu , Yunfeng Xi , Jianmo Ni , Mu Cai , Boqing Gong , Long Zhao , Chen Qu , Ian Miao , Yi Li , Cheng Zhong , Huaizu Jiang , Shwetak Patel

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task -- given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu Zhao , Wei-Ning Chen , Huseyin Atahan Inan , Samuel Kessler , Lu Wang , Lukas Wutschitz , Fangkai Yang , Chaoyun Zhang , Pasquale Minervini , Saravan Rajmohan , Robert Sim

Unlike Object Detection, Visual Grounding task necessitates the detection of an object described by complex free-form language. To simultaneously model such complex semantic and visual representations, recent state-of-the-art studies adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Luowei Zhou , Junyi Wu , Changchang Sun , Yan Yan

Modern neural language models (LMs) are powerful tools for modeling human sentence production and comprehension, and their internal representations are remarkably well-aligned with representations of language in the human brain. But to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Chengxu Zhuang , Evelina Fedorenko , Jacob Andreas

Learning action models from real-world human-centric interaction datasets is important towards building general-purpose intelligent assistants with efficiency. However, most existing datasets only offer specialist interaction category and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Liang Xu , Chengqun Yang , Zili Lin , Fei Xu , Yifan Liu , Congsheng Xu , Yiyi Zhang , Jie Qin , Xingdong Sheng , Yunhui Liu , Xin Jin , Yichao Yan , Wenjun Zeng , Xiaokang Yang

We introduce EgoToM, a new video question-answering benchmark that extends Theory-of-Mind (ToM) evaluation to egocentric domains. Using a causal ToM model, we generate multi-choice video QA instances for the Ego4D dataset to benchmark the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuxuan Li , Vijay Veerabadran , Michael L. Iuzzolino , Brett D. Roads , Asli Celikyilmaz , Karl Ridgeway

Visual grounding is a ubiquitous building block in many vision-language tasks and yet remains challenging due to large variations in visual and linguistic features of grounding entities, strong context effect and the resulting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Xiaodan Zhu , Xuming He

Open-vocabulary 3D visual grounding and reasoning aim to localize objects in a scene based on implicit language descriptions, even when they are occluded. This ability is crucial for tasks such as vision-language navigation and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhenyang Liu , Yikai Wang , Sixiao Zheng , Tongying Pan , Longfei Liang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue