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Weakly supervised visual grounding aims to predict the region in an image that corresponds to a specific linguistic query, where the mapping between the target object and query is unknown in the training stage. The state-of-the-art method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Viet-Quoc Pham , Nao Mishima

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have emerged as a revolutionary approach to automating human-machine interactions, capable of autonomously operating personal devices (e.g., mobile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ziang Ye , Yang Zhang , Wentao Shi , Xiaoyu You , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Small Vision-Language Models (VLMs) provide a computationally efficient alternative to larger models, at the cost of weaker generalization abilities and downstream task performance. These shortcomings could be addressed by test-time scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Desmond Elliott , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications such as disaster management, traffic planning, embodied navigation, world modeling, and geography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy , Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy , Kinga Tshering , S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan , Wahid Faisal , Tasnim Mohiuddin , Md Rizwan Parvez

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for the continuous evolution of GUI agents, yet existing evaluation paradigms face significant limitations. Rule-based methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chaoqun Cui , Jing Huang , Shijing Wang , Liming Zheng , Qingchao Kong , Zhixiong Zeng

Inducing reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is critical for achieving human-level perception and understanding. Existing methods mainly leverage LLM reasoning to analyze parsed visuals, often limited by static perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ziang Yan , Xinhao Li , Yinan He , Zhengrong Yue , Xiangyu Zeng , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yi Wang

Grounding textual phrases in visual content is a meaningful yet challenging problem with various potential applications such as image-text inference or text-driven multimedia interaction. Most of the current existing methods adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Tianshu Yu , Yezhou Yang

Recent advances in GUI agents have achieved remarkable grounding and action-prediction performance, yet existing models struggle with unreliable reward signals and limited online trajectory generation. In this paper, we introduce Orcust, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Junyu Lu , Songxin Zhang , Zejian Xie , Zhuoyang Song , Jiaxing Zhang

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

Digital agents are increasingly employed to automate tasks in interactive digital environments such as web pages, software applications, and operating systems. While text-based agents built on Large Language Models (LLMs) often require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhiqi Ge , Juncheng Li , Xinglei Pang , Minghe Gao , Kaihang Pan , Wang Lin , Hao Fei , Wenqiao Zhang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced rapidly by aligning visual patches with the text embedding space, but a fixed visual-token budget forces images to be resized to a uniform pretraining resolution, often erasing fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zipeng Zhu , Zhanghao Hu , Qinglin Zhu , Yuxi Hong , Yijun Liu , Jingyong Su , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Existing benchmarks for grounding language in interactive environments either lack real-world linguistic elements, or prove difficult to scale up due to substantial human involvement in the collection of data or feedback signals. To bridge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Shunyu Yao , Howard Chen , John Yang , Karthik Narasimhan

The recent DeepSeek-R1 has showcased the emergence of reasoning capabilities in LLMs through reinforcement learning (RL) with rule-based rewards. Despite its success in language models, its application in multi-modal domains, particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhengxi Lu , Yuxiang Chai , Yaxuan Guo , Xi Yin , Liang Liu , Hao Wang , Han Xiao , Shuai Ren , Guanjing Xiong , Hongsheng Li

A central bottleneck for phone-use agents is that controllable, reproducible environments covering real mobile behavior are hard to build at scale. Existing mobile-agent benchmarks have made important progress on evaluation, but they do not…

We present ForceSight, a system for text-guided mobile manipulation that predicts visual-force goals using a deep neural network. Given a single RGBD image combined with a text prompt, ForceSight determines a target end-effector pose in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jeremy A. Collins , Cody Houff , You Liang Tan , Charles C. Kemp

Vision foundation models have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in segmentation tasks for both generic and specialized images. However, a performance gap persists between foundation models and task-specific, specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Chengxi Zeng , David Smithard , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

GUI grounding, which localizes interface elements from screenshots given natural language queries, remains challenging for small icons and dense layouts. Test-time zoom-in methods improve localization by cropping and re-running inference at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Fei Tang , Bofan Chen , Zhengxi Lu , Tongbo Chen , Songqin Nong , Tao Jiang , Wenhao Xu , Weiming Lu , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Yongliang Shen

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have sparked growing interest in using them to automate web tasks, yet their feasibility as independent agents that reason and act purely from visual input remains underexplored. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alexandra Yakovleva , Henrik Pärssinen , Harri Valpola , Juho Kannala , Alexander Ilin

In this paper, we present ZonUI-3B, a lightweight Vision-Language Model (VLM) that can be fully trained on a single consumer-grade GPU (RTX 4090) while delivering performance comparable to significantly larger models on GUI grounding tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 ZongHan Hsieh , Tzer-Jen Wei , ShengJing Yang

We present an UI agent for user interface (UI) interaction tasks, using Vision-Language Model Florence-2-Base. The agent's primary task is identifying the screen coordinates of the UI element corresponding to the user's command. It…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Pawel Pawlowski , Krystian Zawistowski , Wojciech Lapacz , Adam Wiacek , Marcin Skorupa , Sebastien Postansque , Jakub Hoscilowicz