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Visual grounding aims to identify objects or regions in a scene based on natural language descriptions, essential for spatially aware perception in autonomous driving. However, existing visual grounding tasks typically depend on bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhan Shi , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) is a critical capability for open-world embodied AI. However, existing methods are fundamentally bottlenecked by the poor quality of open-vocabulary 3D proposals, suffering from inaccurate categories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yufei Yin , Jie Zheng , Qianke Meng , Zhou Yu , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Min Tan , Yuling Xi , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv

The growing availability of co-located geospatial data spanning aerial imagery, street-level views, elevation models, text, and geographic coordinates offers a unique opportunity for multimodal representation learning. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guillaume Astruc , Eduard Trulls , Jan Hosang , Loic Landrieu , Paul-Edouard Sarlin

While current multimodal models can answer questions based on 2D images, they lack intrinsic 3D object perception, limiting their ability to comprehend spatial relationships and depth cues in 3D scenes. In this work, we propose N3D-VLM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuxin Wang , Lei Ke , Boqiang Zhang , Tianyuan Qu , Hanxun Yu , Zhenpeng Huang , Meng Yu , Dan Xu , Dong Yu

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

In this work, we explore neat yet effective Transformer-based frameworks for visual grounding. The previous methods generally address the core problem of visual grounding, i.e., multi-modal fusion and reasoning, with manually-designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Daqing Liu , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Yanyong Zhang , Houqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with 3D environments is challenging. Existing approaches extract point clouds either from ground truth (GT) geometry or 3D scenes reconstructed by auxiliary models. Text-image aligned 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tao Chu , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Qiong Liu , Jiaqi Wang

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has achieved impressive performance on various cross-modal downstream tasks. However, most existing methods can only learn from aligned image-caption data and rely heavily on expensive regional features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Wei Li , Can Gao , Guocheng Niu , Xinyan Xiao , Hao Liu , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haoyuan Li , Wen Yang , Fang Xu , Hong Tan , Haijian Zhang , Shengyang Li , Gui-Song Xia

3D vision-language (VL) reasoning has gained significant attention due to its potential to bridge the 3D physical world with natural language descriptions. Existing approaches typically follow task-specific, highly specialized paradigms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hao Liu , Yanni Ma , Yan Liu , Haihong Xiao , Ying He

The 3D weakly-supervised visual grounding task aims to localize oriented 3D boxes in point clouds based on natural language descriptions without requiring annotations to guide model learning. This setting presents two primary challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaoqi Li , Jiaming Liu , Nuowei Han , Liang Heng , Yandong Guo , Hao Dong , Yang Liu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims at localizing 3D object based on textual descriptions. Conventional supervised methods for 3DVG often necessitate extensive annotations and a predefined vocabulary, which can be restrictive. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhihao Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chun-Mei Feng , Hengshuang Zhao , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Language grounding is an active field aiming at enriching textual representations with visual information. Generally, textual and visual elements are embedded in the same representation space, which implicitly assumes a one-to-one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Patrick Bordes , Eloi Zablocki , Laure Soulier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Patrick Gallinari

Functionality segmentation in 3D scenes requires an agent to ground implicit natural-language instructions into precise masks of fine-grained interactive elements. Existing methods rely on fragmented pipelines that suffer from visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiaying Lin , Dan Xu

3D visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects or regions within 3D scenes guided by natural language descriptions. While indoor 3D VG has advanced, outdoor 3D VG remains underexplored due to two challenges: (1) large-scale outdoor LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yeong-Seung Baek , Heung-Seon Oh

Open-world 3D scene understanding is a critical challenge that involves recognizing and distinguishing diverse objects and categories from 3D data, such as point clouds, without relying on manual annotations. Traditional methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuru Wang , Pei Liu , Songtao Wang , Zehan Zhang , Xinyan Lu , Changwei Cai , Hao Li , Fu Liu , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

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

We introduce spatially grounded contextual image generation, a controllable image generation task that reframes the conditioning paradigm. Instead of supplying a reference image and a global text prompt through two separate encoders, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiayun Wang , Yu Wang , Weijie Gan , Zhenting Wang , Wei Wei

Complex 3D scene understanding has gained increasing attention, with scene encoding strategies playing a crucial role in this success. However, the optimal scene encoding strategies for various scenarios remain unclear, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yunze Man , Shuhong Zheng , Zhipeng Bao , Martial Hebert , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), which aims to ground target clips from videos (such as consecutive intervals or disjoint shots) according to custom language queries (e.g., sentences or words), is key for video browsing on social media. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Joya Chen , Shraman Pramanick , Difei Gao , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Rui Yan , Mike Zheng Shou