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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

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methodsusually rely on fully convolutional networks in order to ob-tain class activation maps(CAMs) of targeted labels. How-ever, these networks always highlight the most discriminativeparts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziyi Kou , Wentian Zhao , Guofeng Cui , Shaojie Wang

Affordance grounding aims to locate objects' "action possibilities" regions, which is an essential step toward embodied intelligence. Due to the diversity of interactive affordance, the uniqueness of different individuals leads to diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

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

Understanding what objects could furnish for humans-namely, learning object affordance-is the crux to bridge perception and action. In the vision community, prior work primarily focuses on learning object affordance with dense (e.g., at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chao Xu , Yixin Chen , He Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Self-supervised contrastive learning has demonstrated great potential in learning visual representations. Despite their success in various downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection, self-supervised pre-training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Di Wu , Siyuan Li , Zelin Zang , Stan Z. Li

Visual affordance grounding aims to segment all possible interaction regions between people and objects from an image/video, which is beneficial for many applications, such as robot grasping and action recognition. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

Semantic segmentation in autonomous driving predominantly focuses on learning from large-scale data with a closed set of known classes without considering unknown objects. Motivated by safety reasons, we address the video class agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Mennatullah Siam , Alex Kendall , Martin Jagersand

Humans can perform previously unexperienced interactions with novel objects simply by observing others engage with them. Weakly-supervised affordance grounding mimics this process by learning to locate object regions that enable actions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiajin Tang , Zhengxuan Wei , Ge Zheng , Sibei Yang

We study weakly-supervised video object grounding: given a video segment and a corresponding descriptive sentence, the goal is to localize objects that are mentioned from the sentence in the video. During training, no object bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Luowei Zhou , Nathan Louis , Jason J. Corso

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Weakly-Supervised Change Detection (WSCD) aims to distinguish specific object changes (e.g., objects appearing or disappearing) from background variations (e.g., environmental changes due to light, weather, or seasonal shifts) in paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhenghui Zhao , Chen Wu , Di Wang , Hongruixuan Chen , Cuiqun Chen , Zhuo Zheng , Bo Du , Liangpei Zhang

Different from general object detection, moving infrared small target detection faces huge challenges due to tiny target size and weak background contrast.Currently, most existing methods are fully-supervised, heavily relying on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weiwei Duan , Luping Ji , Shengjia Chen , Sicheng Zhu , Jianghong Huang , Mao Ye

We introduce the task of weakly supervised learning for detecting human and object interactions in videos. Our task poses unique challenges as a system does not know what types of human-object interactions are present in a video or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shuang Li , Yilun Du , Antonio Torralba , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

Understanding human behavior is an important problem in the pursuit of visual intelligence. A challenge in this endeavor is the extensive and costly effort required to accurately label action segments. To address this issue, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seth Z. Zhao , Reza Ghoddoosian , Isht Dwivedi , Nakul Agarwal , Behzad Dariush

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

A core problem of Embodied AI is to learn object manipulation from observation, as humans do. To achieve this, it is important to localize 3D object affordance areas through observation such as images (3D affordance grounding) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xinhang Wan , Dongqiang Gou , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Xuming He

Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) refers to the task of discriminating the whole region of objects from the background within a scene without relying on labeled datasets, which benefits the task of bounding-box-level localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

Grounding 3D object affordance seeks to locate objects' ''action possibilities'' regions in the 3D space, which serves as a link between perception and operation for embodied agents. Existing studies primarily focus on connecting visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yuhang Yang , Wei Zhai , Hongchen Luo , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

Self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL) has achieved significant milestones in remote sensing image (RSI) understanding. Its essence lies in designing an unsupervised instance discrimination pretext task to extract image features from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhen Ren , Chao Tao , Yunsheng Zhang , Chengli Peng , Haifeng Li