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Visual retrieval-augmented generation (VRAG) augments vision-language models (VLMs) with external visual knowledge to ground reasoning and reduce hallucinations. Yet current VRAG systems often fail to reliably perceive and integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yubo Sun , Chunyi Peng , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Zhenghao Liu , Chi Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end model, namely Single-Stage Grounding network (SSG), to localize the referent given a referring expression within an image. Different from previous multi-stage models which rely on object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Xinpeng Chen , Lin Ma , Jingyuan Chen , Zequn Jie , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

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

We target at the task of weakly-supervised video object grounding (WSVOG), where only video-sentence annotations are available during model learning. It aims to localize objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Wang , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

Advances in multimodal pre-training have propelled object-level foundation models, such as Grounding DINO and Florence-2, in tasks like visual grounding and object detection. However, interpreting these models' decisions has grown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Ruoyu Chen , Siyuan Liang , Jingzhi Li , Shiming Liu , Maosen Li , Zhen Huang , Hua Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to locate the most relevant region in an image, based on a flexible natural language query but not a pre-defined label, thus it can be a more useful technique than object detection in practice. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu , Guanghui Xu , Zhuliang Yu , Yanwu Xu , Kui Jia , Mingkui Tan

3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

Learning a discriminative model that distinguishes the specified target from surrounding distractors across frames is essential for generic object tracking (GOT). Dynamic adaptation of target representation against distractors remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shih-Fang Chen , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Yen-Yu Lin

We introduce a novel task of 3D visual grounding in monocular RGB images using language descriptions with both appearance and geometry information. Specifically, we build a large-scale dataset, Mono3DRefer, which contains 3D object targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Zhan , Yuan Yuan , Zhitong Xiong

Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved impressive performance on a variety of vision-language tasks, yet their fine-grained visual perception and precise spatial reasoning remain limited. In this work, we introduce DiG (Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhou Tao , Shida Wang , Yongxiang Hua , Haoyu Cao , Linli Xu

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot transfer capabilities in image-level visual perception. However, these models have shown limited performance in instance-level tasks that demand precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Lingfeng Yang , Yueze Wang , Xiang Li , Xinlong Wang , Jian Yang

Visual Grounding (VG) aims at localizing target objects from an image based on given expressions and has made significant progress with the development of detection and vision transformer. However, existing VG methods tend to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Menghao Li , Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Shuchang Lyu , Guangliang Cheng , Xiangtai Li , Binghao Liu , Qi Zhao

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

3D visual grounding aims to locate the referred target object in 3D point cloud scenes according to a free-form language description. Previous methods mostly follow a two-stage paradigm, i.e., language-irrelevant detection and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Junyu Luo , Jiahui Fu , Xianghao Kong , Chen Gao , Haibing Ren , Hao Shen , Huaxia Xia , Si Liu

Visual grounding is a common vision task that involves grounding descriptive sentences to the corresponding regions of an image. Most existing methods use independent image-text encoding and apply complex hand-crafted modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ming Dai , Lingfeng Yang , Yihao Xu , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang

Monocular 3D object detection typically relies on pseudo-labeling techniques to reduce dependency on real-world annotations. Recent advances demonstrate that deterministic linguistic cues can serve as effective auxiliary weak supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chupeng Liu , Jiyong Rao , Shangquan Sun , Runkai Zhao , Weidong Cai

Video grounding aims to localize the target moment in an untrimmed video corresponding to a given sentence query. Existing methods typically select the best prediction from a set of predefined proposals or directly regress the target span…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiao Liang , Tao Shi , Yaoyuan Liang , Te Tao , Shao-Lun Huang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a promising paradigm for optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in complex reasoning tasks. However, traditional outcome-based RL approaches often suffer from reward sparsity and inefficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhao Wang , Ziliang Zhao , Zhicheng Dou