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Current one-stage methods for visual grounding encode the language query as one holistic sentence embedding before fusion with visual feature. Such a formulation does not treat each word of a query sentence on par when modeling language to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Heng Zhao , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yew-Soon Ong

Understanding the semantics of visual scenes is a fundamental challenge in Computer Vision. A key aspect of this challenge is that objects sharing similar semantic meanings or functions can exhibit striking visual differences, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Andrew F. Luo , Margaret M. Henderson , Michael J. Tarr , Leila Wehbe

Automated Audio Captioning is a cross-modal task, generating natural language descriptions to summarize the audio clips' sound events. However, grounding the actual sound events in the given audio based on its corresponding caption has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Current captioning datasets focus on object-centric captions, describing the visible objects in the image, e.g. "people eating food in a park". Although these datasets are useful to evaluate the ability of Vision & Language models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Michele Cafagna , Kees van Deemter , Albert Gatt

A new trend in the computer vision community is to capture objects of interest following flexible human command represented by a natural language prompt. However, the progress of using language prompts in driving scenarios is stuck in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang , Cheng-zhong Xu , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

Visual transformation reasoning (VTR) is a vital cognitive capability that empowers intelligent agents to understand dynamic scenes, model causal relationships, and predict future states, and thereby guiding actions and laying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yuheng Ji , Yipu Wang , Yuyang Liu , Xiaoshuai Hao , Yue Liu , Yuting Zhao , Huaihai Lyu , Xiaolong Zheng

Tracking by natural language specification is a new rising research topic that aims at locating the target object in the video sequence based on its language description. Compared with traditional bounding box (BBox) based tracking, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xiao Wang , Xiujun Shu , Zhipeng Zhang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

Event cameras provide robust visual signals under fast motion and challenging illumination conditions thanks to their microsecond latency and high dynamic range. However, their unique sensing characteristics and limited labeled data make it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jianwen Cao , Jiaxu Xing , Nico Messikommer , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are novel sensors that report brightness changes in the form of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They have significant advantages over conventional cameras: high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

We present a benchmark suite for visual perception. The benchmark is based on more than 250K high-resolution video frames, all annotated with ground-truth data for both low-level and high-level vision tasks, including optical flow, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Stephan R. Richter , Zeeshan Hayder , Vladlen Koltun

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

The ability to map descriptions of scenes to 3D geometric representations has many applications in areas such as art, education, and robotics. However, prior work on the text to 3D scene generation task has used manually specified object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Angel Chang , Will Monroe , Manolis Savva , Christopher Potts , Christopher D. Manning

This survey provides an overview of the evolution of visually grounded models of spoken language over the last 20 years. Such models are inspired by the observation that when children pick up a language, they rely on a wide range of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Grzegorz Chrupała

This paper presents Text2Traj2Text, a novel learning-by-synthesis framework for captioning possible contexts behind shopper's trajectory data in retail stores. Our work will impact various retail applications that need better customer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Hikaru Asano , Ryo Yonetani , Taiki Sekii , Hiroki Ouchi

3D visual grounding has made notable progress in localizing objects within complex 3D scenes. However, grounding referring expressions beyond objects in 3D scenes remains unexplored. In this paper, we introduce Anywhere3D-Bench, a holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianxu Wang , Zhuofan Zhang , Ziyu Zhu , Yue Fan , Jing Xiong , Pengxiang Li , Xiaojian Ma , Qing Li

Mainstream Scene Text Recognition (STR) algorithms are developed based on RGB cameras which are sensitive to challenging factors such as low illumination, motion blur, and cluttered backgrounds. In this paper, we propose to recognize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xiao Wang , Jingtao Jiang , Dong Li , Futian Wang , Lin Zhu , Yaowei Wang , Yongyong Tian , Jin Tang

Spatio-temporal grounding describes the task of localizing events in space and time, e.g., in video data, based on verbal descriptions only. Models for this task are usually trained with human-annotated sentences and bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Brian Chen , Nina Shvetsova , Andrew Rouditchenko , Daniel Kondermann , Samuel Thomas , Shih-Fu Chang , Rogerio Feris , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne

Event cameras deliver visual data with high temporal resolution, low latency, and minimal redundancy, yet their asynchronous, sparse sequential nature challenges standard tensor-based machine learning (ML). While the recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haiqing Hao , Nikola Zubić , Weihua He , Zhipeng Sui , Davide Scaramuzza , Wenhui Wang

Recognizing and comprehending human actions and gestures is a crucial perception requirement for robots to interact with humans and carry out tasks in diverse domains, including service robotics, healthcare, and manufacturing. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Tristan de Blegiers , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Adeel Yousaf , Mubarak Shah

Current scene perception tools for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) individuals rely on spoken descriptions but lack engaging representations of visually pleasing distant environmental landscapes (Vista spaces). Our proposed Scene2Audio framework…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chitralekha Gupta , Jing Peng , Ashwin Ram , Shreyas Sridhar , Christophe Jouffrais , Suranga Nanayakkara