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Visual grounding focuses on detecting objects from images based on language expressions. Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced visual grounding performance by training large models with large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yangxiao Lu , Ruosen Li , Liqiang Jing , Jikai Wang , Xinya Du , Yunhui Guo , Nicholas Ruozzi , Yu Xiang

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

Most existing 3D referring expression segmentation (3DRES) methods rely on dense, high-quality point clouds, while real-world agents such as robots and mobile phones operate with only a few sparse RGB views and strict latency constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Changli Wu , Haodong Wang , Jiayi Ji , Yutian Yao , Chunsai Du , Jihua Kang , Yanwei Fu , Liujuan Cao

Different from Object Detection, Visual Grounding deals with detecting a bounding box for each text-image pair. This one box for each text-image data provides sparse supervision signals. Although previous works achieve impressive results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weitai Kang , Gaowen Liu , Mubarak Shah , Yan Yan

In this paper, we propose Contextual Guided Segmentation (CGS) framework for video instance segmentation in three passes. In the first pass, i.e., preview segmentation, we propose Instance Re-Identification Flow to estimate main properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Trung-Nghia Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran

In this work, we address the challenging task of Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension (GREC). Compared to the classic Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) that focuses on single-target expressions, GREC extends the scope to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yaxian Wang , Henghui Ding , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Bifan Wei , Jun Liu

The contemporary visual captioning models frequently hallucinate objects that are not actually in a scene, due to the visual misclassification or over-reliance on priors that resulting in the semantic inconsistency between the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Wenqiao Zhang , Haochen Shi , Siliang Tang , Jun Xiao , Qiang Yu , Yueting Zhuang

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

Various contextual information has been employed by many approaches for visual detection tasks. However, most of the existing approaches only focus on specific context for specific tasks. In this paper, GMC, a general framework is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xuan Wang , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

Humans naturally perceive the geometric structure and semantic content of a 3D world as intertwined dimensions, enabling coherent and accurate understanding of complex scenes. However, most prior approaches prioritize training large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Hao Li , Zhengyu Zou , Fangfu Liu , Xuanyang Zhang , Fangzhou Hong , Yukang Cao , Yushi Lan , Manyuan Zhang , Gang Yu , Dingwen Zhang , Ziwei Liu

Understanding field imagery such as detecting plants and distinguishing individual crop and weed instances is a central challenge in precision agriculture. Despite progress in vision-language tasks like captioning and visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammadreza Haghighat , Alzayat Saleh , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

The ability of gaze estimation models to generalize is often significantly hindered by various factors unrelated to gaze, especially when the training dataset is limited. Current strategies aim to address this challenge through different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Pengwei Yin , Jingjing Wang , Guanzhong Zeng , Di Xie , Jiang Zhu

Grounded Situation Recognition (GSR) is capable of recognizing and interpreting visual scenes in a contextually intuitive way, yielding salient activities (verbs) and the involved entities (roles) depicted in images. In this work, we focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ruiping Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Junwei Zheng , Ke Cao , Yufan Chen , Kailun Yang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

Current vision-language pre-training (VLP) paradigms excel at global scene understanding but struggle with instance-level reasoning due to global-only supervision. We introduce InstAP, an Instance-Aware Pre-training framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Jingjing Pan , Mustafa Erdogan , Mingfang Zhang , Betty Le Dem , Norimasa Kobori , Quan Kong

Visual grounding (VG) aims to localize target objects in an image based on natural language descriptions. In this paper, we propose AerialVG, a new task focusing on visual grounding from aerial views. Compared to traditional VG, AerialVG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Junli Liu , Qizhi Chen , Zhigang Wang , Yiwen Tang , Yiting Zhang , Chi Yan , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li , Bin Zhao

Exploring dense matching between the current frame and past frames for long-range context modeling, memory-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in video object segmentation (VOS) recently. Nevertheless, due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo , Chuanxin Tang , Xiyang Dai , Yucheng Zhao , Yujia Xie , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

Remote sensing (RS) visual grounding aims to use natural language expression to locate specific objects (in the form of the bounding box or segmentation mask) in RS images, enhancing human interaction with intelligent RS interpretation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yue Zhou , Mengcheng Lan , Xiang Li , Litong Feng , Yiping Ke , Xue Jiang , Qingyun Li , Xue Yang , Wayne Zhang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a challenging task that requires an algorithm to segment objects referred by free-form language expressions. Despite significant progress in recent years, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yong Xien Chng , Henry Zheng , Yizeng Han , Xuchong Qiu , Gao Huang