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Over the past decades, the addition of hundreds of sensors to modern vehicles has led to an exponential increase in their capabilities. This allows for novel approaches to interaction with the vehicle that go beyond traditional touch-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Amr Gomaa , Guillermo Reyes , Michael Feld

Language-enabled robots have been widely studied over the past years to enable natural human-robot interaction and teaming in various real-world applications. Language-enabled robots must be able to comprehend referring expressions to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Peng Gao , Ahmed Jaafar , Brian Reily , Christopher Reardon , Hao Zhang

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) aims to identify hidden objects by incorporating reference information such as images and text descriptions. Previous research has transformed reference images with salient objects into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Wen , Shuyong Gao , Shuping Zhang , Miao Huang , Lili Tao , Han Yang , Haozhe Xing , Lihe Zhang , Boxue Hou

Phrase grounding models localize an object in the image given a referring expression. The annotated language queries available during training are limited, which also limits the variations of language combinations that a model can see…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Haidong Zhu , Arka Sadhu , Zhaoheng Zheng , Ram Nevatia

Conventional visual object trackers localize targets using handcrafted spatial priors, often in the form of heatmaps. Such priors provide only surrogate supervision and are poorly aligned with tracking optimization and evaluation metrics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xin Chen , Chuanyu Sun , Jiao Xu , Houwen Peng , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Kede Ma

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) has become one of the most important tasks in visual reasoning, since it is an essential step for many vision-and-language tasks such as visual question answering. However, it has not been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Wei Suo , Mengyang Sun , Peng Wang , Qi Wu

We present Pix2Seq, a simple and generic framework for object detection. Unlike existing approaches that explicitly integrate prior knowledge about the task, we cast object detection as a language modeling task conditioned on the observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting Chen , Saurabh Saxena , Lala Li , David J. Fleet , Geoffrey Hinton

Images may have elements containing text and a bounding box associated with them, for example, text identified via optical character recognition on a computer screen image, or a natural image with labeled objects. We present an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Nevan Wichers , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Jindong Chen

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

Extracting small objects from remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various applications, including urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. While current research primarily focuses on small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chenhao Wang , Yingrui Ji , Yu Meng , Yunjian Zhang , Yao Zhu

Referring video object segmentation (R-VOS) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to segment the target object referred by a language expression in all video frames. In this work, we propose a simple and unified framework built upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jiannan Wu , Yi Jiang , Peize Sun , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

We study the understanding of embodied reference: One agent uses both language and gesture to refer to an object to another agent in a shared physical environment. Of note, this new visual task requires understanding multimodal cues with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yixin Chen , Qing Li , Deqian Kong , Yik Lun Kei , Song-Chun Zhu , Tao Gao , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Visual grounding localizes regions (boxes or segments) in the image corresponding to given referring expressions. In this work we address image segmentation from referring expressions, a problem that has so far only been addressed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Robin Strudel , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

In this paper, we address the problem of referring expression comprehension in videos, which is challenging due to complex expression and scene dynamics. Unlike previous methods which solve the problem in multiple stages (i.e., tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Sijie Song , Xudong Lin , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo , Shih-Fu Chang

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We propose a novel approach for class-agnostic object proposal generation, which is efficient and especially well-suited to detect small objects. Efficiency is achieved by scale-specific objectness attention maps which focus the processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Christian Wilms , Simone Frintrop

Retrieving user-specified objects from complex scenes remains a challenging task, especially when queries are ambiguous or involve multiple similar objects. Existing open-vocabulary detectors operate in a one-shot manner, lacking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Yue Lu

Recognising objects according to a pre-defined fixed set of class labels has been well studied in the Computer Vision. There are a great many practical applications where the subjects that may be of interest are not known beforehand, or so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Bohan Zhuang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid , Anton van den Hengel

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Referring expression grounding is a core problem in visual grounding and is widely used as a diagnostic of spatial grounding and reasoning in vision and language models, yet most prior work focuses on natural images. In contrast, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tianhao Niu , Ziyu Han , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che