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This paper presents a framework for jointly grounding objects that follow certain semantic relationship constraints given in a scene graph. A typical natural scene contains several objects, often exhibiting visual relationships of varied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Aditay Tripathi , Anand Mishra , Anirban Chakraborty

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to utilize given natural language queries to locate specific target objects within images. While current transformer-based approaches demonstrate strong localization performance in standard scene (i.e, scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiangnan Xie , Xiaolong Zheng , Liang Zheng

Aligning vision and language concepts at a finer level remains an essential topic of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly for tasks such as referring and grounding. Existing methods, such as proxy encoding and geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Tianren Ma , Lingxi Xie , Yunjie Tian , Boyu Yang , Qixiang Ye

Visually-grounded language models (VLMs) are highly effective in linking visual and textual information, yet they often struggle with basic classification and localization tasks. While classification mechanisms have been studied more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Timothy Schaumlöffel , Martina G. Vilas , Gemma Roig

Recent advancements in visual localization and mapping have demonstrated considerable success in integrating point and line features. However, expanding the localization framework to include additional mapping components frequently results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Bach-Thuan Bui , Huy-Hoang Bui , Dinh-Tuan Tran , Joo-Ho Lee

Large audio language models are increasingly used for complex audio understanding tasks, but they struggle with temporal tasks that require precise temporal grounding, such as word alignment and speaker diarization. The standard approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Joesph An , Phillip Keung , Jiaqi Wang , Orevaoghene Ahia , Noah A. Smith

We propose LangHOPS, the first Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) based framework for open-vocabulary object-part instance segmentation. Given an image, LangHOPS can jointly detect and segment hierarchical object and part instances from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yang Miao , Jan-Nico Zaech , Xi Wang , Fabien Despinoy , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Image geolocalization has traditionally been addressed through retrieval-based place recognition or geometry-based visual localization pipelines. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong zero-shot reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Siddhant Bharadwaj , Ashish Vashist , Fahimul Aleem , Shruti Vyas

How well do text-only large language models (LLMs) align with the visual world? We present a systematic evaluation of this question by incorporating frozen representations of various language models into a discriminative vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jona Ruthardt , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Serge Belongie , Yuki M. Asano

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary vision-language understanding capabilities, their abilities to solve instance-level visual-language problems beyond a single image warrant further exploration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yunqiu Xu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

Grounding-based vision and language models have been successfully applied to low-level vision tasks, aiming to precisely locate objects referred in captions. The effectiveness of grounding representation learning heavily relies on the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jingru Yi , Burak Uzkent , Oana Ignat , Zili Li , Amanmeet Garg , Xiang Yu , Linda Liu

In this work, we introduce the Qwen-VL series, a set of large-scale vision-language models (LVLMs) designed to perceive and understand both texts and images. Starting from the Qwen-LM as a foundation, we endow it with visual capacity by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jinze Bai , Shuai Bai , Shusheng Yang , Shijie Wang , Sinan Tan , Peng Wang , Junyang Lin , Chang Zhou , Jingren Zhou

Keypoint-based matching is a fundamental component of modern 3D vision systems, such as Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and SLAM. Most existing learning-based methods are trained on image pairs, a paradigm that fails to explicitly optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yepeng Liu , Hao Li , Liwen Yang , Fangzhen Li , Xudi Ge , Yuliang Gu , kuang Gao , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Yongchao Xu

Localized Narratives is a dataset with detailed natural language descriptions of images paired with mouse traces that provide a sparse, fine-grained visual grounding for phrases. We propose TReCS, a sequential model that exploits this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jing Yu Koh , Jason Baldridge , Honglak Lee , Yinfei Yang

Image description datasets play a crucial role in the advancement of various applications such as image understanding, text-to-image generation, and text-image retrieval. Currently, image description datasets primarily originate from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Renjie Pi , Jianshu Zhang , Jipeng Zhang , Rui Pan , Zhekai Chen , Tong Zhang

Vision-Language Pre-Training (VLP) has shown promising capabilities to align image and text pairs, facilitating a broad variety of cross-modal learning tasks. However, we observe that VLP models often lack the visual grounding/localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Alex Jinpeng Wang , Pan Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Shuicheng Yan

Despite significant progress in 3D point cloud segmentation, existing methods primarily address specific tasks and depend on explicit instructions to identify targets, lacking the capability to infer and understand implicit user intentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang , Bihan Wen

When captioning an image, people describe objects in diverse ways, such as by using different terms and/or including details that are perceptually noteworthy to them. Descriptions can be especially unique across languages and cultures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kyle Buettner , Jacob T. Emmerson , Adriana Kovashka

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), they may over-rely on visual language priors existing in their training data rather than true visual reasoning. To investigate this, we introduce ViLP, a benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tiange Luo , Ang Cao , Gunhee Lee , Justin Johnson , Honglak Lee
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