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This paper proposes Panoptic Narrative Grounding, a spatially fine and general formulation of the natural language visual grounding problem. We establish an experimental framework for the study of this new task, including new ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 C. González , N. Ayobi , I. Hernández , J. Hernández , J. Pont-Tuset , P. Arbeláez

Accurately describing and detecting 2D and 3D keypoints is crucial to establishing correspondences across images and point clouds. Despite a plethora of learning-based 2D or 3D local feature descriptors and detectors having been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Bing Wang , Changhao Chen , Zhaopeng Cui , Jie Qin , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Zhengdi Yu , Peijun Zhao , Zhen Dong , Fan Zhu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Pointing-based methods decompose complex tasks as sequential grounding and reasoning steps. Given a query, the model first grounds the relevant objects by generating their coordinates, and then predicts an answer conditioned on these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Simone Alghisi , Massimo Rizzoli , Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Giuseppe Riccardi

Pixel-level 2D object semantic understanding is an important topic in computer vision and could help machine deeply understand objects (e.g. functionality and affordance) in our daily life. However, most previous methods directly train on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yang You , Chengkun Li , Yujing Lou , Zhoujun Cheng , Liangwei Li , Lizhuang Ma , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Text-to-point-cloud (T2P) localization aims to infer precise spatial positions within 3D point cloud maps from natural language descriptions, reflecting how humans perceive and communicate spatial layouts through language. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shuhao Kang , Youqi Liao , Peijie Wang , Wenlong Liao , Qilin Zhang , Benjamin Busam , Xieyuanli Chen , Yun Liu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in earth observation (EO), yet they struggle with tasks that require grounding complex spatial reasoning in precise pixel-level visual representations. To address this problem, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yan Shu , Bin Ren , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Begüm Demir , Nicu Sebe , Paolo Rota

We introduce a language-grounded visual prompting method to adapt the visual encoder of vision-language models for downstream tasks. By capitalizing on language integration, we devise a parameter-efficient strategy to adjust the input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nilakshan Kunananthaseelan , Jing Zhang , Mehrtash Harandi

Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based intelligence. While recent advances in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyao Li , Runlong Yu , Qikai Hu , Bowei Li , Min Deng , Yang Zhou , Xiaowei Jia

Existing tampering detection benchmarks largely rely on object masks, which severely misalign with the true edit signal: many pixels inside a mask are untouched or only trivially modified, while subtle yet consequential edits outside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xinyi Shang , Yi Tang , Jiacheng Cui , Ahmed Elhagry , Salwa K. Al Khatib , Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat , Jiacheng Liu , Xiaohan Zhao , Jing-Hao Xue , Hao Li , Salman Khan , Zhiqiang Shen

Vision-language models have made significant strides recently, demonstrating superior performance across a range of tasks, e.g. optical character recognition and complex diagram analysis. Building on this trend, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yuan Liu , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Xinyu Gao , Kavio Yu , Yang Yu , Jie Zhou

We introduce a novel framework for image captioning that can produce natural language explicitly grounded in entities that object detectors find in the image. Our approach reconciles classical slot filling approaches (that are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Describing images with text is a fundamental problem in vision-language research. Current studies in this domain mostly focus on single image captioning. However, in various real applications (e.g., image editing, difference interpretation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Hao Tan , Franck Dernoncourt , Zhe Lin , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal

Visual grounding, localizing objects from natural language descriptions, represents a critical bridge between language and vision understanding. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve impressive scores on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rang Li , Lei Li , Shuhuai Ren , Hao Tian , Shuhao Gu , Shicheng Li , Zihao Yue , Yudong Wang , Wenhan Ma , Zhe Yang , Jingyuan Ma , Zhifang Sui , Fuli Luo

Vision-language foundation models have shown remarkable performance in various zero-shot settings such as image retrieval, classification, or captioning. But so far, those models seem to fall behind when it comes to zero-shot localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Walid Bousselham , Felix Petersen , Vittorio Ferrari , Hilde Kuehne

We introduce a unified framework to jointly model images, text, and human attention traces. Our work is built on top of the recent Localized Narratives annotation framework [30], where each word of a given caption is paired with a mouse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zihang Meng , Licheng Yu , Ning Zhang , Tamara Berg , Babak Damavandi , Vikas Singh , Amy Bearman

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

Generating detailed and accurate descriptions for specific regions in images and videos remains a fundamental challenge for vision-language models. We introduce the Describe Anything Model (DAM), a model designed for detailed localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Long Lian , Yifan Ding , Yunhao Ge , Sifei Liu , Hanzi Mao , Boyi Li , Marco Pavone , Ming-Yu Liu , Trevor Darrell , Adam Yala , Yin Cui

Visual grounding is an essential tool that links user-provided text queries with query-specific regions within an image. Despite advancements in visual grounding models, their ability to comprehend complex queries remains limited. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoyu Zhao , Wenhang Ge , Ying-cong Chen

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLMs) leverages Large Language Models as a cognitive framework for diverse visual-language tasks. Recent efforts have been made to equip MLLMs with visual perceiving and grounding capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwen He , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Jun-Yan He , Jin-Peng Lan , Bin Luo , Xuansong Xie