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Human gaze offers rich supervisory signals for understanding visual attention in complex visual environments. In this paper, we propose Eyes on Target, a novel depth-aware and gaze-guided object detection framework designed for egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vishakha Lall , Yisi Liu

Gaze following estimates gaze targets of in-scene person by understanding human behavior and scene information. Existing methods usually analyze scene images for gaze following. However, compared with visual images, audio also provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yuqi Hou , Zhongqun Zhang , Nora Horanyi , Jaewon Moon , Yihua Cheng , Hyung Jin Chang

While Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across multi-modal tasks, their choice of vision encoders presents a fundamental weakness: their low-level features lack the robust structural and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Brandon Huang , Hang Hua , Zhuoran Yu , Trevor Darrell , Rogerio Feris , Roei Herzig

Recent advancements in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have leveraged pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to improve the generalization capabilities. VLMs, typically pre-trained on vision-language understanding tasks, provide rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jianke Zhang , Yanjiang Guo , Yucheng Hu , Xiaoyu Chen , Xiang Zhu , Jianyu Chen

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal reasoning but still face challenges in spatial reasoning for 3D scenes and complex object configurations. To address this, we introduce SpatialViLT, an enhanced VLM that integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chashi Mahiul Islam , Oteo Mamo , Samuel Jacob Chacko , Xiuwen Liu , Weikuan Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for enhancing visual comprehension in autonomous driving systems by integrating visual language models (VLMs) with additional visual perception module specialised in object detection. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Linfeng He , Yiming Sun , Sihao Wu , Jiaxu Liu , Xiaowei Huang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robot manipulation by unifying perception and action. However, existing VLA systems primarily rely on textual instructions and struggle to resolve spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wenxuan Guo , Ziyuan Li , Meng Zhang , Yichen Liu , Yimeng Dong , Chuxi Xu , Yunfei Wei , Ze Chen , Erjin Zhou , Jianjiang Feng

Despite the remarkable success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), their performance on a range of complex visual tasks is often hindered by a "visual processing bottleneck": a propensity to lose grounding in visual evidence and exhibit a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xinlei Yu , Chengming Xu , Guibin Zhang , Zhangquan Chen , Yudong Zhang , Yongbo He , Peng-Tao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Shuicheng Yan

Different from Visual Question Answering task that requires to answer only one question about an image, Visual Dialogue involves multiple questions which cover a broad range of visual content that could be related to any objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xiaoze Jiang , Jing Yu , Zengchang Qin , Yingying Zhuang , Xingxing Zhang , Yue Hu , Qi Wu

This paper addresses the gaze target detection problem in single images captured from the third-person perspective. We present a multimodal deep architecture to infer where a person in a scene is looking. This spatial model is trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Francesco Tonini , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning visual representations from textual descriptions of images without annotations. Yet, effective VLP demands large-scale image-text pairs, a resource that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yinda Chen , Che Liu , Wei Huang , Sibo Cheng , Rossella Arcucci , Zhiwei Xiong

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have led to improved performance on tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. Consequently, these models are now well-positioned to reason about the physical world,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jensen Gao , Bidipta Sarkar , Fei Xia , Ted Xiao , Jiajun Wu , Brian Ichter , Anirudha Majumdar , Dorsa Sadigh

Vision language models (VLM) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various downstream tasks. However, understanding fine-grained visual-linguistic concepts, such as attributes and inter-object relationships, remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wujian Peng , Sicheng Xie , Zuyao You , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu

This paper addresses the challenging problem of estimating the general visual attention of people in images. Our proposed method is designed to work across multiple naturalistic social scenarios and provides a full picture of the subject's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Eunji Chong , Nataniel Ruiz , Yongxin Wang , Yun Zhang , Agata Rozga , James Rehg

Vision and Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate to a target location by following natural language instructions. Most of existing works represent a navigation candidate by the feature of the corresponding single view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Dong An , Yuankai Qi , Yan Huang , Qi Wu , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Vision-language models (VLMs) have become a promising approach to enhancing perception and decision-making in autonomous driving. The gap remains in applying VLMs to understand complex scenarios interacting with pedestrians and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Haoxiang Gao , Li Zhang , Yu Zhao , Zhou Yang , Jinghan Cao

Object-aware reasoning in vision-language tasks poses significant challenges for current models, particularly in handling unseen objects, reducing hallucinations, and capturing fine-grained relationships in complex visual scenes. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Antonio Carlos Rivera , Anthony Moore , Steven Robinson

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong visual reasoning capabilities, yet they still struggle with 3D understanding. In particular, VLMs often fail to infer a text-consistent goal 6D pose of a target object in a 3D scene. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sangwon Baik , Gunhee Kim , Mingi Choi , Hanbyul Joo

When answering questions about images, humans naturally point, label, and draw to explain their reasoning. In contrast, modern vision-language models (VLMs) such as Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5 only respond with text, which can be difficult for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Brandon Collins , Logan Bolton , Hung Huy Nguyen , Mohammad Reza Taesiri , Trung Bui , Anh Totti Nguyen

Gaze following and social gaze prediction are fundamental tasks providing insights into human communication behaviors, intent, and social interactions. Most previous approaches addressed these tasks separately, either by designing highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Anshul Gupta , Samy Tafasca , Arya Farkhondeh , Pierre Vuillecard , Jean-Marc Odobez