English
Related papers

Related papers: POINTS-GUI-G: GUI-Grounding Journey

200 papers

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

In this paper, we claim that 3D visual grounding is the cornerstone of spatial reasoning and introduce the Grounded-Spatial Reasoner (GS-Reasoner) to explore the effective spatial representations that bridge the gap between them. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yiming Chen , Zekun Qi , Wenyao Zhang , Xin Jin , Li Zhang , Peidong Liu

Building reliable computer-use agents requires grounding: accurately connecting natural language instructions to the correct on-screen elements. While large datasets exist for web and mobile interactions, high-quality resources for desktop…

Humans are able to identify a referred visual object in a complex scene via a few rounds of natural language communications. Success communication requires both parties to engage and learn to adapt for each other. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yan Zhu , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas

Pixel grounding, encompassing tasks such as Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), has garnered considerable attention due to its immense potential for bridging the gap between vision and language modalities. However, advancements in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rui Hu , Lianghui Zhu , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

GUI agents drive applications through their visual interfaces instead of programmatic APIs, interacting with arbitrary software via taps, swipes, and keystrokes, reaching a long tail of applications that CLI-based agents cannot. Yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fei Tang , Zhiqiong Lu , Boxuan Zhang , Weiming Lu , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Yongliang Shen

Existing GUI agent models relying on coordinate-based one-step visual grounding struggle with generalizing to varying input resolutions and aspect ratios. Alternatives introduce coordinate-free strategies yet suffer from learning under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaoce Wang , Guibin Zhang , Junzhe Li , Jinzhe Tu , Chun Li , Ming Li

Although great progress has been made in 3D visual grounding, current models still rely on explicit textual descriptions for grounding and lack the ability to reason human intentions from implicit instructions. We propose a new task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenming Zhu , Tai Wang , Wenwei Zhang , Kai Chen , Xihui Liu

Recent advances in video world modeling have enabled large-scale generative models to simulate embodied environments with high visual fidelity, providing strong priors for prediction, planning, and control. Yet, despite their realism, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haoyang He , Jay Patrikar , Dong-Ki Kim , Max Smith , Daniel McGann , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Shayegan Omidshafiei , Sebastian Scherer

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have become powerful general-purpose assistants, yet their predictions often lack reliability and interpretability due to insufficient grounding in visual evidence. The emerging thinking-with-images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Meng Cao , Haoze Zhao , Can Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Ian Reid , Xiaodan Liang

The rise of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), renowned for their advanced instruction-following and reasoning capabilities, has significantly propelled the field of visual reasoning. However, due to limitations in their image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Jiaxing Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Dehu Li , Xiang An , Weimo Deng , Ziyong Feng , Yongle Zhao , Yin Xie

Autonomous agents for Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are revolutionizing human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based instructions imposes limitations on accessibility and convenience, particularly in hands-free scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wenkang Han , Zhixiong Zeng , Jing Huang , Shu Jiang , Liming Zheng , Longrong Yang , Haibo Qiu , Chang Yao , Jingyuan Chen , Lin Ma

This paper presents a grounded language-image pre-training (GLIP) model for learning object-level, language-aware, and semantic-rich visual representations. GLIP unifies object detection and phrase grounding for pre-training. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Liunian Harold Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Haotian Zhang , Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Yiwu Zhong , Lijuan Wang , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Kai-Wei Chang , Jianfeng Gao

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to improve the robustness of GUI agents in stochastic environments, yet training is highly sensitive to the quality of the reward function. Existing reward approaches struggle to achieve both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zehao Li , Zhenyu Wu , Yibo Zhao , Bowen Yang , Jingjing Xie , Zhaoyang Liu , Zhoumianze Liu , Kaiming Jin , Jianze Liang , Zonglin Li , Feng Wu , Bowen Zhou , Zun Wang , Zichen Ding

The rapid advancement of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has propelled the development of pure-vision-based GUI Agents, capable of perceiving and operating Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) to autonomously fulfill user instructions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chenyu Yang , Shiqian Su , Shi Liu , Xuan Dong , Yue Yu , Weijie Su , Xuehui Wang , Zhaoyang Liu , Jinguo Zhu , Hao Li , Wenhai Wang , Yu Qiao , Xizhou Zhu , Jifeng Dai

Visual grounding is a ubiquitous building block in many vision-language tasks and yet remains challenging due to large variations in visual and linguistic features of grounding entities, strong context effect and the resulting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Xiaodan Zhu , Xuming He

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, powered by Large Foundation Models, have emerged as a transformative approach to automating human-computer interaction. These agents autonomously interact with digital systems or software applications…

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

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu