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Interpreting object-referential language and grounding objects in 3D with spatial relations and attributes is essential for robots operating alongside humans. However, this task is often challenging due to the diversity of scenes, large…

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Efficient target localization and autonomous navigation in complex environments are fundamental to real-world embodied applications. While recent advances in multimodal foundation models have enabled zero-shot object goal navigation,…

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Multi-view 3D visual grounding is critical for autonomous driving vehicles to interpret natural languages and localize target objects in complex environments. However, existing datasets and methods suffer from coarse-grained language…

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3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) focuses on locating objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions, serving as a fundamental task for embodied AI and robotics. Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

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The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Grounding natural language instructions to visual observations is fundamental for embodied agents operating in open-world environments. Recent advances in visual-language mapping have enabled generalizable semantic representations by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Danyang Li , Zenghui Yang , Guangpeng Qi , Songtao Pang , Guangyong Shang , Qiang Ma , Zheng Yang

We introduce a novel task of 3D visual grounding in monocular RGB images using language descriptions with both appearance and geometry information. Specifically, we build a large-scale dataset, Mono3DRefer, which contains 3D object targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Zhan , Yuan Yuan , Zhitong Xiong

Learning to ground natural language queries to target objects or regions in 3D point clouds is quite essential for 3D scene understanding. Nevertheless, existing 3D visual grounding approaches require a substantial number of bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoxu Xu , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Wenhui Wu , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

Object navigation is a core capability of embodied intelligence, enabling an agent to locate target objects in unknown environments. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have facilitated zero-shot object navigation (ZSON).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Hao Chen , Xianlong Lu , Linlin Ou , Xinyi Yu

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

Text-guided 3D visual grounding (T-3DVG), which aims to locate a specific object that semantically corresponds to a language query from a complicated 3D scene, has drawn increasing attention in the 3D research community over the past few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Daizong Liu , Yang Liu , Wencan Huang , Wei Hu

Graphical user interface (GUI) grounding is a fundamental task for building GUI agents. However, general vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with this task due to a lack of specific optimization. We identify a key gap in this paper:…

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Scene understanding and reasoning has been a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision, requiring models to identify objects, their properties, and spatial or comparative relationships among the objects. Existing approaches enable this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vivek Madhavaram , Vartika Sengar , Arkadipta De , Charu Sharma

Visual agent models for automating human activities on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have emerged as a promising research direction, driven by advances in large Vision Language Models (VLMs). A critical challenge in GUI automation is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Joonhyung Park , Peng Tang , Sagnik Das , Srikar Appalaraju , Kunwar Yashraj Singh , R. Manmatha , Shabnam Ghadar

This review provides a systematic analysis of comprehensive survey of 3D object detection with vision-language models(VLMs) , a rapidly advancing area at the intersection of 3D vision and multimodal AI. By examining over 100 research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I Roumeliotis , Rahul Harsha Cheppally , Marco Flores Calero , Manoj Karkee

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Visual grounding, the task of localizing objects described by natural-language expressions, is a foundational capability for agricultural AI systems, enabling applications such as selective weeding, disease monitoring, and targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Haocheng Li , Juepeng Zheng , Zenghao Yang , Kaiqi Du , Guilong Xiao , Gengmeng Pu , Haohuan Fu , Jianxi Huang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have been proven effective for detecting multi-modal misinformation on social platforms, especially in zero-shot settings with unavailable or delayed annotations. However, a single VLM's capacity falls short in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Wei Jiang , Tong Chen , Wei Yuan , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Modern 3D object detection datasets are constrained by narrow class taxonomies and costly manual annotations, limiting their ability to scale to open-world settings. In contrast, 2D vision-language models trained on web-scale image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Atharv Goel , Mehar Khurana

Enabling intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with 3D environments through natural language is crucial for advancing robotics and human-computer interaction. A fundamental task in this field is ego-centric 3D visual grounding,…

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