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Towards Visual Grounding: A Survey

arXiv — cs.CV•Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 5:00:00 AM
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The survey 'Towards Visual Grounding' highlights the evolution and significance of visual grounding, which connects specific areas in images to text expressions. This task is essential for developing machines that can understand visual and linguistic information similarly to humans. Since 2021, the field has seen notable advancements, including new concepts such as grounded pre-training and giga-pixel grounding, which present both opportunities and challenges. The survey meticulously tracks these developments, providing a comprehensive overview of related datasets and applications while proposing future research directions. By standardizing various settings in visual grounding, the survey aims to facilitate fair comparisons in future studies, ultimately contributing to the broader goal of improving multimodal comprehension capabilities in AI.
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