Cited by 28Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval TechniquesVisual Attention and Saliency Detection

Multi-Modal Dynamic Graph Transformer for Visual Grounding

Chen, Sijia, Li, Baochun·2022·2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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Visual grounding (VG) aims to align the correct regions of an image with a natural language query about that image. We found that existing VG methods are trapped by the single-stage grounding process that performs a sole evaluate-and-rank for meticulously prepared regions. Their performance depends on the density and quality of the candidate regions, and is capped by the inability to optimize the located regions continuously. To address these issues, we propose to remodel VG into a progressively optimized visual semantic alignment process. Our proposed multi-modal dynamic graph transformer (M-DGT) achieves this by building upon the dynamic graph structure with regions as nodes and their semantic relations as edges. Starting from a few randomly initialized regions, M-DGT is able to make sustainable adjustments (i.e., 2D spatial transformation and deletion) to the nodes and edges of the graph based on multi-modal information and the graph feature, thereby efficiently shrinking the graph to approach the ground truth regions. Experiments show that with an average of 48 boxes as initialization, the performance of M-DGT on the Flickr30k Entities and RefCOCO datasets outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods by a substantial margin, in terms of both accuracy and Intersect over Union (IOU) scores. Furthermore, introducing M-DGT to optimize the predicted regions of existing methods can further significantly improve their performance. The source codes are available at https://github.com/iQua/M-DGT.

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Authors
Chen, S., & Li, B.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Venue
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2022-06
Pages
15513-15522
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4312523916
Cited by
28
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7
FWCI
2.36
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
visual grounding, multimodal fusion, graph optimization, spatial transformation, RefCOCO

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