RGBT-GroundBench: Visual Grounding Beyond RGB in Complex Real-World Scenarios
Visual grounding (VG) localizes target objects in an image from natural-language expressions. In real-world perception, RGB cues often degrade under low illumination and adverse weather, making visual grounding substantially more challenging. However, existing VG benchmarks are largely RGB-only and provide limited, structured coverage of such conditions, hindering systematic robustness evaluation and cross-spectral comparison. We present RGBT-GroundBench, the first large-scale benchmark for RGB-Thermal (TIR) visual grounding in complex environments. It contains over 40K images (21,535 RGB-TIR pairs) and 38,760 object instances with referring expressions, bounding boxes, and fine-grained annotations at three levels: scene types, environmental conditions (illumination and weather), and object properties (size and occlusion). As a benchmark suite, RGBT-GroundBench provides not only curated RGB-TIR grounding annotations but also a unified evaluation protocol supporting RGB-only, TIR-only, and RGB+TIR inputs. Under this protocol, we benchmark 11 representative VG models across diverse scenes and environmental conditions. Our results show that grounding accuracy is strongly correlated with scene complexity, LoRA-based models are more robust in complex scenes, and low-illumination conditions cause significant performance degradation that has been rarely explored. Guided by these observations, we introduce RGBT-VGNet, a simple and reproducible reference baseline under the unified protocol, featuring Asymmetric Modality Adaptation, Language-Aware Visual Synergy, and Tri-Prior Fusion for reliability-aware RGB-TIR integration. Resources, annotations, code, checkpoints, and evaluation scripts have been publicly released.
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