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Recent breakthroughs in reasoning models have markedly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models, particularly via training on tasks with verifiable rewards. Yet, a significant gap persists in their adaptation to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiaao Yu , Shenwei Li , Mingjie Han , Yifei Yin , Wenzheng Song , Chenghao Jia , Man Lan

How to select relevant key objects and reason about the complex relationships cross vision and linguistic domain are two key issues in many multi-modality applications such as visual question answering (VQA). In this work, we incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zongzhao Li , Xiangyu Zhu , Xi Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei

Humans recognize the visual world at multiple levels: we effortlessly categorize scenes and detect objects inside, while also identifying the textures and surfaces of the objects along with their different compositional parts. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Tete Xiao , Yingcheng Liu , Bolei Zhou , Yuning Jiang , Jian Sun

We introduce Visual Caption Restoration (VCR), a novel vision-language task that challenges models to accurately restore partially obscured texts using pixel-level hints within images. This task stems from the observation that text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Lu Li , Ge Zhang , Perouz Taslakian , Sai Rajeswar , Jie Fu , Bang Liu , Yoshua Bengio

A critical aspect of human visual perception is the ability to parse visual scenes into individual objects and further into object parts, forming part-whole hierarchies. Such composite structures could induce a rich set of semantic concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yining Hong , Li Yi , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba , Chuang Gan

In this paper, we will study the following pattern recognition problem: Every pattern is a 3-dimensional graph, its surface can be split up into some regions, every region is composed of the pixels with the approximately same colour value…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-07 YongHong Chen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most challenging tasks in artificial intelligence due to its multi-modal nature. However, most existing VQA methods are incapable of handling Knowledge-based Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chengxiang Yin , Zhengping Che , Kun Wu , Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang

Causal thinking enables humans to understand not just what is seen, but why it happens. To replicate this capability in modern AI systems, we introduce the task of visual causal discovery. It requires models to infer cause-and-effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yize Zhang , Meiqi Chen , Sirui Chen , Bo Peng , Yanxi Zhang , Tianyu Li , Chaochao Lu

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have garnered increasing interest in autonomous driving areas, due to their advanced capabilities in complex reasoning tasks essential for highly autonomous vehicle behavior. Despite their potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ming Nie , Renyuan Peng , Chunwei Wang , Xinyue Cai , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Visual reasoning refers to the task of solving questions about visual information. Current visual reasoning methods typically employ pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) strategies or deep neural network approaches. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chao Wang , Chunbai Zhang , Yongxiao Tian , Yang Zhou , Yan Peng

Computer vision systems are designed to work well within the context of everyday photography. However, artists often render the world around them in ways that do not resemble photographs. Artwork produced by people is not constrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Michael J. Wilber , Chen Fang , Hailin Jin , Aaron Hertzmann , John Collomosse , Serge Belongie

Visual question answering requires high-order reasoning about an image, which is a fundamental capability needed by machine systems to follow complex directives. Recently, modular networks have been shown to be an effective framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 David Mascharka , Philip Tran , Ryan Soklaski , Arjun Majumdar

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance on tasks such as visual grounding and visual question answering. However, the reasoning processes of these models remain largely opaque;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Haobo Yuan , Yueyi Sun , Yanwei Li , Tao Zhang , Xueqing Deng , Henghui Ding , Lu Qi , Anran Wang , Xiangtai Li , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Algorithms based on deep network models are being used for many pattern recognition and decision-making tasks in robotics and AI. Training these models requires a large labeled dataset and considerable computational resources, which are not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Mohan Sridharan , Tiago Mota

Visual representation learning is ubiquitous in various real-world applications, including visual comprehension, video understanding, multi-modal analysis, human-computer interaction, and urban computing. Due to the emergence of huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yang Liu , Yushen Wei , Hong Yan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Reasoning is a critical ability towards complete visual understanding. To develop machine with cognition-level visual understanding and reasoning abilities, the visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) task has been introduced. In VCR, given a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Dandan Song , Siyi Ma , Zhanchen Sun , Sicheng Yang , Lejian Liao

Counting serves as a simple but powerful test of a Large Vision-Language Model's (LVLM's) reasoning; it forces the model to identify each individual object and then add them all up. In this study, we investigate how LVLMs implement counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Liwei Che , Zhiyu Xue , Yihao Quan , Benlin Liu , Zeru Shi , Michelle Hurst , Jacob Feldman , Ruixiang Tang , Ranjay Krishna , Vladimir Pavlovic

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular type of computer model that have proven their worth in many computer vision tasks. Moreover, they form an interesting study object for the field of psychology, with shown correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Laurent Mertens , Elahe' Yargholi , Laura Van Hove , Hans Op de Beeck , Jan Van den Stock , Joost Vennekens

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have achieved human or even superhuman performance in many well-defined applications, they still struggle to show signs of broad and flexible intelligence. The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Giacomo Camposampiero , Loic Houmard , Benjamin Estermann , Joël Mathys , Roger Wattenhofer

Visual Spatial Reasoning (VSR) is a core human cognitive ability and a critical requirement for advancing embodied intelligence and autonomous systems. Despite recent progress in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), achieving human-level VSR…