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Language is an effective medium for bi-directional communication in human-robot teams. To infer the meaning of many instructions, robots need to construct a model of their surroundings that describe the spatial, semantic, and metric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ethan Fahnestock , Siddharth Patki , Thomas M. Howard

Artificial visual attention systems aim to support technical systems in visual tasks by applying the concepts of selective attention observed in humans and other animals. Such systems are typically evaluated against ground truth obtained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Jan Tünnermann , Markus Hennig , Michael Silbernagel , Bärbel Mertsching

In this paper, we offer a preliminary investigation into the task of in-image machine translation: transforming an image containing text in one language into an image containing the same text in another language. We propose an end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Elman Mansimov , Mitchell Stern , Mia Chen , Orhan Firat , Jakob Uszkoreit , Puneet Jain

This paper provides a comprehensive review of mechanical equipment fault diagnosis methods, focusing on the advancements brought by Transformer-based models. It details the structure, working principles, and benefits of Transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu

It is a challenging task for visually impaired people to perceive their surrounding environment due to the complexity of the natural scenes. Their personal and social activities are thus highly limited. This paper introduces a Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Zezhou Chen , Zhaoxiang Liu , Kai Wang , Kohou Wang , Shiguo Lian

Speech translation has traditionally been approached through cascaded models consisting of a speech recognizer trained on a corpus of transcribed speech, and a machine translation system trained on parallel texts. Several recent works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Matthias Sperber , Graham Neubig , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Access to non-verbal cues in social interactions is vital for people with visual impairment. It has been shown that non-verbal cues such as eye contact, number of people, their names and positions are helpful for individuals who are blind.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-30 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Angela Constantinescu , Melanie Zuzej , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Humans do not acquire perceptual abilities in the way we train machines. While machine learning algorithms typically operate on large collections of randomly-chosen, explicitly-labeled examples, human acquisition relies more heavily on…

One of the ways blind people understand their surroundings is by clicking images and relying on descriptions generated by image captioning systems. Current work on captioning images for the visually impaired do not use the textual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hiba Ahsan , Nikita Bhalla , Daivat Bhatt , Kaivankumar Shah

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Multimodal automatic speech recognition systems integrate information from images to improve speech recognition quality, by grounding the speech in the visual context. While visual signals have been shown to be useful for recovering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze , Desmond Elliott

Multi-modal affect recognition models leverage complementary information in different modalities to outperform their uni-modal counterparts. However, due to the unavailability of modality-specific sensors or data, multi-modal models may not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Humans use multiple senses to comprehend the environment. Vision and language are two of the most vital senses since they allow us to easily communicate our thoughts and perceive the world around us. There has been a lot of interest in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Yi Bin , Junbin Xiao , Leigang Qu , Yicong Li , Jay Zhangjie Wu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Luu Anh Tuan

Multimodal sentiment analysis is an important research area that predicts speaker's sentiment tendency through features extracted from textual, visual and acoustic modalities. The central challenge is the fusion method of the multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Zilong Wang , Zhaohong Wan , Xiaojun Wan

The capability to jointly process multi-modal information is becoming an essential task. However, the limited number of paired multi-modal data and the large computational requirements in multi-modal learning hinder the development. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Minsu Kim , Jee-weon Jung , Hyeongseop Rha , Soumi Maiti , Siddhant Arora , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro

The challenge of low-latency speech translation has recently draw significant interest in the research community as shown by several publications and shared tasks. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate these different approaches in…

Active speaker detection and speech enhancement have become two increasingly attractive topics in audio-visual scenario understanding. According to their respective characteristics, the scheme of independently designed architecture has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Junwen Xiong , Yu Zhou , Peng Zhang , Lei Xie , Wei Huang , Yufei Zha

Consider an assistive system that guides visually impaired users through speech and haptic feedback to their destination. Existing robotic and ubiquitous navigation technologies (e.g., portable, ground, or wearable systems) often operate in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Eshed Ohn-Bar , Kris Kitani , Chieko Asakawa

This work presents a comparative evaluation of machine translation systems applied to images containing textual information, a task that lies at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. The study compares three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Blai Puchol , Sergio Gómez González , Miguel Domingo , Francisco Casacuberta

Decoding visual semantic representations from human brain activity is a significant challenge. While recent zero-shot decoding approaches have improved performance by leveraging aligned image-text datasets, they overlook a fundamental…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Zhengdi Zhang , Hao Zhang , Wenjun Xia