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Color serves as a fundamental dimension of human visual perception and a primary means of communicating about objects and scenes. As vision-language models (VLMs) become increasingly prevalent, understanding whether they name colors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Pablo Hernández-Cámara , Muhammad Atif Butt , Valero Laparra , Jesus Malo , Javier Vazquez-Corral

To interpret the meanings of colors in visualizations of categorical information, people must determine how distinct colors correspond to different concepts. This process is easier when assignments between colors and concepts in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Ragini Rathore , Zachary Leggon , Laurent Lessard , Karen B. Schloss

Humans can progressively learn visual concepts from easy to hard questions. To mimic this efficient learning ability, we propose a competence-aware curriculum for visual concept learning in a question-answering manner. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Qing Li , Siyuan Huang , Yining Hong , Song-Chun Zhu

Semantic understanding of 3D objects is crucial in many applications such as object manipulation. However, it is hard to give a universal definition of point-level semantics that everyone would agree on. We observe that people have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yujing Lou , Yang You , Chengkun Li , Zhoujun Cheng , Liangwei Li , Lizhuang Ma , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Humans possess innate meta-learning capabilities, partly attributable to their exceptional color perception. In this paper, we pioneer an innovative viewpoint on few-shot learning by simulating human color perception mechanisms. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaofei Qi , Zhitai Liu , Jianbin Qiu

To interpret deep models' predictions, attention-based visual cues are widely used in addressing \textit{why} deep models make such predictions. Beyond that, the current research community becomes more interested in reasoning \textit{how}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wenxiao Xiao , Zhengming Ding , Hongfu Liu

This paper contributes to interpretable machine learning via visual knowledge discovery in parallel coordinates. The concepts of hypercubes and hyper-blocks are used as easily understandable by end-users in the visual form in parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Boris Kovalerchuk , Dustin Hayes

Since many real-world concepts are associated with colour, for example danger with red, linguistic information is often complimented with the use of appropriate colours in information visualization and product marketing. Yet, there is no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Saif Mohammad

Recent advances in computer vision have yielded models with strong performance on recognition benchmarks; however, significant gaps remain in comparison to human perception. One subtle ability is to judge whether an image looks like a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Itay Cohen , Ethan Fetaya , Amir Rosenfeld

Visual semantic information comprises two important parts: the meaning of each visual semantic unit and the coherent visual semantic relation conveyed by these visual semantic units. Essentially, the former one is a visual perception task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Daqi Liu , Miroslaw Bober , Josef Kittler

Humans explain inter-object relationships with semantic labels that demonstrate a high-level understanding required to perform complex Vision-Language tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, existing VQA models represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Moshiur Farazi , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) predicts an answer with corresponding rationale, given a question-image input. VCR is a recently introduced visual scene understanding task with a wide range of applications, including visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xuejiao Tang , Xin Huang , Wenbin Zhang , Travers B. Child , Qiong Hu , Zhen Liu , Ji Zhang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) often benefit from intermediate visual cues, either injected via external tools or generated as latent visual tokens during reasoning, but these mechanisms still overlook fine-grained visual evidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shuoshuo Zhang , Yizhen Zhang , Jingjing Fu , Lei Song , Jiang Bian , Yujiu Yang , Rui Wang

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

Image-text matching plays a central role in bridging vision and language. Most existing approaches only rely on the image-text instance pair to learn their representations, thereby exploiting their matching relationships and making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Haoran Wang , Ying Zhang , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , Lin Ma

Humans have an incredible ability to process and understand information from multiple sources such as images, video, text, and speech. Recent success of deep neural networks has enabled us to develop algorithms which give machines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Dheeraj Peri , Shagan Sah , Raymond Ptucha

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been successful in image recognition tasks, and recent works shed lights on how CNN separates different classes with the learned inter-class knowledge through visualization. In this work, we instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Donglai Wei , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torrabla , William Freeman

A thorough comprehension of image content demands a complex grasp of the interactions that may occur in the natural world. One of the key issues is to describe the visual relationships between objects. When dealing with real world data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 François Plesse , Alexandru Ginsca , Bertrand Delezoide , Françoise Prêteux

Multilingual (or cross-lingual) embeddings represent several languages in a unique vector space. Using a common embedding space enables for a shared semantic between words from different languages. In this paper, we propose to embed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Maxime Portaz , Hicham Randrianarivo , Adrien Nivaggioli , Estelle Maudet , Christophe Servan , Sylvain Peyronnet

Outside-knowledge visual question answering is a challenging task that requires both the acquisition and the use of open-ended real-world knowledge. Some existing solutions draw external knowledge into the cross-modality space which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Qingyi Si , Yuchen Mo , Zheng Lin , Huishan Ji , Weiping Wang