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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

Mastering commonsense understanding and reasoning is a pivotal skill essential for conducting engaging conversations. While there have been several attempts to create datasets that facilitate commonsense inferences in dialogue contexts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sarah E. Finch , Jinho D. Choi

Humans can approach complex visual problems by mentally simulating intermediate visual steps, rather than reasoning through language alone. Inspired by this, several works on Vision-Language Models have recently explored chain-of-thought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 André G. Viveiros , Nuno Gonçalves , André F. T. Martins , Matthias Lindemann

Visual storytelling is a task of generating relevant and interesting stories for given image sequences. In this work we aim at increasing the diversity of the generated stories while preserving the informative content from the images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hong Chen , Yifei Huang , Hiroya Takamura , Hideki Nakayama

We introduce the Continuum Physical Dataset (ContPhy), a novel benchmark for assessing machine physical commonsense. ContPhy complements existing physical reasoning benchmarks by encompassing the inference of diverse physical properties,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhicheng Zheng , Xin Yan , Zhenfang Chen , Jingzhou Wang , Qin Zhi Eddie Lim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Compositional visual reasoning has emerged as a key research frontier in multimodal AI, aiming to endow machines with the human-like ability to decompose visual scenes, ground intermediate concepts, and perform multi-step logical inference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fucai Ke , Joy Hsu , Zhixi Cai , Zixian Ma , Xin Zheng , Xindi Wu , Sukai Huang , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Ranjay Krishna , Jiajun Wu , Hamid Rezatofighi

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

In real-world environments, AI systems often face unfamiliar scenarios without labeled data, creating a major challenge for conventional scene understanding models. The inability to generalize across unseen contexts limits the deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

Which common human actions and interactions are recognizable in monocular still images? Which involve objects and/or other people? How many is a person performing at a time? We address these questions by exploring the actions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Matteo Ruggero Ronchi , Pietro Perona

Commonsense reasoning simulates the human ability to make presumptions about our physical world, and it is an essential cornerstone in building general AI systems. We propose a new commonsense reasoning dataset based on human's Interactive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Mo Yu , Yi Gu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Yufei Feng , Xiaodan Zhu , Michael Greenspan , Murray Campbell , Chuang Gan

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

Images are often more significant than only the pixels to human eyes, as we can infer, associate, and reason with contextual information from other sources to establish a more complete picture. For example, in Figure 1, we can find a way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xingyu Fu , Ben Zhou , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Carl Vondrick , Dan Roth

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

A deeper understanding of video activities extends beyond recognition of underlying concepts such as actions and objects: constructing deep semantic representations requires reasoning about the semantic relationships among these concepts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur , Fillipe DM de Souza , Sudeep Sarkar

Commonsense reasoning, aiming at endowing machines with a human-like ability to make situational presumptions, is extremely challenging to generalize. For someone who barely knows about "meditation," while is knowledgeable about "singing,"…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Weiqi Wang , Tianqing Fang , Baixuan Xu , Chun Yi Louis Bo , Yangqiu Song , Lei Chen

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) calls for explanatory reasoning behind question answering over visual scenes. To achieve this goal, a model is required to provide an acceptable rationale as the reason for the predicted answers. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Xiaolin Chen , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Images and text co-occur constantly on the web, but explicit links between images and sentences (or other intra-document textual units) are often not present. We present algorithms that discover image-sentence relationships without relying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jack Hessel , Lillian Lee , David Mimno

Humans possess the capacity to reason about the future based on a sparse collection of visual cues acquired over time. In order to emulate this ability, we introduce a novel task called Anticipation Captioning, which generates a caption for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Duc Minh Vo , Quoc-An Luong , Akihiro Sugimoto , Hideki Nakayama

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) remains a significant yet challenging research problem in the realm of visual reasoning. A VCR model generally aims at answering a textual question regarding an image, followed by the rationale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Fan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Recent advancements in zero-shot commonsense reasoning have empowered Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to acquire extensive commonsense knowledge without requiring task-specific fine-tuning. Despite this progress, these models frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , SangKeun Lee