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The collaborative reasoning for understanding each image-question pair is very critical but under-explored for an interpretable Visual Question Answering (VQA) system. Although very recent works also tried the explicit compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Qingxing Cao , Xiaodan Liang , Bailing Li , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Large-scale visual place recognition (VPR) is inherently challenging because not all visual cues in the image are beneficial to the task. In order to highlight the task-relevant visual cues in the feature embedding, the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Guohao Peng , Yufeng Yue , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , Xiaoyu Tang , Danwei Wang

As a technically challenging topic, visual storytelling aims at generating an imaginary and coherent story with narrative multi-sentences from a group of relevant images. Existing methods often generate direct and rigid descriptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tengpeng Li , Hanli Wang , Bin He , Chang Wen Chen

Visual understanding goes well beyond object recognition. With one glance at an image, we can effortlessly imagine the world beyond the pixels: for instance, we can infer people's actions, goals, and mental states. While this task is easy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Rowan Zellers , Yonatan Bisk , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

Visual commonsense reasoning task aims at leading the research field into solving cognition-level reasoning with the ability of predicting correct answers and meanwhile providing convincing reasoning paths, resulting in three sub-tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Weijiang Yu , Jingwen Zhou , Weihao Yu , Xiaodan Liang , Nong Xiao

Current visual grounding models are either based on a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that performs auto-regressive decoding, which is slow and risks hallucinations, or on re-aligning an LLM with vision features to learn new special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Weitai Kang , Jason Kuen , Mengwei Ren , Zijun Wei , Yan Yan , Kangning Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state of the art method for image classification in the last ten years. Despite the fact that they achieve superhuman classification accuracy on many popular datasets, they often perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sebastian Stabinger , Peer David , Justus Piater , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

Conditional inference on joint textual and visual clues is a multi-modal reasoning task that textual clues provide prior permutation or external knowledge, which are complementary with visual content and pivotal to deducing the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yunxin Li , Baotian Hu , Xinyu Chen , Yuxin Ding , Lin Ma , Min Zhang

Convolutional neural networks have been shown to develop internal representations, which correspond closely to semantically meaningful objects and parts, although trained solely on class labels. Class Activation Mapping (CAM) is a recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Amir Rosenfeld , Shimon Ullman

Recent studies suggest that transformer-based vision-language models (VLMs) capture the multimodality of concept processing in the human brain. However, a systematic evaluation exploring different types of VLM architectures and the role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Anna Bavaresco , Marianne de Heer Kloots , Sandro Pezzelle , Raquel Fernández

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are successfully used for the important automotive visual perception tasks including object recognition, motion and depth estimation, visual SLAM, etc. However, these tasks are typically independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ganesh Sistu , Isabelle Leang , Sumanth Chennupati , Senthil Yogamani , Ciaran Hughes , Stefan Milz , Samir Rawashdeh

Pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in image retrieval from text. However, their performance drops drastically when confronted with linguistically complex texts that they struggle to comprehend.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Yunxin Li , Baotian Hu , Yuxin Ding , Lin Ma , Min Zhang

Recent progress in computer vision has produced a wide range of powerful specialized models for detection, segmentation, counting, and other visual tasks. However, these models are usually optimized for isolated task formulations, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yaowu Fan , Tao Han , Dazhao Du , Andy J. Ma , Jia Wan

Visual reasoning abilities play a crucial role in understanding complex multimodal data, advancing both domain-specific applications and artificial general intelligence (AGI). Existing methods enhance Vision-Language Models (VLMs) through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Huajie Tan , Yuheng Ji , Xiaoshuai Hao , Xiansheng Chen , Pengwei Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Shanghang Zhang

We propose SplitNet, a method for decoupling visual perception and policy learning. By incorporating auxiliary tasks and selective learning of portions of the model, we explicitly decompose the learning objectives for visual navigation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Daniel Gordon , Abhishek Kadian , Devi Parikh , Judy Hoffman , Dhruv Batra

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at reasoning in linguistic space but struggle with perceptual understanding that requires dense visual perception, e.g., spatial reasoning and geometric awareness. This limitation stems from the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yiming Qin , Bomin Wei , Jiaxin Ge , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Stephanie Fu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

Answering complex questions about images is an ambitious goal for machine intelligence, which requires a joint understanding of images, text, and commonsense knowledge, as well as a strong reasoning ability. Recently, multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Zhecan Wang , Haoxuan You , Liunian Harold Li , Alireza Zareian , Suji Park , Yiqing Liang , Kai-Wei Chang , Shih-Fu Chang

Reasoning about visual relationships is central to how humans interpret the visual world. This task remains challenging for current deep learning algorithms since it requires addressing three key technical problems jointly: 1) identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xiaojian Ma , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Huaizu Jiang , Chaowei Xiao , Yuke Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) are two dominant models for image analysis. While CNNs excel at extracting multi-scale features and ViTs effectively capture global dependencies, both suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shicheng Yin , Kaixuan Yin , Weixing Chen , Enbo Huang , Yang Liu

Although there are several visually-aware recommendation models in domains like fashion or even movies, the art domain lacks thesame level of research attention, despite the recent growth of the online artwork market. To reduce this gap, in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Pablo Messina , Manuel Cartagena , Patricio Cerda-Mardini , Felipe del Rio , Denis Parra