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Accurate decision making in medical imaging requires reasoning over subtle visual differences between confusable conditions, yet most existing approaches rely on nearest neighbor retrieval that returns redundant evidence and reinforces a…

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Infrared and visible image fusion is a powerful technique that combines complementary information from different modalities for downstream semantic perception tasks. Existing learning-based methods show remarkable performance, but are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Benzhuang Zhang , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Matching corresponding features between two images is a fundamental task to computer vision with numerous applications in object recognition, robotics, and 3D reconstruction. Current state of the art in image feature matching has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Chen Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Ke Xian , Zhiguo Cao , Xin Li

Modern supervised semantic segmentation methods are usually finetuned based on the supervised or self-supervised models pre-trained on ImageNet. Recent work shows that transferring the knowledge from CLIP to semantic segmentation via prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

We study generating abstractive summaries that are faithful and factually consistent with the given articles. A novel contrastive learning formulation is presented, which leverages both reference summaries, as positive training data, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Shuyang Cao , Lu Wang

Today, there have been many achievements in learning the association between voice and face. However, most previous work models rely on cosine similarity or L2 distance to evaluate the likeness of voices and faces following contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chong Peng , Liqiang He , Dan Su

The Image Difference Captioning (IDC) task aims to describe the visual differences between two similar images with natural language. The major challenges of this task lie in two aspects: 1) fine-grained visual differences that require…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Linli Yao , Weiying Wang , Qin Jin

Multimodal contrastive learning is a methodology for linking different data modalities; the canonical example is linking image and text data. The methodology is typically framed as the identification of a set of encoders, one for each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Ricardo Baptista , Andrew M. Stuart , Son Tran

Recent advances have been witnessed in audio-language joint learning, such as CLAP, that shows much success in multi-modal understanding tasks. These models usually aggregate uni-modal local representations, namely frame or word features,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Yiming Li , Zhifang Guo , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu

Image restoration aims to recover high quality images from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, or low light. While recent studies have shown remarkable progress across individual or unified restoration tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 I-Hsiang Chen , Isma Hadji , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Sy-Yen Kuo , Radu Timofte , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

This work presents a novel framework CISFA (Contrastive Image synthesis and Self-supervised Feature Adaptation)that builds on image domain translation and unsupervised feature adaptation for cross-modality biomedical image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Xinrong Hu , Corey Wang , Yiyu Shi

Contrastive learning has been shown to produce generalizable representations of audio and visual data by maximizing the lower bound on the mutual information (MI) between different views of an instance. However, obtaining a tight lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Contrastively trained vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in vision and language representation learning, leading to state-of-the-art models for various downstream multimodal tasks. However, recent research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Harman Singh , Pengchuan Zhang , Qifan Wang , Mengjiao Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Jingfei Du , Yu Chen

Infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate infrared and visible information into a single fused image. Existing 2D fusion methods focus on fusing images from fixed camera viewpoints, neglecting a comprehensive understanding of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chao Yang , Deshui Miao , Chao Tian , Guoqing Zhu , Yameng Gu , Zhenyu He

Automated radiology report generation is essential for improving diagnostic efficiency and reducing the workload of medical professionals. However, existing methods face significant challenges, such as disease class imbalance and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-11 Qin Zhou , Guoyan Liang , Xindi Li , Jingyuan Chen , Wang Zhe , Chang Yao , Sai Wu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a cross-modal task that aims to retrieve target images from large-scale databases using a reference image and a modification text. Most existing methods rely on a single model to perform feature fusion and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yawei Cai , Jiapeng Mi , Nan Ji , Haotian Rong , Yawei Zhang , Zhangti Li , Wenbin Guo , Rensong Xie

Despite the evolution of deep-learning-based visual-textual processing systems, precise multi-modal matching remains a challenging task. In this work, we tackle the task of cross-modal retrieval through image-sentence matching based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Automated Audio captioning (AAC) is a cross-modal task that generates natural language to describe the content of input audio. Most prior works usually extract single-modality acoustic features and are therefore sub-optimal for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Xiaofeng Qi , Eng Siong Chng

Multimodal retrieval has emerged as a promising yet challenging research direction in recent years. Most existing studies in multimodal retrieval focus on capturing information in multimodal data that is similar to their paired texts, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Delong Zeng , Yuexiang Xie , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary multi-modal information into a single fused result. However, existing methods 1) fail to account for the degradation visible images under adverse weather conditions, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Li , Yifan Wang , Jiafeng Yan , Renlong Zhang , Bin Yang