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We present a novel approach to pseudo-feedback-based ad hoc retrieval that uses language models induced from both documents and clusters. First, we treat the pseudo-feedback documents produced in response to the original query as a set of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Oren Kurland , Lillian Lee , Carmel Domshlak

Visual reasoning tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) require an interplay of visual perception with reasoning about the question semantics grounded in perception. However, recent advances in this area are still primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Saeed Amizadeh , Hamid Palangi , Oleksandr Polozov , Yichen Huang , Kazuhito Koishida

Visual question answering (VQA) is a Multidisciplinary research problem that pursued through practices of natural language processing and computer vision. Visual question answering automatically answers natural language questions according…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Param Ahir , Hiteishi Diwanji

We address a question answering task on real-world images that is set up as a Visual Turing Test. By combining latest advances in image representation and natural language processing, we propose Neural-Image-QA, an end-to-end formulation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Mateusz Malinowski , Marcus Rohrbach , Mario Fritz

Pseudo-label learning methods have been widely applied in weakly-supervised temporal action localization. Existing works directly utilize weakly-supervised base model to generate instance-level pseudo-labels for training the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Quan Zhang , Yuxin Qi , Xi Tang , Rui Yuan , Xi Lin , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

We introduce a method for composing object-level visual prompts within a text-to-image diffusion model. Our approach addresses the task of generating semantically coherent compositions across diverse scenes and styles, similar to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Gaurav Parmar , Or Patashnik , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Daniil Ostashev , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jun-Yan Zhu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Kfir Aberman

It is highly desirable yet challenging to generate image captions that can describe novel objects which are unseen in caption-labeled training data, a capability that is evaluated in the novel object captioning challenge (nocaps). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Hu , Xi Yin , Kevin Lin , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Zicheng Liu

Visual reasoning is challenging, requiring both precise object grounding and understanding complex spatial relationships. Existing methods fall into two camps: language-only chain-of-thought approaches, which demand large-scale (image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Damiano Marsili , Georgia Gkioxari

Product Quantization, a dictionary based hashing method, is one of the leading unsupervised hashing techniques. While it ignores the labels, it harnesses the features to construct look up tables that can approximate the feature space. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Benjamin Klein , Lior Wolf

Understanding human instructions is essential for enabling smooth human-robot interaction. In this work, we focus on object grounding, i.e., localizing an object of interest in a visual scene (e.g., an image) based on verbal human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Joel Alberto Santos , Zongwei Wu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Timofte

Pseudo depth maps are depth map predicitions which are used as ground truth during training. In this paper we leverage pseudo depth maps in order to segment objects of classes that have never been seen during training. This renders our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Robin Schön , Katja Ludwig , Rainer Lienhart

Visual grounding (VG) typically focuses on locating regions of interest within an image using natural language, and most existing VG methods are limited to single-image interpretations. This limits their applicability in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Wenxuan Wang , Zijia Zhao , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Erdong Hu , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in general visual tasks, their perceptual robustness remains remarkably brittle when confronted with optical illusions. These failures are often attributed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hao Guo , Fei Wang , Junjie Chen , Yiqi Nie , Jiaqi Zhao , Qiankun Li , Subin Huang

Visual Grounding (VG) methods in Visual Question Answering (VQA) attempt to improve VQA performance by strengthening a model's reliance on question-relevant visual information. The presence of such relevant information in the visual input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Daniel Reich , Tanja Schultz

Visual grounding is an essential capability of Visual Language Models (VLMs) to understand the real physical world. Previous state-of-the-art grounding visual language models usually have large model sizes, making them heavy for deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Guanqi Zhan , Changye Li , Zhijian Liu , Yao Lu , Yi Wu , Song Han , Ligeng Zhu

Scaling Visual Question Answering (VQA) to the open-domain and multi-hop nature of web searches, requires fundamental advances in visual representation learning, knowledge aggregation, and language generation. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yingshan Chang , Mridu Narang , Hisami Suzuki , Guihong Cao , Jianfeng Gao , Yonatan Bisk

3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving and robotic perception, yet its reliance on large-scale manually annotated data limits scalability and adaptability. To reduce annotation dependency, unsupervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yushen He , Lei Zhao , Weidong Chen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Improving vision-language models (VLMs) in the post-training stage typically relies on supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning, methods that necessitate costly, human-annotated data. While self-supervised techniques have proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wen Wen , Tianwu Zhi , Kanglong Fan , Yang Li , Xinge Peng , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

The evaluation of text-generative vision-language models is a challenging yet crucial endeavor. By addressing the limitations of existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmarks and proposing innovative evaluation methodologies, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Simon Ging , María A. Bravo , Thomas Brox