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Contrastive language-image pre-training aligns the features of text-image pairs in a common latent space via distinct encoders for each modality. While this approach achieves impressive performance in several zero-shot tasks, it cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Christian Schlarmann , Francesco Croce , Nicolas Flammarion , Matthias Hein

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

Multi-modal image fusion aggregates information from multiple sensor sources, achieving superior visual quality and perceptual features compared to single-source images, often improving downstream tasks. However, current fusion methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Zixiang Zhao , Yichen Wu , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Tao Feng , Shuang Xu

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

LiDAR and camera fusion techniques are promising for achieving 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Most multi-modal 3D object detection frameworks integrate semantic knowledge from 2D images into 3D LiDAR point clouds to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Ziying Song , Jin Fang , Sifen Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang

Mixup is a commonly adopted data augmentation technique for image classification. Recent advances in mixup methods primarily focus on mixing based on saliency. However, many saliency detectors require intense computation and are especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Hyeong Kyu Choi , Joonmyung Choi , Hyunwoo J. Kim

In Transformer architectures, tokens\textemdash discrete units derived from raw data\textemdash are formed by segmenting inputs into fixed-length chunks. Each token is then mapped to an embedding, enabling parallel attention computations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhenglun Kong , Yize Li , Fanhu Zeng , Lei Xin , Shvat Messica , Xue Lin , Pu Zhao , Manolis Kellis , Hao Tang , Marinka Zitnik

This paper proposes a novel multimodal fusion approach, aiming to produce best possible decisions by integrating information coming from multiple media. While most of the past multimodal approaches either work by projecting the features of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Valentin Vielzeuf , Alexis Lechervy , Stéphane Pateux , Frédéric Jurie

Conventional Vision-Language Models(VLMs) typically utilize a fixed number of vision tokens, regardless of task complexity. This one-size-fits-all strategy introduces notable inefficiencies: using excessive tokens leads to unnecessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Junshan Hu , Jialiang Mao , Zhikang Liu , Zhongpu Xia , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

The increasing demand to process long and high-resolution videos significantly burdens Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) due to the enormous number of visual tokens. Existing token reduction methods primarily prune tokens based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Tianyu Fu , Tengxuan Liu , Qinghao Han , Guohao Dai , Shengen Yan , Huazhong Yang , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

Accurate detection of obstacles in 3D is an essential task for autonomous driving and intelligent transportation. In this work, we propose a general multimodal fusion framework FusionPainting to fuse the 2D RGB image and 3D point clouds at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shaoqing Xu , Dingfu Zhou , Jin Fang , Junbo Yin , Zhou Bin , Liangjun Zhang

Advanced image fusion methods are devoted to generating the fusion results by aggregating the complementary information conveyed by the source images. However, the difference in the source-specific manifestation of the imaged scene content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li , Xi Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

In multi-view medical diagnosis, deep learning-based models often fuse information from different imaging perspectives to improve diagnostic performance. However, existing approaches are prone to overfitting and rely heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jingyu Guo , Christos Matsoukas , Fredrik Strand , Kevin Smith

Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

With the emergence of large model-based agents, widely adopted transformer-based architectures inevitably produce excessively long token embeddings for transmission, which may result in high bandwidth overhead, increased power consumption…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Junhe Zhang , Wanli Ni , Pengwei Wang , Dongyu Wang

Multimodal visual information fusion aims to integrate the multi-sensor data into a single image which contains more complementary information and less redundant features. However the complementary information is hard to extract, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Most existing methods in vision-language retrieval match two modalities by either comparing their global feature vectors which misses sufficient information and lacks interpretability, detecting objects in images or videos and aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xiaohan Zou , Changqiao Wu , Lele Cheng , Zhongyuan Wang

Vision-language models have been key to the development of open-vocabulary 2D semantic segmentation. Lifting these models from 2D images to 3D scenes, however, remains a challenging problem. Existing approaches typically back-project and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tomas Berriel Martins , Martin R. Oswald , Javier Civera

Self-attention and transformers have been widely used in deep learning. Recent efforts have been devoted to incorporating transformer blocks into different neural architectures, including those with convolutions, leading to various visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yancheng Wang , Yingzhen Yang