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Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

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In this paper, we propose UniLIP, a unified framework that adapts CLIP for multimodal understanding, generation and editing. Although CLIP excels at understanding, it lacks reconstruction abilities required to be a unified visual encoder.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Hao Tang , Chenwei Xie , Xiaoyi Bao , Tingyu Weng , Pandeng Li , Yun Zheng , Liwei Wang

Text-to-image generation has greatly advanced content creation, yet accurately rendering visual text remains a key challenge due to blurred glyphs, semantic drift, and limited style control. Existing methods often rely on pre-rendered glyph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuanrui Wang , Cong Han , Yafei Li , Zhipeng Jin , Xiawei Li , SiNan Du , Wen Tao , Yi Yang , Shuanglong Li , Chun Yuan , Liu Lin

Controllable code generation, the ability to synthesize code that follows a specified style while maintaining functionality, remains a challenging task. We propose a two-stage training framework combining contrastive learning and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Dutao Zhang , Nicolas Rafael Arroyo Arias , YuLong He , Sergey Kovalchuk

Image colorization is a well-known problem in computer vision. However, due to the ill-posed nature of the task, image colorization is inherently challenging. Though several attempts have been made by researchers to make the colorization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Subhankar Ghosh , Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

In this paper, we explore the possibility of building a unified foundation model that can be adapted to both vision-only and text-only tasks. Starting from BERT and ViT, we design a unified transformer consisting of modality-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Qing Li , Boqing Gong , Yin Cui , Dan Kondratyuk , Xianzhi Du , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Matthew Brown

Language-based colorization produces plausible and visually pleasing colors under the guidance of user-friendly natural language descriptions. Previous methods implicitly assume that users provide comprehensive color descriptions for most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zheng Chang , Shuchen Weng , Peixuan Zhang , Yu Li , Si Li , Boxin Shi

The rapid progress of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and cloud-based AI agents is transforming human-AI collaboration into bidirectional, multimodal interaction. However, existing codecs remain optimized for unimodal, one-way communication,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qi Mao , Tinghan Yang , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Libiao Jin , Yan Lu

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 propose Uni-Animator, a novel Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based framework for unified image and video sketch colorization. Existing sketch colorization methods struggle to unify image and video tasks, suffering from imprecise color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xinyuan Chen , Yao Xu , Shaowen Wang , Pengjie Song , Bowen Deng

Multi-color holograms rely on simultaneous illumination from multiple light sources. These multi-color holograms could utilize light sources better than conventional single-color holograms and can improve the dynamic range of holographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yicheng Zhan , Koray Kavaklı , Hakan Urey , Qi Sun , Kaan Akşit

We present Follow-Your-Color, a diffusion-based framework for multi-instance sketch colorization. The production of multi-instance 2D line art colorization adheres to an industry-standard workflow, which consists of three crucial stages:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yinhan Zhang , Yue Ma , Bingyuan Wang , Qifeng Chen , Zeyu Wang

We introduce UniToken, an auto-regressive generation model that encodes visual inputs through a combination of discrete and continuous representations, enabling seamless integration of unified visual understanding and image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yang Jiao , Haibo Qiu , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Current image-to-image translation methods formulate the task with conditional generation models, leading to learning only the recolorization or regional changes as being constrained by the rich structural information provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yu-Jie Chen , Shin-I Cheng , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

Tokenizer is a crucial component for both visual understanding and generation. To advance toward the ultimate goal of universal modeling, recent research has focused on developing a unified tokenizer. However, existing tokenizers face a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhengrong Yue , Haiyu Zhang , Xiangyu Zeng , Boyu Chen , Chenting Wang , Shaobin Zhuang , Lu Dong , Yi Wang , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

Point-interactive image colorization aims to colorize grayscale images when a user provides the colors for specific locations. It is essential for point-interactive colorization methods to appropriately propagate user-provided colors (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jooyeol Yun , Sanghyeon Lee , Minho Park , Jaegul Choo

Color is a critical design factor for web pages, affecting important factors such as viewer emotions and the overall trust and satisfaction of a website. Effective coloring requires design knowledge and expertise, but if this process could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kotaro Kikuchi , Naoto Inoue , Mayu Otani , Edgar Simo-Serra , Kota Yamaguchi

Large language models have recently shown promise for multimodal recommendation, particularly with text and image inputs. Yet real-world recommendation signals extend far beyond these modalities. To reflect this, we formalize recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zijie Lei , Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Guanyu Lin , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

We propose UniT, a Unified Transformer model to simultaneously learn the most prominent tasks across different domains, ranging from object detection to natural language understanding and multimodal reasoning. Based on the transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ronghang Hu , Amanpreet Singh