English
Related papers

Related papers: MF2-MVQA: A Multi-stage Feature Fusion method for …

200 papers

Recent advances in camera design and imaging technology have enabled the capture of high-quality images using smartphones. However, due to the limited dynamic range of digital cameras, the quality of photographs captured in environments…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Lucas Nedel Kirsten , Zhicheng Fu , Nikhil Ambha Madhusudhana

Current multi-modal image fusion methods typically rely on task-specific models, leading to high training costs and limited scalability. While generative methods provide a unified modeling perspective, they often suffer from slow inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Huayi Zhu , Xiu Shu , Youqiang Xiong , Qiao Liu , Rui Chen , Di Yuan , Xiaojun Chang , Zhenyu He

We propose a generalized class of multimodal fusion operators for the task of visual question answering (VQA). We identify generalizations of existing multimodal fusion operators based on the Hadamard product, and show that specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Brendan Duke , Graham W. Taylor

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions based on image content. Building upon this, Knowledge-Based VQA (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions that depend on external knowledge beyond the visual content of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wei Ye , Yixin Su , Yueguo Chen , Longxiang Gao , Jianjun Li , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is of tremendous interest to the research community with important applications such as aiding visually impaired users and image-based search. In this work, we explore the use of scene graphs for solving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Vinay Damodaran , Sharanya Chakravarthy , Akshay Kumar , Anjana Umapathy , Teruko Mitamura , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia , Chenhui Chu

We propose the task of free-form and open-ended Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a natural language question about the image, the task is to provide an accurate natural language answer. Mirroring real-world scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Aishwarya Agrawal , Jiasen Lu , Stanislaw Antol , Margaret Mitchell , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Leveraging both visual frames and audio has been experimentally proven effective to improve large-scale video classification. Previous research on video classification mainly focuses on the analysis of visual content among extracted video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Jinlai Liu , Zehuan Yuan , Changhu Wang

With the growing number and diversity of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), many works explore language-based ensemble, collaboration, and routing techniques across multiple VLMs to improve multi-model reasoning. In contrast, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Selim Furkan Tekin , Yichang Xu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Margaret L. Loper , Ling Liu

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Noriyuki Kugo , Xiang Li , Zixin Li , Ashish Gupta , Arpandeep Khatua , Nidhish Jain , Chaitanya Patel , Yuta Kyuragi , Yasunori Ishii , Masamoto Tanabiki , Kazuki Kozuka , Ehsan Adeli

Effectively summarizing dense 3D point cloud data and extracting motion information of moving objects (moving object segmentation, MOS) is crucial to autonomous driving and robotics applications. How to effectively utilize motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jintao Cheng , Xingming Chen , Jinxin Liang , Xiaoyu Tang , Xieyuanli Chen , Dachuan Li

Image fusion aims to synthesize a single high-quality image from a pair of inputs captured under challenging conditions, such as differing exposure levels or focal depths. A core challenge lies in effectively handling disparities in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mingwei Tang , Jiahao Nie , Guang Yang , Ziqing Cui , Jie Li

Despite significant advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for understanding complex human intentions through cross-modal interactions, capturing intricate image details remains challenging. Previous methods integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yue Cao , Yangzhou Liu , Zhe Chen , Guangchen Shi , Wenhai Wang , Danhuai Zhao , Tong Lu

Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) refers to the task of answering questions from document images. Existing work on DocVQA only considers single-page documents. However, in real scenarios documents are mostly composed of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Rubèn Tito , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Ernest Valveny

Existing attention mechanisms either attend to local image grid or object level features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Motivated by the observation that questions can relate to both object instances and their parts, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan

The development of medical vision-language foundation models has attracted significant attention in the field of medicine and healthcare due to their promising prospect in various clinical applications. While previous studies have commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Weijian Huang , Cheng Li , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiarun Liu , Hao Yang , Yong Liang , Guangming Shi , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

We propose a real-time image fusion method using pre-trained neural networks. Our method generates a single image containing features from multiple sources. We first decompose images into a base layer representing large scale intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Fayez Lahoud , Sabine Süsstrunk

Image quality assessment (IQA) is very important for both end-users and service providers since a high-quality image can significantly improve the user's quality of experience (QoE) and also benefit lots of computer vision algorithms. Most…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wei Sun , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Guangtao Zhai , Siwei Ma

Multimodal medical image fusion helps to increase efficiency in medical diagnosis. This paper presents multimodal medical image fusion by selecting relevant features using Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Particle Swarm Optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Padmavathi K , Mahima Bhat , Maya V Karki

In recent years, Visual Question Localized-Answering in robotic surgery (Surgical-VQLA) has gained significant attention for its potential to assist medical students and junior doctors in understanding surgical scenes. Recently, the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pengfei Hao , Hongqiu Wang , Shuaibo Li , Zhaohu Xing , Guang Yang , Kaishun Wu , Lei Zhu

Multi-frame depth estimation generally achieves high accuracy relying on the multi-view geometric consistency. When applied in dynamic scenes, e.g., autonomous driving, this consistency is usually violated in the dynamic areas, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rui Li , Dong Gong , Wei Yin , Hao Chen , Yu Zhu , Kaixuan Wang , Xiaozhi Chen , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang