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Referring object detection and referring image segmentation are important tasks that require joint understanding of visual information and natural language. Yet there has been evidence that current benchmark datasets suffer from bias, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Runtao Liu , Chenxi Liu , Yutong Bai , Alan Yuille

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a variety of real-world tasks. However, existing VLMs typically process visual information by serializing images, a method that diverges significantly from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yueyan Li , Chenggong Zhao , Zeyuan Zang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities across various benchmarks; however, our understanding of their visual perception remains limited. In this work, we propose an eye examination process to investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nam Hyeon-Woo , Moon Ye-Bin , Wonseok Choi , Lee Hyun , Tae-Hyun Oh

As computer vision and NLP make progress, Vision-Language(VL) is becoming an important area of research. Despite the importance, evaluation metrics of the research domain is still at a preliminary stage of development. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Sangmyeong Woh , Jaemin Lee , Ho Joong Kim , Jinsuk Lee

Multimodal latent-space reasoning aims to replace explicit thinking with images by performing visual reasoning directly in a compact latent space. However, existing approaches largely rely on visual supervision and produce latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianrun Xu , Yue Sun , Qixun Wang , Jingyi Lu , Yuan Wang , Tianren Zhang , Longteng Guo , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Feng Chen , Jing Liu

Given a question-image input, the Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) model can predict an answer with the corresponding rationale, which requires inference ability from the real world. The VCR task, which calls for exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xuejiao Tang , Wenbin Zhang

Can warping tokens, rather than pixels, help multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand how a scene appears from a nearby viewpoint? While MLLMs perform well on visual reasoning, they remain fragile to viewpoint changes, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Phillip Y. Lee , Chanho Park , Mingue Park , Seungwoo Yoo , Juil Koo , Minhyuk Sung

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) with verifiable rewards has advanced large language models but remains underexplored for Vision-Language (VL) models. The Vision-Language Reward Model (VL-RM) is key to aligning VL models by providing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jipeng Zhang , Kehao Miao , Renjie Pi , Zhaowei Wang , Runtao Liu , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang

Object-centric representation (OCR) has recently become a subject of interest in the computer vision community for learning a structured representation of images and videos. It has been several times presented as a potential way to improve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Alexandre Chapin , Emmanuel Dellandrea , Liming Chen

A core component of human intelligence is the ability to identify abstract patterns inherent in complex, high-dimensional perceptual data, as exemplified by visual reasoning tasks such as Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM). Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Taylor Webb , Jonathan D. Cohen

The human visual system is able to recognize objects despite transformations that can drastically alter their appearance. To this end, much effort has been devoted to the invariance properties of recognition systems. Invariance can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Weiguang Ding , Graham W. Taylor

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) remains a significant yet challenging research problem in the realm of visual reasoning. A VCR model generally aims at answering a textual question regarding an image, followed by the rationale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Fan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Vision language models (VLMs) are AI systems paired with both language and vision encoders to process multimodal input. They are capable of performing complex semantic tasks such as automatic captioning, but it remains an open question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tyler Tran , Sangeet Khemlani , J. G. Trafton

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) calls for explanatory reasoning behind question answering over visual scenes. To achieve this goal, a model is required to provide an acceptable rationale as the reason for the predicted answers. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Xiaolin Chen , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently gained attention due to their competitive performance on multiple downstream tasks, achieved by following user-input instructions. However, VLMs still exhibit several limitations in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Simone Alghisi , Gabriel Roccabruna , Massimo Rizzoli , Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Giuseppe Riccardi

Current visual reasoning methods mainly focus on exploring specific reasoning modes. Although improvements can be achieved in particular domains, they struggle to develop general reasoning capabilities. Inspired by this, we propose a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zejun Li , Yingxiu Zhao , Jiwen Zhang , Siyuan Wang , Yang Yao , Runzhou Zhao , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Zhongyu Wei

Visual reasoning is a special visual question answering problem that is multi-step and compositional by nature, and also requires intensive text-vision interactions. We propose CMM: Cascaded Mutual Modulation as a novel end-to-end visual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Yiqun Yao , Jiaming Xu , Feng Wang , Bo Xu

Achieving artificial visual reasoning - the ability to answer image-related questions which require a multi-step, high-level process - is an important step towards artificial general intelligence. This multi-modal task requires learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Ethan Perez , Harm de Vries , Florian Strub , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville

Spatial relations are a basic part of human cognition. However, they are expressed in natural language in a variety of ways, and previous work has suggested that current vision-and-language models (VLMs) struggle to capture relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Fangyu Liu , Guy Emerson , Nigel Collier