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Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Akshar Tumu , Varad Shinde , Parisa Kordjamshidi

The goal of this paper is to learn strong lip reading models that can recognise speech in silent videos. Most prior works deal with the open-set visual speech recognition problem by adapting existing automatic speech recognition techniques…

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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos given natural language queries. Despite recent progress with large vision-language models (LVLMs) and instruction-tuning, existing approaches often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ruizhe Chen , Zhiting Fan , Tianze Luo , Heqing Zou , Zhaopeng Feng , Guiyang Xie , Hansheng Zhang , Zhuochen Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Huaijian Zhang

It is critical for vision-language models (VLMs) to comprehensively understand visual, temporal, and textual cues. However, despite rapid progress in multimodal modeling, video understanding performance still lags behind text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuxuan Zhang , EunJeong Hwang , Huaisong Zhang , Penghui Du , Yiming Jia , Dongfu Jiang , Xuan He , Shenhui Zhang , Ping Nie , Peter West , Kelsey R. Allen

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

This paper presents Vision-Language Global Localization (VLG-Loc), a novel global localization method that uses human-readable labeled footprint maps containing only names and areas of distinctive visual landmarks in an environment. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mizuho Aoki , Kohei Honda , Yasuhiro Yoshimura , Takeshi Ishita , Ryo Yonetani

Vision Large Language Models (VLMs) combine visual understanding with natural language processing, enabling tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and video analysis. While VLMs show impressive capabilities across domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ahmed Sharshar , Latif U. Khan , Waseem Ullah , Mohsen Guizani

Learning to recognize new keywords with just a few examples is essential for personalizing keyword spotting (KWS) models to a user's choice of keywords. However, modern KWS models are typically trained on large datasets and restricted to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Abhijeet Awasthi , Kevin Kilgour , Hassan Rom

We address the problem of phrase grounding by lear ing a multi-level common semantic space shared by the textual and visual modalities. We exploit multiple levels of feature maps of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hassan Akbari , Svebor Karaman , Surabhi Bhargava , Brian Chen , Carl Vondrick , Shih-Fu Chang

Vision-language foundation models have shown remarkable performance in various zero-shot settings such as image retrieval, classification, or captioning. But so far, those models seem to fall behind when it comes to zero-shot localization…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in interpreting remote sensing (RS) images through language-guided semantic. However, the effectiveness of these VLMs critically depends on high-quality image-text training…

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While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive generation abilities, they frequently struggle when it comes to specialized domains due to their limited domain-specific knowledge. Studies on domain-specific LLMs resort to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Chengyuan Liu , Shihang Wang , Lizhi Qing , Kun Kuang , Yangyang Kang , Changlong Sun , Fei Wu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims at localizing 3D object based on textual descriptions. Conventional supervised methods for 3DVG often necessitate extensive annotations and a predefined vocabulary, which can be restrictive. To address this…

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Visual localization has traditionally been formulated as a pair-wise pose regression problem. Existing approaches mainly estimate relative poses between two images and employ a late-fusion strategy to obtain absolute pose estimates.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Kunzhen Wu , Guangming Wang , Siting Zhu , Shenghai Yuan , Xun Chen , Guole Shen , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

In recent years, several machine learning models have been proposed. They are trained with a language modelling objective on large-scale text-only data. With such pretraining, they can achieve impressive results on many Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Alessandro Suglia , Ioannis Konstas , Oliver Lemon

Recent advancements in open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding heavily rely on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to register vision-language features into 3D space. However, we identify two critical limitations in these approaches: the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Fusang Wang , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Fabien Moutarde

Image geo-localization is the task of predicting the specific location of an image and requires complex reasoning across visual, geographical, and cultural contexts. While prior Vision Language Models (VLMs) have the best accuracy at this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheyuan Zhang , Runze Li , Tasnim Kabir , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Part of speech tagging in zero-resource settings can be an effective approach for low-resource languages when no labeled training data is available. Existing systems use two main techniques for POS tagging i.e. pretrained multilingual large…

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Visual inputs are often assumed to improve language understanding in multimodal models. We examine this assumption by asking whether vision-language models (VLMs) can distinguish useful visual evidence from incidental image context in…

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