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Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable success in single-image tasks. However, real-world scenarios often involve intricate multi-image inputs, leading to a notable performance decline as models struggle to disentangle critical…

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Transformer architectures are now central to sequence modeling tasks. At its heart is the attention mechanism, which enables effective modeling of long-term dependencies in a sequence. Recently, transformers have been successfully applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Lin Zheng , Huijie Pan , Lingpeng Kong

Generating consecutive descriptions for videos, i.e., Video Captioning, requires taking full advantage of visual representation along with the generation process. Existing video captioning methods focus on making an exploration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Pengpeng Zeng , Haonan Zhang , Lianli Gao , Xiangpeng Li , Jin Qian , Heng Tao Shen

Reasoning is a critical ability towards complete visual understanding. To develop machine with cognition-level visual understanding and reasoning abilities, the visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) task has been introduced. In VCR, given a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Dandan Song , Siyi Ma , Zhanchen Sun , Sicheng Yang , Lejian Liao

Visual reasoning refers to the task of solving questions about visual information. Current visual reasoning methods typically employ pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) strategies or deep neural network approaches. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chao Wang , Chunbai Zhang , Yongxiao Tian , Yang Zhou , Yan Peng

The alignment of adjacent frames is considered an essential operation in video super-resolution (VSR). Advanced VSR models, including the latest VSR Transformers, are generally equipped with well-designed alignment modules. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shuwei Shi , Jinjin Gu , Liangbin Xie , Xintao Wang , Yujiu Yang , Chao Dong

Vision-language models (VLMs) are commonly trained by directly inserting image tokens from a pretrained vision encoder into the text stream of a language model. This allows text and image information to fully attend to one another within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Moritz Böhle , Amélie Royer , Juliette Marrie , Edouard Grave , Patrick Pérez

Attention-based motion aggregation concepts have recently shown their usefulness in optical flow estimation, in particular when it comes to handling occluded regions. However, due to their complexity, such concepts have been mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Azin Jahedi , Maximilian Luz , Marc Rivinius , Andrés Bruhn

The quest for algorithms that enable cognitive abilities is an important part of machine learning. A common trait in many recently investigated cognitive-like tasks is that they take into account different data modalities, such as visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Idan Schwartz , Alexander G. Schwing , Tamir Hazan

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in multi-modal reasoning, but their inference time efficiency remains a significant challenge due to the memory overhead during decoding, especially when the query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Fatih Ilhan , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Selim Furkan Tekin , Tiansheng Huang , Zachary Yahn , Yichang Xu , Ling Liu

Visual attention in Visual Question Answering (VQA) targets at locating the right image regions regarding the answer prediction, offering a powerful technique to promote multi-modal understanding. However, recent studies have pointed out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yibing Liu , Yangyang Guo , Jianhua Yin , Xuemeng Song , Weifeng Liu , Liqiang Nie

Achieving visual reasoning is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. In the last decade, several studies have applied deep neural networks (DNNs) to the task of learning visual relations from images, with modest results in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Guillermo Puebla , Jeffrey S. Bowers

In this paper, we propose a novel deep multi-level attention model to address inverse visual question answering. The proposed model generates regional visual and semantic features at the object level and then enhances them with the answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yaser Alwattar , Yuhong Guo

With the rapid growth of multimedia data, such as image and text, it is a highly challenging problem to effectively correlate and retrieve the data of different media types. Naturally, when correlating an image with textual description,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Jinwei Qi , Yuxin Peng , Yuxin Yuan

Several studies have recently pointed that existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) models heavily suffer from the language prior problem, which refers to capturing superficial statistical correlations between the question type and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yudong Han , Liqiang Nie , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Yan Yan

We present an effective method for fusing visual-and-language representations for several question answering tasks including visual question answering and visual entailment. In contrast to prior works that concatenate unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Maxwell Mbabilla Aladago , AJ Piergiovanni

Visual attention, derived from cognitive neuroscience, facilitates human perception on the most pertinent subset of the sensory data. Recently, significant efforts have been made to exploit attention schemes to advance computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Shi Pu , Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Honggang Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires AI models to comprehend data in two domains, vision and text. Current state-of-the-art models use learned attention mechanisms to extract relevant information from the input domains to answer a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Ahmed Osman , Wojciech Samek

Alternatively inferring on the visual facts and commonsense is fundamental for an advanced VQA system. This ability requires models to go beyond the literal understanding of commonsense. The system should not just treat objects as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Difei Gao , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen