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The main challenge in learning image-conditioned robotic policies is acquiring a visual representation conducive to low-level control. Due to the high dimensionality of the image space, learning a good visual representation requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Albert Yu , Adeline Foote , Raymond Mooney , Roberto Martín-Martín

Pretraining general-purpose visual features has become a crucial part of tackling many computer vision tasks. While one can learn such features on the extensively-annotated ImageNet dataset, recent approaches have looked at ways to allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Julien Perez , Diane Larlus

In this work, we introduce Vid2Seq, a multi-modal single-stage dense event captioning model pretrained on narrated videos which are readily-available at scale. The Vid2Seq architecture augments a language model with special time tokens,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Antoine Yang , Arsha Nagrani , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Antoine Miech , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Cordelia Schmid

Image2Speech is the relatively new task of generating a spoken description of an image. This paper presents an investigation into the evaluation of this task. For this, first an Image2Speech system was implemented which generates image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Justin van der Hout , Zoltán D'Haese , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Odette Scharenborg

This paper explores sentence-level multilingual Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) that can recognize different languages with a single trained model. As the massive multilingual modeling of visual data requires huge computational costs, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Minsu Kim , Jeong Hun Yeo , Se Jin Park , Hyeongseop Rha , Yong Man Ro

Accurately assessing image complexity (IC) is critical for computer vision, yet most existing methods rely solely on visual features and often neglect high-level semantic information, limiting their accuracy and generalization. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shipeng Liu , Zhonglin Zhang , Dengfeng Chen , Liang Zhao

Bilingual lexicon induction, translating words from the source language to the target language, is a long-standing natural language processing task. Recent endeavors prove that it is promising to employ images as pivot to learn the lexicon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin , Alexander Hauptmann

Language-image pre-training largely relies on how precisely and thoroughly a text describes its paired image. In practice, however, the contents of an image can be so rich that well describing them requires lengthy captions (e.g., with 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kecheng Zheng , Yifei Zhang , Wei Wu , Fan Lu , Shuailei Ma , Xin Jin , Wei Chen , Yujun Shen

The goal of a speech-to-image transform is to produce a photo-realistic picture directly from a speech signal. Recently, various studies have focused on this task and have achieved promising performance. However, current speech-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhenxing Zhang , Lambert Schomaker

Image captioning bridges the gap between vision and language by automatically generating natural language descriptions for images. Traditional image captioning methods often overlook the preferences and characteristics of users.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xuan Wang , Guanhong Wang , Wenhao Chai , Jiayu Zhou , Gaoang Wang

Connecting Vision and Language plays an essential role in Generative Intelligence. For this reason, large research efforts have been devoted to image captioning, i.e. describing images with syntactically and semantically meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Silvia Cascianelli , Giuseppe Fiameni , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch

Text-to-image models have rapidly evolved from casual creative tools to professional-grade systems, achieving unprecedented levels of image quality and realism. Yet, most models are trained to map short prompts into detailed images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Eyal Gutflaish , Eliran Kachlon , Hezi Zisman , Tal Hacham , Nimrod Sarid , Alexander Visheratin , Saar Huberman , Gal Davidi , Guy Bukchin , Kfir Goldberg , Ron Mokady

Image Captioning, or the automatic generation of descriptions for images, is one of the core problems in Computer Vision and has seen considerable progress using Deep Learning Techniques. We propose to use Inception-ResNet Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sulabh Katiyar , Samir Kumar Borgohain

With the advancements in Large Language and Latent Diffusion models, brain decoding has achieved remarkable results in recent years. The works on the NSD dataset, with stimuli images from the COCO dataset, leverage the embeddings from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Vyacheslav Shen , Kassymzhomart Kunanbayev , Dae-Shik Kim

This paper presents a unified Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) model. The model is unified in that (1) it can be fine-tuned for either vision-language generation (e.g., image captioning) or understanding (e.g., visual question answering)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Luowei Zhou , Hamid Palangi , Lei Zhang , Houdong Hu , Jason J. Corso , Jianfeng Gao

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoliang Dai , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Hang Zhang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

Image captioning model is a cross-modality knowledge discovery task, which targets at automatically describing an image with an informative and coherent sentence. To generate the captions, the previous encoder-decoder frameworks directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ziwei Wang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Synthesizing realistic videos according to a given speech is still an open challenge. Previous works have been plagued by issues such as inaccurate lip shape generation and poor image quality. The key reason is that only motions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xiuzhe Wu , Pengfei Hu , Yang Wu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Wenming Yang , Zhongqian Sun , Xiaojuan Qi

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin