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Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing "under" or "behind" relationships between only two objects, pose significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shiqi Chen , Tongyao Zhu , Ruochen Zhou , Jinghan Zhang , Siyang Gao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Mor Geva , Junxian He , Jiajun Wu , Manling Li

Camera-based 3D semantic scene completion (SSC) is pivotal for predicting complicated 3D layouts with limited 2D image observations. The existing mainstream solutions generally leverage temporal information by roughly stacking history…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Bohan Li , Jiajun Deng , Wenyao Zhang , Zhujin Liang , Dalong Du , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

We propose "Areas of Attention", a novel attention-based model for automatic image captioning. Our approach models the dependencies between image regions, caption words, and the state of an RNN language model, using three pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Marco Pedersoli , Thomas Lucas , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

Existing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods primarily learn object-invariant representations but often neglect the spatial structure and relationships among object parts. To address this limitation, we introduce Spatial Prediction (SP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Shen , Yusen Cai , Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Qing Lin , Mengmi Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been used extensively for computer vision tasks and produce rich feature representation for objects or parts of an image. But reasoning about scenes requires integration between the low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Syed Ashar Javed , Anil Kumar Nelakanti

Context matters! Nevertheless, there has not been much research in exploiting contextual information in deep neural networks. For most part, the entire usage of contextual information has been limited to recurrent neural networks. Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ismail Elezi

Establishing semantic correspondence is a core problem in computer vision and remains challenging due to large intra-class variations and lack of annotated data. In this paper, we aim to incorporate global semantic context in a flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shuaiyi Huang , Qiuyue Wang , Songyang Zhang , Shipeng Yan , Xuming He

Predicting an interaction before it is fully executed is very important in applications such as human-robot interaction and video surveillance. In a two-human interaction scenario, there often contextual dependency structure between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Qiuhong Ke , Mohammed Bennamoun , Senjian An , Farid Bossaid , Ferdous Sohel

We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Vadim Kantorov , Maxime Oquab , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev

In-context learning with attention enables large neural networks to make context-specific predictions by selectively focusing on relevant examples. Here, we adapt this idea to supervised learning procedures such as lasso regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Erin Craig , Robert Tibshirani

Contextual information, such as the co-occurrence of objects and the spatial and relative size among objects provides deep and complex information about scenes. It also can play an important role in improving object detection. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Faisal Alamri , Nicolas Pugeault

Self-attention is a method of encoding sequences of vectors by relating these vectors to each-other based on pairwise similarities. These models have recently shown promising results for modeling discrete sequences, but they are non-trivial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matthias Sperber , Jan Niehues , Graham Neubig , Sebastian Stüker , Alex Waibel

There are many limitations applying object detection algorithm on various environments. Especially detecting small objects is still challenging because they have low resolution and limited information. We propose an object detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jeong-Seon Lim , Marcella Astrid , Hyun-Jin Yoon , Seung-Ik Lee

Humans effortlessly identify objects by leveraging a rich understanding of the surrounding scene, including spatial relationships, material properties, and the co-occurrence of other objects. In contrast, most computational object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ciprian Constantinescu , Marius Leordeanu

Contextual information plays an important role in action recognition. Local operations have difficulty to model the relation between two elements with a long-distance interval. However, directly modeling the contextual information between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Congqi Cao , Yue Lu , Yifan Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yanning Zhang

Accurate breast lesion risk estimation can significantly reduce unnecessary biopsies and help doctors decide optimal treatment plans. Most existing computer-aided systems rely solely on mammogram features to classify breast lesions. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Hung Q. Vo , Pengyu Yuan , Tiancheng He , Stephen T. C. Wong , Hien V. Nguyen

Change detection is a key task in Earth observation applications. Recently, deep learning methods have demonstrated strong performance and widespread application. However, change detection faces data scarcity due to the labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ziyu Zhou , Keyan Hu , Yutian Fang , Xiaoping Rui

Deep-feature-based perceptual similarity models have demonstrated strong alignment with human visual perception in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, most existing approaches operate at a single spatial scale, implicitly assuming that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Danling Kang , Xue-Hua Chen , Bin Liu , Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao

Exploring the semantic context in scene images is essential for indoor scene recognition. However, due to the diverse intra-class spatial layouts and the coexisting inter-class objects, modeling contextual relationships to adapt various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chuanxin Song , Hanbo Wu , Xin Ma

Learning powerful discriminative features for remote sensing image scene classification is a challenging computer vision problem. In the past, most classification approaches were based on handcrafted features. However, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jun Li , Daoyu Lin , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Chibiao Ding