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This paper introduces a large-scale multimodal and multilingual dataset that aims to facilitate research on grounding words to images in their contextual usage in language. The dataset consists of images selected to unambiguously illustrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Josiel Figueiredo , Chiraag Lala , Lucia Specia

We tackle a new problem of semantic view synthesis -- generating free-viewpoint rendering of a synthesized scene using a semantic label map as input. We build upon recent advances in semantic image synthesis and view synthesis for handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hsin-Ping Huang , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang

We propose a structured approach to the problem of retrieval of images by content and present a description logic that has been devised for the semantic indexing and retrieval of images containing complex objects. As other approaches do, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-08 E. Di Sciascio , F. M. Donini , M. Mongiello

Recent progress in generative models has significantly advanced image editing capabilities, yet precise and intuitive user control remains difficult. Specifically, users often struggle to communicate both exact spatial layouts and specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Anya Ji , George Ma , Téa Wright , Yiming Zhang , David M. Chan , Alane Suhr , Somayeh Sojoudi

Recently, text-guided image manipulation has received increasing attention in the research field of multimedia processing and computer vision due to its high flexibility and controllability. Its goal is to semantically manipulate parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ryugo Morita , Zhiqiang Zhang , Man M. Ho , Jinjia Zhou

Generalization in robotics is one of the most important problems. New generalization approaches use internet databases in order to solve new tasks. Modern search engines can return a large amount of information according to a query within…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Tomas Kulvicius , Irene Markelic , Minija Tamosiunaite , Florentin Wörgötter

We introduce a novel approach that takes a single semantic mask as input to synthesize multi-view consistent color images of natural scenes, trained with a collection of single images from the Internet. Prior works on 3D-aware image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shangzan Zhang , Sida Peng , Tianrun Chen , Linzhan Mou , Haotong Lin , Kaicheng Yu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou

In this paper, we present a novel approach to synthesize realistic images based on their semantic layouts. It hypothesizes that for objects with similar appearance, they share similar representation. Our method establishes dependencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yi Wang , Lu Qi , Ying-Cong Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Jiaya Jia

Most existing image retrieval systems use text queries as a way for the user to express what they are looking for. However, fine-grained image retrieval often requires the ability to also express where in the image the content they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Soravit Changpinyo , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Vittorio Ferrari , Radu Soricut

Semantic image synthesis, translating semantic layouts to photo-realistic images, is a one-to-many mapping problem. Though impressive progress has been recently made, diverse semantic synthesis that can efficiently produce semantic-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Zhentao Tan , Menglei Chai , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Qi Chu , Bin Liu , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

This paper addresses the problem of media retrieval using a multimodal query (a query which combines visual input with additional semantic information in natural language feedback). We propose a SynthTriplet GAN framework which resolves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ivona Tautkute , Tomasz Trzcinski

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

This paper explores the task of interactive image retrieval using natural language queries, where a user progressively provides input queries to refine a set of retrieval results. Moreover, our work explores this problem in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Fuwen Tan , Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Xiaoxiao Guo , Hui Wu , Song Feng , Vicente Ordonez

Automatic image cropping techniques are commonly used to enhance the aesthetic quality of an image; they do it by detecting the most beautiful or the most salient parts of the image and removing the unwanted content to have a smaller image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Oriol Corcoll

Semantic image synthesis is a process for generating photorealistic images from a single semantic mask. To enrich the diversity of multimodal image synthesis, previous methods have controlled the global appearance of an output image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

Conversational search systems increasingly employ clarifying questions to refine user queries and improve the search experience. Previous studies have demonstrated the usefulness of text-based clarifying questions in enhancing both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Clemencia Siro , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Yifei Yuan , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Maarten de Rijke

Semantic image editing requires inpainting pixels following a semantic map. It is a challenging task since this inpainting requires both harmony with the context and strict compliance with the semantic maps. The majority of the previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hakan Sivuk , Aysegul Dundar

Conditional image synthesis for generating photorealistic images serves various applications for content editing to content generation. Previous conditional image synthesis algorithms mostly rely on semantic maps, and often fail in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Aysegul Dundar , Karan Sapra , Guilin Liu , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

In this paper, we focus on semantically multi-modal image synthesis (SMIS) task, namely, generating multi-modal images at the semantic level. Previous work seeks to use multiple class-specific generators, constraining its usage in datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Zhen Zhu , Zhiliang Xu , Ansheng You , Xiang Bai

Dataset Search -- the process of finding appropriate datasets for a given task -- remains a critical yet under-explored challenge in data science workflows. Assessing dataset suitability for a task (e.g., training a classification model) is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rachel Lin , Bhavya Chopra , Wenjing Lin , Shreya Shankar , Madelon Hulsebos , Aditya G. Parameswaran