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Visual grounding seeks to localize the image region corresponding to a free-form text description. Recently, the strong multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have driven substantial improvements in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Seil Kang , Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Seong Jae Hwang

Ensuring robust performance on long-tail examples is an important problem for many real-world applications of machine learning, such as autonomous driving. This work focuses on the problem of identifying rare examples within a corpus of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mao Ye , Gregory P. Meyer , Zaiwei Zhang , Dennis Park , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Yuning Chai , Eric M Wolff

The task of image captioning demands an algorithm to generate natural language descriptions of visual inputs. Recent advancements have seen a convergence between image captioning research and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Davide Bucciarelli , Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP successfully find correspondences between images and text. Through the standard deterministic mapping process, an image or a text sample is mapped to a single vector in the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Shyamgopal Karthik , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata

In vision-based robot localization and SLAM, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is essential. This paper addresses the problem of VPR, which involves accurately recognizing the location corresponding to a given query image. A popular approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Soojin Woo , Seong-Woo Kim

Recent developments in vision language models (VLM) have shown great potential for diverse applications related to image understanding. In this study, we have explored state-of-the-art VLM models for vision-based transportation engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Sanjita Prajapati , Tanu Singh , Chinmay Hegde , Pranamesh Chakraborty

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in aligning visual and textual modalities, enabling a wide range of applications in multimodal understanding and generation. While they excel in zero-shot and transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hao Dong , Moru Liu , Jian Liang , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

Dual-encoder Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP are often characterized as bag-of-words systems due to their poor performance on compositional benchmarks. We argue that this limitation may stem less from deficient representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Imanol Miranda , Ander Salaberria , Eneko Agirre , Gorka Azkune

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used as perceptual modules for visual content reasoning, including through captioning and DeepFake detection. In this work, we expose a critical vulnerability of VLMs when exposed to subtle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Yansong Gao , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Vision language models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in visual question answering and image captioning, acting as a crucial link between visual and language models. However, existing open-source VLMs heavily rely on pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Aristeidis Panos , Rahaf Aljundi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Richard E Turner

An effective method for combining frozen large language models (LLM) and visual encoders involves a resampler module that creates a `visual prompt' which is provided to the LLM, along with the textual prompt. While this approach has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Alessandro Suglia , Oliver Lemon , Arash Eshghi

In the field of Class Incremental Object Detection (CIOD), creating models that can continuously learn like humans is a major challenge. Pseudo-labeling methods, although initially powerful, struggle with multi-scenario incremental learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Junsu Kim , Yunhoe Ku , Jihyeon Kim , Junuk Cha , Seungryul Baek

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) learn joint representations by mapping images and text into a shared latent space. However, recent research highlights that deterministic embeddings from standard VLMs often struggle to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aishwarya Venkataramanan , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on complex tasks involving visual input with natural language instructions. However, it remains unclear to what extent capabilities on natural images transfer to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Chenhui Zhang , Sherrie Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a complex challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate through visually rich, unfamiliar environments. Recent advances in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yicheng Duan , Kaiyu tang

Vision-language models, such as CLIP, have achieved significant success in aligning visual and textual representations, becoming essential components of many multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) like LLaVA and OpenFlamingo. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shizhan Gong , Yankai Jiang , Qi Dou , Farzan Farnia

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are transforming the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. Nonetheless, the potential of using visual prompts for emotion recognition in these models remains largely unexplored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Qixuan Zhang , Zhifeng Wang , Dylan Zhang , Wenjia Niu , Sabrina Caldwell , Tom Gedeon , Yang Liu , Zhenyue Qin

Existing machine learning models demonstrate excellent performance in image object recognition after training on a large-scale dataset under full supervision. However, these models only learn to map an image to a predefined class index,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kai Han , Xiaohu Huang , Yandong Li , Sagar Vaze , Jie Li , Xuhui Jia

Vision-language models (VLMs) embed aligned image-text pairs into a joint space but often rely on deterministic embeddings, assuming a one-to-one correspondence between images and texts. This oversimplifies real-world relationships, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sanghyuk Chun , Wonjae Kim , Song Park , Sangdoo Yun

This report introduces an enhanced method for the Foundational Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) task, leveraging the vision-language model (VLM) for object detection. However, on specific datasets, VLM may encounter the problem where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Hongpeng Pan , Shifeng Yi , Shouwei Yang , Lei Qi , Bing Hu , Yi Xu , Yang Yang