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The capability to jointly process multi-modal information is becoming an essential task. However, the limited number of paired multi-modal data and the large computational requirements in multi-modal learning hinder the development. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Minsu Kim , Jee-weon Jung , Hyeongseop Rha , Soumi Maiti , Siddhant Arora , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro

Previous work on multimodal machine translation (MMT) has focused on the way of incorporating vision features into translation but little attention is on the quality of vision models. In this work, we investigate the impact of vision models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Bei Li , Chuanhao Lv , Zefan Zhou , Tao Zhou , Tong Xiao , Anxiang Ma , JingBo Zhu

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results with only large monolingual corpora in each language. However, the uncertainty of associating target with source sentences makes UNMT theoretically an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yuanhang Su , Kai Fan , Nguyen Bach , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Fei Huang

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) focuses on enhancing text-only translation with visual features, which has attracted considerable attention from both natural language processing and computer vision communities. Recent advances still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hongcheng Guo , Jiaheng Liu , Haoyang Huang , Jian Yang , Zhoujun Li , Dongdong Zhang , Zheng Cui , Furu Wei

Video-guided Multimodal Translation (VMT) has advanced significantly in recent years. However, most existing methods rely on locally aligned video segments paired one-to-one with subtitles, limiting their ability to capture global narrative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jian Chen , JinZe Lv , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

In recent years, multi-modal machine translation has attracted significant interest in both academia and industry due to its superior performance. It takes both textual and visual modalities as inputs, leveraging visual context to tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Huangjun Shen , Liangying Shao , Wenbo Li , Zhibin Lan , Zhanyu Liu , Jinsong Su

While most current work in multimodal machine translation (MMT) uses the Multi30k dataset for training and evaluation, we find that the resulting models overfit to the Multi30k dataset to an extreme degree. Consequently, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Vipin Vijayan , Braeden Bowen , Scott Grigsby , Timothy Anderson , Jeremy Gwinnup

This paper addresses the problem of simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) by exploring two main concepts: (a) adaptive policies to learn a good trade-off between high translation quality and low latency; and (b) visual information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Julia Ive , Andy Mingren Li , Yishu Miao , Ozan Caglayan , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) seeks to address the challenges posed by linguistic polysemy and ambiguity in translation tasks by incorporating visual information. A key bottleneck in current MMT research is the effective utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chenyu Lu , Shiliang Sun , Jing Zhao , Nan Zhang , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang

The combination of visual and textual representations has produced excellent results in tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering, but the inference capabilities of multimodal representations are largely untested. In the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Ander Salaberria , Aitor Soroa , Gorka Azkune , Eneko Agirre

Ambiguity resolution is a key challenge in multimodal machine translation (MMT), where models must genuinely leverage visual input to map an ambiguous expression to its intended meaning. Although prior work has proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jingheng Pan , Xintong Wang , Longyue Wang , Liang Ding , Weihua Luo , Chris Biemann

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) simultaneously takes the source sentence and a relevant image as input for translation. Since there is no paired image available for the input sentence in most cases, recent studies suggest utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Wenyu Guo , Qingkai Fang , Dong Yu , Yang Feng

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

In this work, we propose to model the interaction between visual and textual features for multi-modal neural machine translation (MMT) through a latent variable model. This latent variable can be seen as a multi-modal stochastic embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Iacer Calixto , Miguel Rios , Wilker Aziz

We address the task of text translation on the How2 dataset using a state of the art transformer-based multimodal approach. The question we ask ourselves is whether visual features can support the translation process, in particular, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zixiu Wu , Julia Ive , Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

Large language models such as BERT and the GPT series started a paradigm shift that calls for building general-purpose models via pre-training on large datasets, followed by fine-tuning on task-specific datasets. There is now a plethora of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jeremy Gwinnup , Kevin Duh

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress using large-scale textual data, but the potential of incorporating multimodal inputs, especially visual information, remains underexplored in high-resource settings. While prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Baban Gain , Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay , Samrat Mukherjee , Chandranath Adak , Asif Ekbal

Existing multimodal machine translation (MMT) datasets consist of images and video captions or general subtitles, which rarely contain linguistic ambiguity, making visual information not so effective to generate appropriate translations. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yihang Li , Shuichiro Shimizu , Weiqi Gu , Chenhui Chu , Sadao Kurohashi

We introduce a novel multimodal machine translation model that utilizes parallel visual and textual information. Our model jointly optimizes the learning of a shared visual-language embedding and a translator. The model leverages a visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Mingyang Zhou , Runxiang Cheng , Yong Jae Lee , Zhou Yu

Most existing multimodal machine translation (MMT) datasets are predominantly composed of static images or short video clips, lacking extensive video data across diverse domains and topics. As a result, they fail to meet the demands of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jinze Lv , Jian Chen , Zi Long , Xianghua Fu , Yin Chen