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Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by leveraging auxiliary modalities such as images alongside textual input. While recent advances in large-scale pre-trained language and vision models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Zhuang Yu , Shiliang Sun , Jing Zhao , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang

We present a novel visual instruction tuning strategy to improve the zero-shot task generalization of multimodal large language models by building a firm text-only knowledge base. Existing work lacks sufficient experimentation on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jianhong Tu , Zhuohao Ni , Nicholas Crispino , Zihao Yu , Michael Bendersky , Beliz Gunel , Ruoxi Jia , Xin Liu , Lingjuan Lyu , Dawn Song , Chenguang Wang

Multi-modal machine translation (MMT) improves translation quality by introducing visual information. However, the existing MMT model ignores the problem that the image will bring information irrelevant to the text, causing much noise to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pengbo Liu , Hailong Cao , Tiejun Zhao

In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to translate images containing texts from one language to another. Current research of end-to-end IIMT mainly conducts on synthetic data, with simple background, single font, fixed text position, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yanzhi Tian , Zeming Liu , Zhengyang Liu , Chong Feng , Xin Li , Heyan Huang , Yuhang Guo

One of the major challenges of machine translation (MT) is ambiguity, which can in some cases be resolved by accompanying context such as images. However, recent work in multimodal MT (MMT) has shown that obtaining improvements from images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Multimodal machine translation is one of the applications that integrates computer vision and language processing. It is a unique task given that in the field of machine translation, many state-of-the-arts algorithms still only employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xin Qian , Ziyi Zhong , Jieli Zhou

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) typically enhances text-only translation by incorporating aligned visual features. Despite the remarkable progress, state-of-the-art MMT approaches often rely on paired image-text inputs at inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jie Wang , Zhendong Yang , Liansong Zong , Xiaobo Zhang , Dexian Wang , Ji Zhang

We introduce multi-modal, attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) models which incorporate visual features into different parts of both the encoder and the decoder. We utilise global image features extracted using a pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Iacer Calixto , Qun Liu , Nick Campbell

Cross-lingual cross-modal retrieval has garnered increasing attention recently, which aims to achieve the alignment between vision and target language (V-T) without using any annotated V-T data pairs. Current methods employ machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yabing Wang , Fan Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Hao Luo

Text image translation (TIT) aims to translate the source texts embedded in the image to target translations, which has a wide range of applications and thus has important research value. However, current studies on TIT are confronted with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zhibin Lan , Jiawei Yu , Xiang Li , Wen Zhang , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Degen Huang , Jinsong Su

In state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT), an attention mechanism is used during decoding to enhance the translation. At every step, the decoder uses this mechanism to focus on different parts of the source sentence to gather the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

There has been a growing interest in developing multimodal machine translation (MMT) systems that enhance neural machine translation (NMT) with visual knowledge. This problem setup involves using images as auxiliary information during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Devaansh Gupta , Siddhant Kharbanda , Jiawei Zhou , Wanhua Li , Hanspeter Pfister , Donglai Wei

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) has demonstrated the significant help of visual information in machine translation. However, existing MMT methods face challenges in leveraging the modality gap by enforcing rigid visual-linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jiafeng Xiong , Yuting Zhao

Machine translation between many languages at once is highly challenging, since training with ground truth requires supervision between all language pairs, which is difficult to obtain. Our key insight is that, while languages may vary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Dídac Surís , Dave Epstein , Carl Vondrick

Previous work on multimodal machine translation has shown that visual information is only needed in very specific cases, for example in the presence of ambiguous words where the textual context is not sufficient. As a consequence, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Julia Ive , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

We propose a new and fully end-to-end approach for multimodal translation where the source text encoder modulates the entire visual input processing using conditional batch normalization, in order to compute the most informative image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

The task of retrieving video content relevant to natural language queries plays a critical role in effectively handling internet-scale datasets. Most of the existing methods for this caption-to-video retrieval problem do not fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Valentin Gabeur , Chen Sun , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

In this paper we introduce vSTS, a new dataset for measuring textual similarity of sentences using multimodal information. The dataset is comprised by images along with its respectively textual captions. We describe the dataset both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Aitor Soroa , Eneko Agirre

This paper presents the systems developed by LIUM and CVC for the WMT16 Multimodal Machine Translation challenge. We explored various comparative methods, namely phrase-based systems and attentional recurrent neural networks models trained…