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As the key component in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the ability of the visual encoder greatly affects MLLM's understanding on diverse image content. Although some large-scale pretrained vision encoders such as vision encoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zhuofan Zong , Bingqi Ma , Dazhong Shen , Guanglu Song , Hao Shao , Dongzhi Jiang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

Currently, inspired by the success of vision-language models (VLMs), an increasing number of researchers are focusing on improving VLMs and have achieved promising results. However, most existing methods concentrate on optimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Dawei Yan , Pengcheng Li , Yang Li , Hao Chen , Qingguo Chen , Weihua Luo , Wei Dong , Qingsen Yan , Haokui Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in various visual understanding tasks. However, the majority of these models are constrained to process low-resolution images, which limits their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xiangyu Zhao , Xiangtai Li , Haodong Duan , Haian Huang , Yining Li , Kai Chen , Hua Yang

Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sho Takishita , Jay Gala , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Kentaro Inui , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Most Video-Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) adopt an encoder-decoder framework, where a vision encoder extracts frame-wise features for processing by a language model. However, this approach incurs high computational costs, introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Handong Li , Yiyuan Zhang , Longteng Guo , Xiangyu Yue , Jing Liu

In the past year, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in tasks such as visual question answering, visual understanding and reasoning. However, the extensive model size and high training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yizhang Jin , Jian Li , Yexin Liu , Tianjun Gu , Kai Wu , Zhengkai Jiang , Muyang He , Bo Zhao , Xin Tan , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Low-shot image classification, where training images are limited or inaccessible, has benefited from recent progress on pre-trained vision-language (VL) models with strong generalizability, e.g. CLIP. Prompt learning methods built with VL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zhaoheng Zheng , Jingmin Wei , Xuefeng Hu , Haidong Zhu , Ram Nevatia

Monocular depth estimation is a critical function in computer vision applications. This paper shows that large language models (LLMs) can effectively interpret depth with minimal supervision, using efficient resource utilization and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhongyi Xia , Tianzhao Wu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) require comprehensive visual inputs to achieve dense understanding of the physical world. While existing MLLMs demonstrate impressive world understanding capabilities through limited field-of-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yikang Zhou , Tao Zhang , Dizhe Zhang , Shunping Ji , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi

With the rapid advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), connectors play a pivotal role in bridging diverse modalities and enhancing model performance. However, the design and evolution of connectors have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xun Zhu , Zheng Zhang , Xi Chen , Yiming Shi , Miao Li , Ji Wu

Recently, large language and vision models (LLVMs) have received significant attention and development efforts due to their remarkable generalization performance across a wide range of tasks requiring perception and cognitive abilities. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Young-Jun Lee , Byungsoo Ko , Han-Gyu Kim , Yechan Hwang , Ho-Jin Choi

The success of large language models (LLMs) has fostered a new research trend of multi-modality large language models (MLLMs), which changes the paradigm of various fields in computer vision. Though MLLMs have shown promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Boyang Zheng , Jinjin Gu , Shijun Li , Chao Dong

Advances in self-supervised encoders have improved Visual Speech Recognition (VSR). Recent approaches integrating these encoders with LLM decoders improves transcription accuracy; however, it remains unclear whether these gains stem from…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rishabh Jain , Naomi Harte

The fusion of language and vision in large vision-language models (LVLMs) has revolutionized deep learning-based object detection by enhancing adaptability, contextual reasoning, and generalization beyond traditional architectures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ranjan Sapkota , Manoj Karkee

Recent studies have adapted generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into embedding extractors for vision tasks, typically through fine-tuning to produce universal representations. However, their performance on video remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Issar Tzachor , Dvir Samuel , Rami Ben-Ari

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly expanding from general video understanding to finer-grained understanding such as spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) and reasoning. In these tasks, an MLLM must localize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shida Gao , Feng Xue , Xiangfeng Wang , Anlong Ming , Zhaowen Lin , Haiyang Zhang , Teng Long , Nicu Sebe , Yihua Shao , Haozhe Wang , Wei Wang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have shown significant visual reasoning capabilities by connecting a visual encoder and a large language model. LMMs typically take in a fixed and large amount of visual tokens, such as the penultimate layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuzhang Shang , Mu Cai , Bingxin Xu , Yong Jae Lee , Yan Yan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are widely used for visual perception, understanding, and reasoning. However, long video processing and precise moment retrieval remain challenging due to LLMs' limited context size and coarse frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Weiheng Lu , Jian Li , An Yu , Ming-Ching Chang , Shengpeng Ji , Min Xia

In this paper, we focus on monolithic Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that integrate visual encoding and language decoding into a single LLM. In particular, we identify that existing pre-training strategies for monolithic MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Gen Luo , Xue Yang , Wenhan Dou , Zhaokai Wang , Jiawen Liu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Xizhou Zhu

Despite the impressive capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in integrating text and image modalities, challenges remain in accurately interpreting detailed visual elements. Vision detection models excel at recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qirui Jiao , Daoyuan Chen , Yilun Huang , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen