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Multimodal video understanding plays a crucial role in tasks such as action recognition and emotion classification by combining information from different modalities. However, multimodal models are prone to overfitting strong modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaoyu Ma , Ding Ding , Hao Chen

Feature modeling of different modalities is a basic problem in current research of cross-modal information retrieval. Existing models typically project texts and images into one embedding space, in which semantically similar information…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jing Yu , Chenghao Yang , Zengchang Qin , Zhuoqian Yang , Yue Hu , Weifeng Zhang

We explore Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which integrate LLMs like GPT-4 to handle multimodal data, including text, images, audio, and more. MLLMs demonstrate capabilities such as generating image captions and answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Shezheng Song , Xiaopeng Li , Shasha Li , Shan Zhao , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Xiaoguang Mao , Weimin Zhang

While multi-modal Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant success across various domains, the integration of VLMs into recommendation and retrieval systems remains a challenge, due to issues like training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Josh Beal , Eric Kim , Jinfeng Rao , Rex Wu , Dmitry Kislyuk , Charles Rosenberg

Cross-modal alignment is a crucial task in multimodal learning aimed at achieving semantic consistency between vision and language. This requires that image-text pairs exhibit similar semantics. Traditional algorithms pursue embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiang Ma , Lexin Fang , Litian Xu , Caiming Zhang

Video retrieval requires aligning visual content with corresponding natural language descriptions. In this paper, we introduce Modality Auxiliary Concepts for Video Retrieval (MAC-VR), a novel approach that leverages modality-specific tags…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Adriano Fragomeni , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework has become a widely used approach for multimodal representation learning, particularly in image-text retrieval and clustering. However, its efficacy is constrained by three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyong Feng , Xingjun Wang , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Yingda Chen , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Multi-modal reasoning plays a vital role in bridging the gap between textual and visual information, enabling a deeper understanding of the context. This paper presents the Feature Swapping Multi-modal Reasoning (FSMR) model, designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shuang Li , Jiahua Wang , Lijie Wen

This study focuses on the problem of path modeling in heterogeneous information networks and proposes a multi-hop path-aware recommendation framework. The method centers on multi-hop paths composed of various types of entities and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hongye Zheng , Yue Xing , Lipeng Zhu , Xu Han , Junliang Du , Wanyu Cui

Radiologists must utilize multiple modal images for tumor segmentation and diagnosis due to the limitations of medical imaging and the diversity of tumor signals. This leads to the development of multimodal learning in segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chuyun Shen , Wenhao Li , Haoqing Chen , Xiaoling Wang , Fengping Zhu , Yuxin Li , Xiangfeng Wang , Bo Jin

In this paper we examine the ability of low-level multimodal features to extract movie similarity, in the context of a content-based movie recommendation approach. In particular, we demonstrate the extraction of multimodal representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Konstantinos Bougiatiotis , Theodore Giannakopoulos

Pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP have shown excellent generalization ability to downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the choice of input text prompts and require careful selection of prompt templates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Vision-language pretrained models have seen remarkable success, but their application to safety-critical settings is limited by their lack of interpretability. To improve the interpretability of vision-language models such as CLIP, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ying Wang , Tim G. J. Rudner , Andrew Gordon Wilson

The pre-trained image-text models, like CLIP, have demonstrated the strong power of vision-language representation learned from a large scale of web-collected image-text data. In light of the well-learned visual features, some existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Hongwei Xue , Yuchong Sun , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and big data, a huge amount of data is generated in the network, but the data that users are really interested in a very small portion. To extract the information that users are interested in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Bo Liu

In recent years, there have been numerous developments towards solving multimodal tasks, aiming to learn a stronger representation than through a single modality. Certain aspects of the data can be particularly useful in this case - for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Cătălina Cangea , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò

Multimodal recommender systems (MRS) integrate heterogeneous user and item data, such as text, images, and structured information, to enhance recommendation performance. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) introduces new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alejo Lopez-Avila , Jinhua Du

Visual gaze estimation, with its wide-ranging application scenarios, has garnered increasing attention within the research community. Although existing approaches infer gaze solely from image signals, recent advances in visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Wang , Hao Ruan , Liangjian Wen , Yong Dai , Mingjie Wang

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semantic alignment. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hai Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Conventional recommendation systems frequently fail to fully exploit the high-dimensional semantic signals inherent in multimedia content, thereby limiting the fidelity of user preference modeling. While Multimodal Large Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiming Zhu , Xu Liu , Ziyun Xu , Zheng Wu , Joena Zhang , Sirius Chen , Chenheli Hua , Silvester Yao , Qichao Que , Wentao Shi , Junfeng Pan , Linhong Zhu