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Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) models have sparked interest in their deployment on edge devices, yet challenges in handling diverse visual modalities, manual annotation, and computational constraints remain. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Kaiwen Cai , Zhekai Duan , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

The need for improved diagnostic methods in ophthalmology is acute, especially in the underdeveloped regions with limited access to specialists and advanced equipment. Therefore, we introduce VisionUnite, a novel vision-language foundation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Zihan Li , Diping Song , Zefeng Yang , Deming Wang , Fei Li , Xiulan Zhang , Paul E. Kinahan , Yu Qiao

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

Multimodal vision language models (VLMs) have made significant progress with the support of continuously increasing model sizes and data volumes. Running VLMs on edge devices has become a challenge for their widespread application. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Miao Rang , Zhenni Bi , Chuanjian Liu , Yehui Tang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

With the recent progress in large-scale vision and language representation learning, Vision Language Pre-training (VLP) models have achieved promising improvements on various multi-modal downstream tasks. Albeit powerful, these models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jiahua Rao , Zifei Shan , Longpo Liu , Yao Zhou , Yuedong Yang

Early detection of eye diseases like glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy is crucial for preventing vision loss. While artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models hold significant promise for addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Danli Shi , Weiyi Zhang , Jiancheng Yang , Siyu Huang , Xiaolan Chen , Mayinuer Yusufu , Kai Jin , Shan Lin , Shunming Liu , Qing Zhang , Mingguang He

Recent progress in medical vision-language models (VLMs) has achieved strong performance on image-level text-centric tasks such as report generation and visual question answering (VQA). However, achieving fine-grained visual grounding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yang Xing , Jiong Wu , Savas Ozdemir , Ying Zhang , Yang Yang , Wei Shao , Kuang Gong

Early children's developmental trajectories set up a natural goal for sample-efficient pretraining of vision foundation models. We introduce BabyVLM-V2, a developmentally grounded framework for infant-inspired vision-language modeling that…

In this work, we introduce the Qwen-VL series, a set of large-scale vision-language models (LVLMs) designed to perceive and understand both texts and images. Starting from the Qwen-LM as a foundation, we endow it with visual capacity by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jinze Bai , Shuai Bai , Shusheng Yang , Shijie Wang , Sinan Tan , Peng Wang , Junyang Lin , Chang Zhou , Jingren Zhou

Despite significant advances in vision-language models (VLMs), most existing work follows an English-centric design process, limiting their effectiveness in multilingual settings. In this work, we provide a comprehensive empirical study…

Despite significant progress in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP), current approaches predominantly emphasize feature extraction and cross-modal comprehension, with limited attention to generating or transforming visual content. This gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ziyang Zhang , Yang Yu , Yucheng Chen , Xulei Yang , Si Yong Yeo

With the rapid advancement of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), several diagnostic benchmarks have recently been developed to assess these models' multi-modal reasoning proficiency. However, these benchmarks are restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Sanjoy Chowdhury , Sayan Nag , Subhrajyoti Dasgupta , Yaoting Wang , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Ruohan Gao , Dinesh Manocha

Radiology report generation, as a key step in medical image analysis, is critical to the quantitative analysis of clinically informed decision-making levels. However, complex and diverse radiology reports with cross-source heterogeneity…

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the taxonomy and evolution of multimodal foundation models that demonstrate vision and vision-language capabilities, focusing on the transition from specialist models to general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chunyuan Li , Zhe Gan , Zhengyuan Yang , Jianwei Yang , Linjie Li , Lijuan Wang , Jianfeng Gao

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have ushered in a new era in artificial intelligence, merging capabilities in both language and vision to form highly capable Visual Foundation Agents. These agents are postulated to excel across a myriad of…

The vision-language modeling capability of multi-modal large language models has attracted wide attention from the community. However, in medical domain, radiology report generation using vision-language models still faces significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yuhao Wang , Chao Hao , Yawen Cui , Xinqi Su , Weicheng Xie , Tao Tan , Zitong Yu

While foundation models in radiology are expected to be applied to various clinical tasks, computational cost constraints remain a major challenge when training on 3D-CT volumetric data. In this study, we propose TotalFM, a radiological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Kohei Yamamoto , Tomohiro Kikuchi

The development of 3D medical vision-language models holds significant potential for disease diagnosis and patient treatment. However, compared to 2D medical images, 3D medical images, such as CT scans, face challenges related to limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Haoran Lai , Zihang Jiang , Qingsong Yao , Rongsheng Wang , Zhiyang He , Xiaodong Tao , Wei Wei , Weifu Lv , S. Kevin Zhou

Large Vision-Language Models offer a new paradigm for AI-driven image understanding, enabling models to perform tasks without task-specific training. This flexibility holds particular promise across medicine, where expert-annotated data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Anita Rau , Mark Endo , Josiah Aklilu , Jaewoo Heo , Khaled Saab , Alberto Paderno , Jeffrey Jopling , F. Christopher Holsinger , Serena Yeung-Levy

This paper presents OmniVL, a new foundation model to support both image-language and video-language tasks using one universal architecture. It adopts a unified transformer-based visual encoder for both image and video inputs, and thus can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo , Luowei Zhou , Yucheng Zhao , Yujia Xie , Ce Liu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Lu Yuan