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Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Medical visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires answering clinical questions of a given medical image, by taking consider of both visual and language information. However, due to the small scale of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Jinlong He , Zixu Zhao , Shenjun Zhong

In this work, we explore regions as a potential visual analogue of words for self-supervised image representation learning. Inspired by Masked Autoencoding (MAE), a generative pre-training baseline, we propose masked region autoencoding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Vaibhav Aggarwal , Yanghao Li , Martin R. Oswald , Alexander Kirillov , Cees G. M. Snoek , Xinlei Chen

Few-shot learning presents a critical solution for cancer diagnosis in computational pathology (CPath), addressing fundamental limitations in data availability, particularly the scarcity of expert annotations and patient privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhengrui Guo , Conghao Xiong , Jiabo Ma , Qichen Sun , Lishuang Feng , Jinzhuo Wang , Hao Chen

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

This paper presents SimMIM, a simple framework for masked image modeling. We simplify recently proposed related approaches without special designs such as block-wise masking and tokenization via discrete VAE or clustering. To study what let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Yutong Lin , Jianmin Bao , Zhuliang Yao , Qi Dai , Han Hu

Foundation models have transformed vision and language by learning general-purpose representations from large-scale unlabeled data, yet 3D medical imaging lacks analogous approaches. Existing self-supervised methods rely on low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yunhe Gao , Yabin Zhang , Chong Wang , Jiaming Liu , Maya Varma , Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Akshay Chaudhari , Curtis Langlotz

Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) have emerged as a robust self-supervised framework, offering remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. To increase the difficulty of the pretext task and learn richer visual representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Carlos Hinojosa , Shuming Liu , Bernard Ghanem

Most multimodal large language models (MLLMs) learn language-to-object grounding through causal language modeling where grounded objects are captured by bounding boxes as sequences of location tokens. This paradigm lacks pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yichi Zhang , Ziqiao Ma , Xiaofeng Gao , Suhaila Shakiah , Qiaozi Gao , Joyce Chai

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Amy Pu , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Stephen H. Bach

Meta-learning algorithms are widely used for few-shot learning. For example, image recognition systems that readily adapt to unseen classes after seeing only a few labeled examples. Despite their success, we show that modern meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mayank Agarwal , Mikhail Yurochkin , Yuekai Sun

This paper presents a novel masked attention-based 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) approach to enhance robotic perception and object detection in industrial and smart factory environments. U2-Net is employed for background removal to isolate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jee Won Lee , Hansol Lim , SooYeun Yang , Jongseong Brad Choi

In this paper, we address the challenge of image resolution variation for the Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM, known for its zero-shot generalizability, exhibits a performance degradation when faced with datasets with varying image sizes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Masked Image Generation Models (MIGMs) have achieved great success, yet their efficiency is hampered by the multiple steps of bi-directional attention. In fact, there exists notable redundancy in their computation: when sampling discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kaiwen Zhu , Quansheng Zeng , Yuandong Pu , Shuo Cao , Xiaohui Li , Yi Xin , Qi Qin , Jiayang Li , Yu Qiao , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is an advanced vision-language task that involves identifying and segmenting objects within an image as described by free-form text descriptions. While previous studies focused on aligning visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Song Park , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Hyunjung Shim

Accurate and efficient prediction of the molecular properties of drugs is one of the fundamental problems in drug research and development. Recent advancements in representation learning have been shown to greatly improve the performance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-17 Hui Liu , Yibiao Huang , Xuejun Liu , Lei Deng

Visual grounding, the task of linking textual queries to specific regions within images, plays a pivotal role in vision-language integration. Existing methods typically rely on extensive task-specific annotations and fine-tuning, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Liqin Luo , Guangyao Chen , Xiawu Zheng , Yongxing Dai , Yixiong Zou , Yonghong Tian

Despite recent advancements in computer vision research, object detection in aerial images still suffers from several challenges. One primary challenge to be mitigated is the presence of multiple types of variation in aerial images, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Beomchan Park , Yong Man Ro

Recent diffusion-based image editing approaches have exhibited impressive editing capabilities in images with simple compositions. However, localized editing in complex scenarios has not been well-studied in the literature, despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Qi Mao , Lan Chen , Yuchao Gu , Zhen Fang , Mike Zheng Shou

Recently, significant progress has been made in masked image modeling to catch up to masked language modeling. However, unlike words in NLP, the lack of semantic decomposition of images still makes masked autoencoding (MAE) different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Daqing Liu , Chaoyue Wang , Bing Su , Changwen Zheng