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Recent advancements in morpheme segmentation primarily emphasize word-level segmentation, often neglecting the contextual relevance within the sentence. In this study, we redefine the morpheme segmentation task as a sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Prabin Bhandari , Abhishek Paudel

Recently, vision-language joint representation learning has proven to be highly effective in various scenarios. In this paper, we specifically adapt vision-language joint learning for scene text detection, a task that intrinsically involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Sibo Song , Jianqiang Wan , Zhibo Yang , Jun Tang , Wenqing Cheng , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

Aside from offering state-of-the-art performance in medical image generation, denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) can also serve as a representation learner to capture semantic information and potentially be used as an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Chun-Mei Feng

Medical image segmentation is undergoing a paradigm shift from conventional visual pattern matching to cognitive reasoning analysis. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in integrating linguistic and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuxin Xie , Yuming Chen , Yishan Yang , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Zhen Zhao , Jiacheng Liu , Huazhu Fu

Recent progress in VLMs has demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks in the natural image domain. Motivated by these advancements, the remote sensing community has begun to adopt VLMs for remote sensing vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Congcong Wen , Yiting Lin , Xiaokang Qu , Nan Li , Yong Liao , Xiang Li , Hui Lin

In this work, we present SEEM, a promptable and interactive model for segmenting everything everywhere all at once in an image, as shown in Fig.1. In SEEM, we propose a novel decoding mechanism that enables diverse prompting for all types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xueyan Zou , Jianwei Yang , Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Lijuan Wang , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee

An emerging family of language models (LMs), capable of processing both text and images within a single visual view, has the promise to unlock complex tasks such as chart understanding and UI navigation. We refer to these models as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tianyu Gao , Zirui Wang , Adithya Bhaskar , Danqi Chen

We present a new image compression paradigm to achieve ``intelligently coding for machine'' by cleverly leveraging the common sense of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). We are motivated by the evidence that large language/multimodal models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Jinming Liu , Yuntao Wei , Junyan Lin , Shengyang Zhao , Heming Sun , Zhibo Chen , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

The rise of large language models (LLMs) is revolutionizing information retrieval, question answering, summarization, and code generation tasks. However, in addition to confidently presenting factually inaccurate information at times (known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Henry Gilbert , Michael Sandborn , Douglas C. Schmidt , Jesse Spencer-Smith , Jules White

In this paper we address image classification tasks leveraging knowledge encoded in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). More specifically, we use the MiniGPT-4 model to extract semantic descriptions for the images, in a multimodal prompting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Maria Tzelepi , Vasileios Mezaris

The success of autoregressive (AR) language models in text generation has inspired the computer vision community to adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) for image generation. However, considering the essential differences between text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xuantong Liu , Shaozhe Hao , Xianbiao Qi , Tianyang Hu , Jun Wang , Rong Xiao , Yuan Yao

Leveraging large-scale image-text datasets and advancements in diffusion models, text-driven generative models have made remarkable strides in the field of image generation and editing. This study explores the potential of extending the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Fu-Yun Wang , Wenshuo Chen , Guanglu Song , Han-Jia Ye , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Open world image segmentation aims to achieve precise segmentation and semantic understanding of targets within images by addressing the infinitely open set of object categories encountered in the real world. However, traditional closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Danyang Li , Tianhao Wu , Bin Li , Zhenyuan Chen , Yang Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

While Transformer language models (LMs) are state-of-the-art for information extraction, long text introduces computational challenges requiring suboptimal preprocessing steps or alternative model architectures. Sparse attention LMs can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Joel Stremmel , Brian L. Hill , Jeffrey Hertzberg , Jaime Murillo , Llewelyn Allotey , Eran Halperin

Visual-language pre-training has achieved remarkable success in many multi-modal tasks, largely attributed to the availability of large-scale image-text datasets. In this work, we demonstrate that Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yanqing Liu , Kai Wang , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Mike Zheng Shou , Kaipeng Zhang , Yang You

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Image-text models excel at image-level tasks but struggle with detailed visual understanding. While these models provide strong visual-language alignment, segmentation models like SAM2 offer precise spatial boundaries for objects. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yao Xiao , Qiqian Fu , Heyi Tao , Yuqun Wu , Zhen Zhu , Derek Hoiem

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process text presented as images, yet they often perform worse than when the same content is provided as textual tokens. We systematically diagnose this "modality gap" by evaluating seven MLLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaiser Sun , Xiaochuang Yuan , Hongjun Liu , Chen Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Mark Dredze , Fan Bai

Tokenization plays a critical role in language modeling, yet existing approaches such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or WordPiece operate purely on frequency statistics, ignoring the underlying semantic structure of text. This leads to…

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