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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable success in visual-language understanding, demonstrating superior high-level semantic alignment within their vision encoders. An important question thus arises: Can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yikun Liu , Yuan Liu , Shangzhe Di , Haicheng Wang , Zhongyin Zhao , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Jie Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Multimodal language models (MLMs) integrate visual and textual information by coupling a vision encoder with a large language model through the specific adapter. While existing approaches commonly rely on a single pre-trained vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Matvey Skripkin , Elizaveta Goncharova , Dmitrii Tarasov , Andrey Kuznetsov

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled image-based question-answering capabilities. However, a key limitation is the use of CLIP as the visual encoder; while it can capture coarse global information, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Vatsal Agarwal , Matthew Gwilliam , Gefen Kohavi , Eshan Verma , Daniel Ulbricht , Abhinav Shrivastava

The challenge of Multimodal Deformable Image Registration (MDIR) lies in the conversion and alignment of features between images of different modalities. Generative models (GMs) cannot retain the necessary information enough from the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Mingrui Ma , Weijie Wang , Jie Ning , Jianfeng He , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used in various tasks, motivating us to develop an LLM-based assistant for videos. Instead of training from scratch, we propose a module to transform arbitrary well-trained image-based LLMs into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Lishuai Gao , Yujie Zhong , Yingsen Zeng , Haoxian Tan , Dengjie Li , Zheng Zhao

The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has ushered sophisticated reasoning capabilities into the realm of video through Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs). However, VideoLLMs currently rely on a single vision encoder for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jihoon Chung , Tyler Zhu , Max Gonzalez Saez-Diez , Juan Carlos Niebles , Honglu Zhou , Olga Russakovsky

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

While weakly supervised multi-view face reconstruction (MVR) is garnering increased attention, one critical issue still remains open: how to effectively interact and fuse multiple image information to reconstruct high-precision 3D models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Weiguang Zhao , Chaolong Yang , Jianan Ye , Rui Zhang , Yuyao Yan , Xi Yang , Bin Dong , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic growth of attention computations with the number of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingqi Fan , Anhao Zhao , Jinlan Fu , Junlong Tong , Hui Su , Yijie Pan , Wei Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen

Infrared-Visible image fusion (IVIF) aims to integrate thermal information and detailed spatial structures into a single fused image to enhance perception. However, existing evaluation approaches tend to over-optimize both hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuchen Guo , Junli Gong , Yao Lu , Xintong Xu , Yiuming Cheung , Weifeng Su

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

This paper presents several novel findings on the explainability of vision reflection in large multimodal models (LMMs). First, we show that prompting an LMM to verify the prediction of a specialized vision model can improve recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Guoyuan An , JaeYoon Kim , SungEui Yoon

All-in-one image restoration seeks to recover clean images from inputs affected by diverse and unknown degradations using a unified framework. Recent methods have shown strong performance by identifying degradation characteristics to guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eunho Lee , Rei Kawakami , Youngbae Hwang

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly emphasize complex understanding of various visual elements, including multiple objects, text information, and spatial relations. Their development for comprehensive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaotong Li , Fan Zhang , Haiwen Diao , Yueze Wang , Xinlong Wang , Ling-Yu Duan

Do we fully leverage the potential of visual encoder in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)? The recent outstanding performance of MLLMs in multimodal understanding has garnered broad attention from both academia and industry. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Huanjin Yao , Wenhao Wu , Taojiannan Yang , YuXin Song , Mengxi Zhang , Haocheng Feng , Yifan Sun , Zhiheng Li , Wanli Ouyang , Jingdong Wang

Achieving better alignment between vision embeddings and Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing the abilities of Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), particularly for recent models that rely on powerful pretrained vision encoders and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jiachen Jiang , Jinxin Zhou , Bo Peng , Xia Ning , Zhihui Zhu

In the field of multi-modal language models, the majority of methods are built on an architecture similar to LLaVA. These models use a single-layer ViT feature as a visual prompt, directly feeding it into the language models alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kaibing Chen , Dong Shen , Hanwen Zhong , Huasong Zhong , Kui Xia , Di Xu , Wei Yuan , Yifei Hu , Bin Wen , Tianke Zhang , Changyi Liu , Dewen Fan , Huihui Xiao , Jiahong Wu , Fan Yang , Size Li , Di Zhang

Transformer, as a strong and flexible architecture for modelling long-range relations, has been widely explored in vision tasks. However, when used in video inpainting that requires fine-grained representation, existed method still suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rui Liu , Hanming Deng , Yangyi Huang , Xiaoyu Shi , Lewei Lu , Wenxiu Sun , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising results, yet existing approaches struggle to effectively handle both temporal and spatial localization simultaneously. This challenge stems from two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hongyu Li , Jinyu Chen , Ziyu Wei , Shaofei Huang , Tianrui Hui , Jialin Gao , Xiaoming Wei , Si Liu

Aligning visual features with language embeddings is a key challenge in vision-language models (VLMs). The performance of such models hinges on having a good connector that maps visual features generated by a vision encoder to a shared…