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While recent large-scale video-language pre-training made great progress in video question answering, the design of spatial modeling of video-language models is less fine-grained than that of image-language models; existing practices of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Ting Su , Bing-Chen Tsai , Tsung-Han Wu , Jia-Fong Yeh , Winston H. Hsu

Accurate and effective discrete image tokenization is crucial for long image sequence processing. However, current methods rigidly compress all content at a fixed rate, ignoring the variable information density of images and leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiusheng Huang , Xin Jiang , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu , Yequan Wang

Recent advancements in large video-language models have revolutionized video understanding tasks. However, their efficiency is significantly constrained by processing high volumes of visual tokens. Existing token compression strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xiangchen Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Teng Wang , Haigang Zhang , Feng Zheng

In autoregressive (AR) image generation, visual tokenizers compress images into compact discrete latent tokens, enabling efficient training of downstream autoregressive models for visual generation via next-token prediction. While scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianwei Xiong , Jun Hao Liew , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

Identity-preserving text-to-video (IPT2V) generation, which aims to create high-fidelity videos with consistent human identity, has become crucial for downstream applications. However, current end-to-end frameworks suffer a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuji Wang , Moran Li , Xiaobin Hu , Ran Yi , Jiangning Zhang , Han Feng , Weijian Cao , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Prior motion generation largely follows two paradigms: continuous diffusion models that excel at kinematic control, and discrete token-based generators that are effective for semantic conditioning. To combine their strengths, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Chenyang Gu , Mingyuan Zhang , Haozhe Xie , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Ziwei Liu

Visual generative and understanding models typically rely on distinct tokenizers to process images, presenting a key challenge for unifying them within a single framework. Recent studies attempt to address this by connecting the training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Junfeng Wu , Jihan Yang , Xin Yu , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

The development of unified multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is fundamentally challenged by the granularity gap between visual understanding and generation: understanding requires high-level semantic abstractions, while image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yan Li , Ning Liao , Xiangyu Zhao , Shaofeng Zhang , Xiaoxing Wang , Yifan Yang , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

Tokenizer, serving as a translator to map the intricate visual data into a compact latent space, lies at the core of visual generative models. Based on the finding that existing tokenizers are tailored to image or video inputs, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Junke Wang , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Binyue Peng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Visual tokenizers play a crucial role in diffusion models. The dimensionality of latent space governs both reconstruction fidelity and the semantic expressiveness of the latent feature. However, a fundamental trade-off is inherent between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Qingyu Shi , Size Wu , Jinbin Bai , Kaidong Yu , Yujing Wang , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li , Xuelong Li

Refining visual representations by eliminating their internal feature-level redundancy is crucial for simultaneously optimizing the performance and computational cost of models in visual tracking. To enhance their performance, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weijing Wu , Qihua Liang , Bineng Zhong , Haiying Xia , Zhiyi Mo , Shuxiang Song

In this paper, we focus on motion discrete tokenization, which converts raw motion into compact discrete tokens--a process proven crucial for efficient motion generation. In this paradigm, increasing the number of tokens is a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sheng Yan , Yong Wang , Xin Du , Junsong Yuan , Mengyuan Liu

Image tokenization has enabled major advances in autoregressive image generation by providing compressed, discrete representations that are more efficient to process than raw pixels. While traditional approaches use 2D grid tokenization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Roman Bachmann , Jesse Allardice , David Mizrahi , Enrico Fini , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Elmira Amirloo , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Amir Zamir , Afshin Dehghan

Efficient video tokenization remains a key bottleneck in learning general purpose vision models that are capable of processing long video sequences. Prevailing approaches are restricted to encoding videos to a fixed number of tokens, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wilson Yan , Volodymyr Mnih , Aleksandra Faust , Matei Zaharia , Pieter Abbeel , Hao Liu

Adapting CLIP for anomaly detection on unseen objects has shown strong potential in a zero-shot manner. However, existing methods typically rely on a single textual space to align with visual semantics across diverse objects and domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihang Zhou , Binbin Gao , Guansong Pang , Xin Wang , Jiming Chen , Shibo He

Tokenized visual representations have shown promise in image compression, yet their extension to video remains underexplored due to the challenges posed by complex temporal dynamics and stringent bit rate constraints. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Lebin Zhou , Cihan Ruan , Nam Ling , Zhenghao Chen , Wei Wang , Wei Jiang

Existing video segmenter and grounder approaches, exemplified by Sa2VA, directly fuse features within segmentation models. This often results in an undesirable entanglement of dynamic visual information and static semantics, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dang Jisheng , Wu Xudong , Wang Bimei , Lv Ning , Chen Jiayu , Jingwen Zhao , Yichu liu , Jizhao Liu , Juncheng Li , Teng Wang

In this work, we present HieraTok, a novel multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT)-based tokenizer that overcomes the inherent limitation of modeling single-scale representations. This is realized through two key designs: (1) multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Cong Chen , Ziyuan Huang , Cheng Zou , Muzhi Zhu , Kaixiang Ji , Jiajia Liu , Jingdong Chen , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

For neural video codec, it is critical, yet challenging, to design an efficient entropy model which can accurately predict the probability distribution of the quantized latent representation. However, most existing video codecs directly use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yan Lu

Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) have achieved remarkable video understanding capabilities, yet face critical efficiency bottlenecks due to quadratic computational growth with lengthy visual token sequences of long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yulin Li , Haokun Gui , Ziyang Fan , Junjie Wang , Bin Kang , Bin Chen , Zhuotao Tian