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Spatial intelligence in vision-language models (VLMs) attracts research interest with the practical demand to reason in the 3D world.Despite promising results, most existing methods follow the conventional 2D pipeline in VLMs and use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jerry Jiang , Haowen Sun , Denis Gudovskiy , Yohei Nakata , Tomoyuki Okuno , Kurt Keutzer , Wenzhao Zheng

Volumetric medical imaging technologies produce detailed 3D representations of anatomical structures. However, effective medical data visualization and exploration pose significant challenges, especially for individuals with limited medical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qixuan Liu , Shi Qiu , Yinqiao Wang , Xiwen Wu , Kenneth Siu Ho Chok , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper presents a new technique for the virtual reality (VR) visu-alization of complex volume images obtained from computer tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) by combining three-dimensional (3D) mesh processing and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Iva Vasic , Roberto Pierdicca , Emanuele Frontoni , Bata Vasic

Vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for complex diagnostic tasks in medical imaging. However, applying VLMs to multi-organ medical imaging introduces two principal challenges: (1) modality-specific vision-language alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haowen Zhu , Ning Yin , Xiaogen Zhou

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bangzheng Li , Fei Wang , Wenxuan Zhou , Nan Xu , Ben Zhou , Sheng Zhang , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

Remarkable progress in 2D Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has spurred interest in extending them to 3D settings for tasks like 3D Question Answering, Dense Captioning, and Visual Grounding. Unlike 2D VLMs that typically process images through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haoyuan Li , Yanpeng Zhou , Yufei Gao , Tao Tang , Jianhua Han , Yujie Yuan , Dave Zhenyu Chen , Jiawang Bian , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown considerable potential in digital pathology, yet their effectiveness remains limited for fine-grained, disease-specific classification tasks such as distinguishing between glomerular subtypes. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenhao Guo , Rachit Saluja , Tianyuan Yao , Quan Liu , Yuankai Huo , Benjamin Liechty , David J. Pisapia , Kenji Ikemura , Mert R. Sabuncu , Yihe Yang , Ruining Deng

Vision Large Language Models (VLMs) combine visual understanding with natural language processing, enabling tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and video analysis. While VLMs show impressive capabilities across domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ahmed Sharshar , Latif U. Khan , Waseem Ullah , Mohsen Guizani

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable potential in bridging visual and textual modalities. In computational pathology, domain-specific VLMs, which are pre-trained on extensive histopathology image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Anh Tien Nguyen , Keunho Byeon , Kyungeun Kim , Jin Tae Kwak

Radiologic diagnostic errors-under-reading errors, inattentional blindness, and communication failures-remain prevalent in clinical practice. These issues often stem from missed localized abnormalities, limited global context, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yuheng Li , Yenho Chen , Yuxiang Lai , Jike Zhong , Vanessa Wildman , Xiaofeng Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance on diverse visual and linguistic tasks, yet they remain fundamentally limited in their understanding of 3D spatial structures. We propose Geometric Distillation, a lightweight,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Seonho Lee , Jiho Choi , Inha Kang , Jiwook Kim , Junsung Park , Hyunjung Shim

Multimodal fusion of remote sensing images serves as a core technology for overcoming the limitations of single-source data and improving the accuracy of surface information extraction, which exhibits significant application value in fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Siyu Zhang , Lianlei Shan , Runhe Qiu

Large-scale, volumetric medical imaging datasets typically aggregate scans from different vendors and devices, resulting in highly variable resolution, slice thicknesses, and numbers of slices per study. Consequently, training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jiayi Wang , Hadrien Reynaud , Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci , Sezgin Er , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze , Bernhard Kainz

A visual-language model (VLM) pre-trained on natural images and text pairs poses a significant barrier when applied to medical contexts due to domain shift. Yet, adapting or fine-tuning these VLMs for medical use presents considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Aisha Urooj Khan , John Garrett , Tyler Bradshaw , Lonie Salkowski , Jiwoong Jason Jeong , Amara Tariq , Imon Banerjee

In medical image analysis, the expertise scarcity and the high cost of data annotation limits the development of large artificial intelligence models. This paper investigates the potential of transfer learning with pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiajin Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Pingkun Yan

Current medical vision-language models (VLMs) process volumetric brain MRI using 2D slice-based approximations, fragmenting the spatial context required for accurate neuroradiological interpretation. We developed \textbf{Brain3D}, a staged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mariano Barone , Francesco Di Serio , Giuseppe Riccio , Antonio Romano , Marco Postiglione , Antonino Ferraro , Vincenzo Moscato

This paper explores capabilities of Vision Language Models on spreadsheet comprehension. We propose three self-supervised challenges with corresponding evaluation metrics to comprehensively evaluate VLMs on Optical Character Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Shiyu Xia , Junyu Xiong , Haoyu Dong , Jianbo Zhao , Yuzhang Tian , Mengyu Zhou , Yeye He , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Surgical scene understanding is critical for surgical training and robotic decision-making in robot-assisted surgery. Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated great potential for advancing scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guankun Wang , Junyi Wang , Wenjin Mo , Long Bai , Kun Yuan , Ming Hu , Jinlin Wu , Junjun He , Yiming Huang , Nicolas Padoy , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu , Nassir Navab , Hongliang Ren

Volume visualization is a method that displays three-dimensional (3D) data in two-dimensional (2D) space. Using 3D datasets instead of 2D traditional images improves the visualization of anatomical structures, and volume visualization helps…

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models…