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Large language models (LLMs) are growingly extended to process multimodal data such as text and video simultaneously. Their remarkable performance in understanding what is shown in images is surpassing specialized neural networks (NNs) such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Malsha Ashani Mahawatta Dona , Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel , Yinan Yu , Christian Berger

This study investigates the potential of a multimodal large language model (LLM), specifically ChatGPT-4o, to perform human-like interpretations of traffic scenes using static dashcam images. Herein, we focus on three judgment tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yuki Yoshihara , Linjing Jiang , Nihan Karatas , Hitoshi Kanamori , Asuka Harada , Takahiro Tanaka

In this paper, we propose a real-time and accurate automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) approach. Our study illustrates the outstanding design of ALPR with four insights: (1) the resampling-based cascaded framework is beneficial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yi Wang , Zhen-Peng Bian , Yunhao Zhou , Lap-Pui Chau

Personalized driving refers to an autonomous vehicle's ability to adapt its driving behavior or control strategies to match individual users' preferences and driving styles while maintaining safety and comfort standards. However, existing…

Large language-vision models (LLVM), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4, have gained prominence as powerful tools for analyzing text and imagery. The merging of these data domains represents a significant paradigm shift with far-reaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 David F. Ramirez , Tim L. Overman , Kristen Jaskie , Marv Kleine , Andreas Spanias

Today's advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), like adaptive cruise control or rear collision warning, are finding broader adoption across vehicle classes. Integrating such advanced, multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) on board a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Malsha Ashani Mahawatta Dona , Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel , Yinan Yu , Christian Berger

In this work, we study how vision-language models (VLMs) can be utilized to enhance the safety for the autonomous driving system, including perception, situational understanding, and path planning. However, existing research has largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Hao Ye , Mengshi Qi , Zhaohong Liu , Liang Liu , Huadong Ma

Vision language models (VLMs) can simultaneously reason about images and texts to tackle many tasks, from visual question answering to image captioning. This paper focuses on map parsing, a novel task that is unexplored within the VLM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 David DeFazio , Hrudayangam Mehta , Meng Wang , Ping Yang , Jeremy Blackburn , Shiqi Zhang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown satisfactory effects in many autonomous driving tasks. In this paper, MLLMs are utilized to solve joint semantic scene understanding and risk localization tasks, while only relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiaqi Fan , Jianhua Wu , Jincheng Gao , Jianhao Yu , Yafei Wang , Hongqing Chu , Bingzhao Gao

Visual Language Models (VLMs) are now increasingly being merged with Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable new capabilities, particularly in terms of improved interactivity and open-ended responsiveness. While these are remarkable…

Modern Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems achieve outstanding performance in controlled, well-defined scenarios. However, large-scale real-world usage remains challenging due to low-quality imaging devices, compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lucas Wojcik , Eduardo A. F. Machoski , Eduil Nascimento , Rayson Laroca , David Menotti

Identity of a vehicle is done through the vehicle license plate by traffic police in general. Au- tomatic vehicle license plate recognition has several applications in intelligent traffic management systems. The security situation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Lajish V. L. , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Automatic license plate recognition plays a crucial role in modern transportation systems such as for traffic monitoring and vehicle violation detection. In real-world scenarios, license plate recognition still faces many challenges and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Song-Ren Wang , Hong-Yang Shih , Zheng-Yi Shen , Wen-Kai Tai

Crash detection from video feeds is a critical problem in intelligent transportation systems. Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have transformed how we process, reason about, and summarize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sanjeda Akter , Ibne Farabi Shihab , Anuj Sharma

Today's Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased exemplary capabilities, ranging from simple text generation to advanced image processing. Such models are currently being explored for in-vehicle services such as supporting perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Malsha Ashani Mahawatta Dona , Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel , Yinan Yu , Christian Berger

Reading dirty license plates accurately in moving vehicles is challenging for automatic license plate recognition systems. Moreover, license plates are often intentionally tampered with a malicious intent to avoid police apprehension.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Bishal Shrestha , Griwan Khakurel , Kritika Simkhada , Badri Adhikari

Forensic license plate recognition (FLPR) remains an open challenge in legal contexts such as criminal investigations, where unreadable license plates (LPs) need to be deciphered from highly compressed and/or low resolution footage, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Denise Moussa , Anatol Maier , Andreas Spruck , Jürgen Seiler , Christian Riess

This paper introduces an open-source benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks in dynamic video environments. We present a curated dataset containing 1,477 manually annotated frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sankalp Nagaonkar , Augustya Sharma , Ashish Choithani , Ashutosh Trivedi

The reliable analysis of blood reports is important for health knowledge, but individuals often struggle with interpretation, leading to anxiety and overlooked issues. We explore the potential of general-purpose Vision-Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Nadia Bakhsheshi , Hamid Beigy

Object detection has always been practical. There are so many things in our world that recognizing them can not only increase our automatic knowledge of the surroundings, but can also be lucrative for those interested in starting a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mahdi Rahmani , Melika Sabaghian , Seyyede Mahila Moghadami , Mohammad Mohsen Talaie , Mahdi Naghibi , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad