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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in vision understanding and reasoning. However, the autoregressive Transformer architecture used by MLLMs requries tokenization on input images, which limits their…

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Token-based video representation has emerged as a promising approach for enabling large language models (LLMs) to interpret video content. However, existing token reduction techniques, such as pruning and merging, often disrupt essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haichao Zhang , Yun Fu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made remarkable strides, largely driven by their ability to process increasingly long and complex contexts, such as high-resolution images, extended video sequences, and lengthy audio input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kele Shao , Keda Tao , Kejia Zhang , Sicheng Feng , Mu Cai , Yuzhang Shang , Haoxuan You , Can Qin , Yang Sui , Huan Wang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in image- and region-level remote sensing (RS) image understanding tasks, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ruizhe Ou , Yuan Hu , Fan Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Yu Liu

With the advancement of Large Language Model (LLM) for natural language processing, this paper presents an intriguing finding: a frozen pre-trained LLM layer can process visual tokens for medical image segmentation tasks. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fenghe Tang , Wenxin Ma , Zhiyang He , Xiaodong Tao , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

The success of language Transformers is primarily attributed to the pretext task of masked language modeling (MLM), where texts are first tokenized into semantically meaningful pieces. In this work, we study masked image modeling (MIM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jinghao Zhou , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Wei Shen , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Tao Kong

Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have made impressive progress in many vision-language tasks. Nevertheless, the performance of general LMMs in specific domains is still far from satisfactory. This paper proposes FoodLMM, a versatile food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yuehao Yin , Huiyan Qi , Bin Zhu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chong-Wah Ngo

Benefiting from recent advancements in large language models and modality alignment techniques, existing Large Vision-Language Models(LVLMs) have achieved prominent performance across a wide range of scenarios. However, the excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xuange Zhang , Dengjie Li , Bo Liu , Zenghao Bao , Yao Zhou , Baisong Yang , Zhongying Liu , Yujie Zhong , Zheng Zhao , Tongtong Yuan

In-context segmentation has drawn increasing attention with the advent of vision foundation models. Its goal is to segment objects using given reference images. Most existing approaches adopt metric learning or masked image modeling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaoyang Wang , Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Lu Qi , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy , Shuicheng Yan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks; however, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yue Zhou , Jiaxing Xu , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Objects appear to scale differently in natural images. This fact requires methods dealing with object-centric tasks (e.g. object proposal) to have robust performance over variances in object scales. In the paper, we present a novel segment…

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Image geolocalization, the task of determining an image's geographic origin, poses significant challenges, largely due to visual similarities across disparate locations and the large search space. To address these issues, we propose a…

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Multi-modal recommendation has gained traction as items possess rich attributes like text and images. Semantic ID-based approaches effectively discretize this information into compact tokens. However, two challenges persist: (1) Suboptimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pingjun Pan , Tingting Zhou , Peiyao Lu , Tingting Fei , Hongxiang Chen , Chuanjiang Luo

We present FourierMask, which employs Fourier series combined with implicit neural representations to generate instance segmentation masks. We apply a Fourier mapping (FM) to the coordinate locations and utilize the mapped features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Hamd ul Moqeet Riaz , Nuri Benbarka , Timon Hoefer , Andreas Zell

We present our novel deep multi-task learning method for medical image segmentation. Existing multi-task methods demand ground truth annotations for both the primary and auxiliary tasks. Contrary to it, we propose to generate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Binod Bhattarai , Ronast Subedi , Rebati Raman Gaire , Eduard Vazquez , Danail Stoyanov

In this paper, a level-wise mixture model (LMM) is developed by embedding visual hierarchy with deep networks to support large-scale visual recognition (i.e., recognizing thousands or even tens of thousands of object classes), and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Tianyi Zhao , Baopeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ning Zhou , Jun Yu , Jianping Fan

Generative models with discrete latent representations have recently demonstrated an impressive ability to learn complex high-dimensional data distributions. However, their performance relies on a long sequence of tokens per instance and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 David D. Nguyen , David Leibowitz , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

In this paper, we propose Suppression-Enhancing Mask based attention and Interactive Channel transformatiON (SEMICON) to learn binary hash codes for dealing with large-scale fine-grained image retrieval tasks. In SEMICON, we first develop a…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have recently demonstrated strong multimodal understanding, yet their fine-grained visual perception is often constrained by low input resolutions. A common remedy is to partition high-resolution images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuxuan Liang , Xu Li , Xiaolei Chen , Yi Zheng , Haotian Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Understanding human instructions to identify the target objects is vital for perception systems. In recent years, the advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new possibilities for image segmentation. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junchi Wang , Lei Ke