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In this paper, we investigate whether artificial agents can develop a shared language in an ecological setting where communication relies on a sensory-motor channel. To this end, we introduce the Graphical Referential Game (GREG) where a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Tristan Karch , Yoann Lemesle , Romain Laroche , Clément Moulin-Frier , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

The interest of the deep learning community in image synthesis has grown massively in recent years. Nowadays, deep generative methods, and especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are leading to state-of-the-art performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Unified multimodal models integrate the reasoning capacity of large language models with both image understanding and generation, showing great promise for advanced multimodal intelligence. However, the community still lacks a rigorous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hongxiang Li , Yaowei Li , Bin Lin , Yuwei Niu , Yuhang Yang , Xiaoshuang Huang , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Long Chen

High-precision medical diagnosis relies not only on static imaging features but also on the implicit diagnostic memory experts instantly invoke during image interpretation. We pinpoint a fundamental cognitive misalignment in medical VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chunzheng Zhu , Jiaqi Zeng , Junyu Jiang , Jianxin Lin , Yijun Wang

This study presents a novel framework for counterfactual user behavior forecasting that combines structural causal models with transformer-based generative artificial intelligence. To model fictitious situations, the method creates causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao , Ravi Kiran Vadlamani

The prevalence of machine learning models in various industries has led to growing demands for model interpretability and for the ability to provide meaningful recourse to users. For example, patients hoping to improve their diagnoses or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Daniel Nemirovsky , Nicolas Thiebaut , Ye Xu , Abhishek Gupta

Reconstructing medical images from partial measurements is an important inverse problem in Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Existing solutions based on machine learning typically train a model to directly map…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Yang Song , Liyue Shen , Lei Xing , Stefano Ermon

Counterfactual image generation is a powerful tool for augmenting training data, de-biasing datasets, and modeling disease. Current approaches rely on external classifiers or regressors to increase the effectiveness of subject-level…

The ability to distinguish whether an image is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial ingredient in human intelligence, usually accompanied by a complex and dialectical forensic and reasoning process. However, current fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yixuan Li , Xuelin Liu , Xiaoyang Wang , Bu Sung Lee , Shiqi Wang , Anderson Rocha , Weisi Lin

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically access external information, which is powerful for answering questions over previously unseen documents. Nonetheless, they struggle with high-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chi-Hsiang Hsiao , Yi-Cheng Wang , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Yi-Ren Yeh , Chu-Song Chen

Recent works show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can be successfully applied to chest X-ray data augmentation for lung disease recognition. However, the implausible and distorted pathology features generated from the less than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Yunyan Xing , Zongyuan Ge , Rui Zeng , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Jarrel Seah , Meng Law , Tom Drummond

Collective insights from a group of experts have always proven to outperform an individual's best diagnostic for clinical tasks. For the task of medical image segmentation, existing research on AI-based alternatives focuses more on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Aimon Rahman , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M Patel

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is a vital non-invasive tool for diagnosing heart diseases and evaluating cardiac health. However, the limited availability of large-scale, high-quality CMR datasets poses a major challenge to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ziyu Li , Yujian Hu , Zhengyao Ding , Yiheng Mao , Haitao Li , Fan Yi , Hongkun Zhang , Zhengxing Huang

An important goal of medical imaging is to be able to precisely detect patterns of disease specific to individual scans; however, this is challenged in brain imaging by the degree of heterogeneity of shape and appearance. Traditional…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms that can produce realistic images from randomly-sampled vectors in a multi-dimensional space. Until recently, it was not possible to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andrew Beers , James Brown , Ken Chang , J. Peter Campbell , Susan Ostmo , Michael F. Chiang , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

We present Causal-Adapter, a modular framework that adapts frozen text-to-image diffusion backbones for counterfactual image generation. Our method supports causal interventions on target attributes and consistently propagates their effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lei Tong , Zhihua Liu , Chaochao Lu , Dino Oglic , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Chen Jin

With the advancement of modern medicine and the development of technologies such as MRI, CT, and cellular analysis, it has become increasingly critical for clinicians to accurately interpret various diagnostic images. However, modern…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Ruiming Min , Minghao Liu

How humans can effectively and efficiently acquire images has always been a perennial question. A classic solution is text-to-image retrieval from an existing database; however, the limited database typically lacks creativity. By contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Leigang Qu , Haochuan Li , Tan Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Counterfactuals have become a popular technique nowadays for interacting with black-box machine learning models and understanding how to change a particular instance to obtain a desired outcome from the model. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Philip Naumann , Eirini Ntoutsi

Recent black-box counterfactual generation frameworks fail to take into account the semantic content of the proposed edits, while relying heavily on training to guide the generation process. We propose a novel, plug-and-play black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Nikolaos Spanos , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Konstantinos Thomas , Athanasios Voulodimos , Giorgos Stamou