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This paper presents the \textbf{S}emantic-a\textbf{W}ar\textbf{E} spatial-t\textbf{E}mporal \textbf{T}okenizer (SweetTok), a novel video tokenizer to overcome the limitations in current video tokenization methods for compacted yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhentao Tan , Ben Xue , Jian Jia , Junhao Wang , Wencai Ye , Shaoyun Shi , Mingjie Sun , Wenjin Wu , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang

Video tokenizers are essential for latent video diffusion models, converting raw video data into spatiotemporally compressed latent spaces for efficient training. However, extending state-of-the-art video tokenizers to achieve a temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Aniruddha Mahapatra , Long Mai , David Bourgin , Yitian Zhang , Feng Liu

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of token-based methods for visual content generation. As a representative work, non-autoregressive Transformers (NATs) are able to synthesize images with decent quality in a small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Rui Lu , Jiayi Guo , Jinyi Hu , Zhiyuan Liu , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang

Masked-based autoregressive models have demonstrated promising image generation capability in continuous space. However, their potential for video generation remains under-explored. In this paper, we propose \textbf{VideoMAR}, a concise and…

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We present SceneTok, a novel tokenizer for encoding view sets of scenes into a compressed and diffusable set of unstructured tokens. Existing approaches for 3D scene representation and generation commonly use 3D data structures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohammad Asim , Christopher Wewer , Jan Eric Lenssen

Video question answering benefits from the rich information in videos, enabling various applications. However, the large volume of tokens generated from long videos presents challenges to memory efficiency and model performance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Wenya Wang

Visual tokenization via auto-encoding empowers state-of-the-art image and video generative models by compressing pixels into a latent space. Although scaling Transformer-based generators has been central to recent advances, the tokenizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Philippe Hansen-Estruch , David Yan , Ching-Yao Chung , Orr Zohar , Jialiang Wang , Tingbo Hou , Tao Xu , Sriram Vishwanath , Peter Vajda , Xinlei Chen

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

Within the scope of this contribution we propose a novel efficient spatio-temporal prediction algorithm for video coding. The algorithm operates in two stages. First, motion compensation is performed on the block to be predicted in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Jürgen Seiler , Haricharan Lakshman , André Kaup

Real-time transmission of video over wireless networks remains highly challenging, even with advanced deep models, particularly under severe channel conditions such as limited bandwidth and weak connectivity. In this paper, we propose…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial value in unified text-image understanding and reasoning, primarily by converting images into sequences of patch-level tokens that align with their architectural…

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Transformers are designed for discrete tokens, yet many real-world signals are continuous processes observed through noisy sampling. Discrete tokenizations (raw values, patches, finite differences) can be brittle in low signal-to-noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Griffin Kearney

Visual generative models based on latent space have achieved great success, underscoring the significance of visual tokenization. Mapping images to latents boosts efficiency and enables multimodal alignment for scaling up in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yunpeng Qu , Kaidong Zhang , Yukang Ding , Ying Chen , Jian Wang

Typical video modeling methods, such as LLava, represent videos as sequences of visual tokens, which are then processed by the LLM backbone for effective video understanding. However, this approach leads to a massive number of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hongzhi Zhang , Jingyuan Zhang , Xingguang Ji , Qi Wang , Fuzheng Zhang

We introduce CompTok, a training framework for learning visual tokenizers whose tokens are enhanced for compositionality. CompTok uses a token-conditioned diffusion decoder. By employing an InfoGAN-style objective, where we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bingchen Zhao , Qiushan Guo , Ye Wang , Yixuan Huang , Zhonghua Zhai , Yu Tian

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

Autoregressive image generation aims to predict the next token based on previous ones. However, this process is challenged by the bidirectional dependencies inherent in conventional image tokenizations, which creates a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Pingyu Wu , Kai Zhu , Yu Liu , Longxiang Tang , Jian Yang , Yansong Peng , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

Long-context models are essential for many applications but face inefficiencies in loading large KV caches during decoding. Prior methods enforce fixed token budgets for sparse attention, assuming a set number of tokens can approximate full…

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