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The key challenge in learning dense correspondences lies in the lack of ground-truth matches for real image pairs. While photometric consistency losses provide unsupervised alternatives, they struggle with large appearance changes, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Prune Truong , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

To address the challenges posed by the heavy reliance of multi-output models on preset probability distributions and embedded prior knowledge in non-injective regression tasks, this paper proposes a cycle consistency-based data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Hanzhang Jia , Yi Gao

Text-to-image models offer a new level of creative flexibility by allowing users to guide the image generation process through natural language. However, using these models to consistently portray the same subject across diverse prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yoad Tewel , Omri Kaduri , Rinon Gal , Yoni Kasten , Lior Wolf , Gal Chechik , Yuval Atzmon

Diffusion models have shown impressive performance in many domains. However, the model's capability to follow natural language instructions (e.g., spatial relationships between objects, generating complex scenes) is still unsatisfactory. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Xinyan Chen , Jiaxin Ge , Tianjun Zhang , Jiaming Liu , Shanghang Zhang

Image captioning remains a fundamental task for vision language understanding, yet ground-truth supervision still relies predominantly on human-annotated references. Because human annotations reflect subjective preferences and expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhijiang Tang , Linhua Wang , Jiaxin Qi , Weihao Jiang , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Jianqiang Huang

Scene Graph, as a vital tool to bridge the gap between language domain and image domain, has been widely adopted in the cross-modality task like VQA. In this paper, we propose a new method to edit the scene graph according to the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lichang Chen , Guosheng Lin , Shijie Wang , Qingyao Wu

As pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models have become a useful tool for image synthesis, people want to specify the results in various ways. This paper tackles training-free appearance transfer, which produces an image with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sooyeon Go , Kyungmook Choi , Minjung Shin , Youngjung Uh

This paper investigates an open research task of text-to-image synthesis for automatically generating or manipulating images from text descriptions. Prevailing methods mainly use the text as conditions for GAN generation, and train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

Generative AI has significantly advanced text-driven image generation, but it still faces challenges in producing outputs that consistently align with evolving user preferences and intents, particularly in multi-turn dialogue scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kun Li , Jianhui Wang , Miao Zhang , Xueqian Wang

Robot manipulation relying on learned object-centric descriptors became popular in recent years. Visual descriptors can easily describe manipulation task objectives, they can be learned efficiently using self-supervision, and they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 David B. Adrian , Andras Gabor Kupcsik , Markus Spies , Heiko Neumann

Text-to-image models are powerful for producing high-quality images based on given text prompts, but crafting these prompts often requires specialized vocabulary. To address this, existing methods train rewriting models with supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongji Yang , Yucheng Zhou , Wencheng Han , Jianbing Shen

We present CyCLeGen, a unified vision-language foundation model capable of both image understanding and image generation within a single autoregressive framework. Unlike existing vision models that depend on separate modules for perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaojun Shan , Haoyu Shen , Yucheng Mao , Xiang Zhang , Abhay Anand , Bingnan Li , Haiyang Xu , Zhuowen Tu

Explaining artificial intelligence (AI) predictions is increasingly important and even imperative in many high-stakes applications where humans are the ultimate decision-makers. In this work, we propose two novel architectures of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Giang Nguyen , Mohammad Reza Taesiri , Anh Nguyen

Machine translation between many languages at once is highly challenging, since training with ground truth requires supervision between all language pairs, which is difficult to obtain. Our key insight is that, while languages may vary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Dídac Surís , Dave Epstein , Carl Vondrick

This paper considers the task of matching images and sentences by learning a visual-textual embedding space for cross-modal retrieval. Finding such a space is a challenging task since the features and representations of text and image are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hadi Abdi Khojasteh , Ebrahim Ansari , Parvin Razzaghi , Akbar Karimi

The ability to describe images with natural language sentences is the hallmark for image and language understanding. Such a system has wide ranging applications such as annotating images and using natural sentences to search for images.In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Afroze Ibrahim Baqapuri

Applying image processing algorithms independently to each frame of a video often leads to undesired inconsistent results over time. Developing temporally consistent video-based extensions, however, requires domain knowledge for individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Wei-Sheng Lai , Jia-Bin Huang , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman , Ersin Yumer , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Many scene text recognition approaches are based on purely visual information and ignore the semantic relation between scene and text. In this paper, we tackle this problem from natural language processing perspective to fill the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Ahmed Sabir , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Lluís Padró

Alignment of large language models remains a central challenge in natural language processing. Preference optimization has emerged as a popular and effective method for improving alignment, typically through training-time or prompt-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Frédéric Berdoz , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , René Caky , Roger Wattenhofer

Detecting AI-generated text is an important but challenging problem. Existing likelihood-based detection methods are often sensitive to content complexity and may exhibit unstable performance. In this paper, our key insight is that modern…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junxi Wu , Kailin Huang , Dongjian Hu , Bin Chen , Hao Wu , Shu-Tao Xia , Changliang Zou