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We explore Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which integrate LLMs like GPT-4 to handle multimodal data, including text, images, audio, and more. MLLMs demonstrate capabilities such as generating image captions and answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Shezheng Song , Xiaopeng Li , Shasha Li , Shan Zhao , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Xiaoguang Mao , Weimin Zhang

Understanding semantic similarity among images is the core of a wide range of computer vision applications. An important step towards this goal is to collect and learn human perceptions. Interestingly, the semantic context of images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Qiong Zeng , Baoquan Chen , Yanir Kleiman , Daniel Cohen-Or , Yangyan Li

Current approaches to learning semantic representations of sentences often use prior word-level knowledge. The current study aims to leverage visual information in order to capture sentence level semantics without the need for word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Danny Merkx , Stefan Frank

Multiple imaging modalities are often used for disease diagnosis, prediction, or population-based analyses. However, not all modalities might be available due to cost, different study designs, or changes in imaging technology. If the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Boqi Chen , Marc Niethammer

Multi-modal medical image segmentation plays an essential role in clinical diagnosis. It remains challenging as the input modalities are often not well-aligned spatially. Existing learning-based methods mainly consider sharing trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jingkun Chen , Wenqi Li , Hongwei Li , Jianguo Zhang

We present a method for finding cross-modal space-time correspondences. Given two images from different visual modalities, such as an RGB image and a depth map, our model identifies which pairs of pixels correspond to the same physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ayush Shrivastava , Andrew Owens

Recent deep learning models can efficiently combine inputs from different modalities (e.g., images and text) and learn to align their latent representations, or to translate signals from one domain to another (as in image captioning, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Benjamin Devillers , Léopold Maytié , Rufin VanRullen

Training multimodal large language models has long been limited by the scarcity of high-quality paired multimodal data. Recent studies show that the shared representation space of pretrained multimodal contrastive models can serve as a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiaomin Yu , Yijiang Li , Yuhui Zhang , Hanzhen Zhao , Yue Yang , Hao Tang , Yue Song , Xiaobin Hu , Chengwei Qin , Shuicheng Yan , Hui Xiong

Visual-semantic embedding aims to learn a joint embedding space where related video and sentence instances are located close to each other. Most existing methods put instances in a single embedding space. However, they struggle to embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Huy Manh Nguyen , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Recent work has explored methods for learning continuous vector space word representations reflecting the underlying semantics of words. Simple vector space arithmetic using cosine distances has been shown to capture certain types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Sridhar Mahadevan , Sarath Chandar

Cross-lingual embeddings represent the meaning of words from different languages in the same vector space. Recent work has shown that it is possible to construct such representations by aligning independently learned monolingual embedding…

Many contrastive learning based models have achieved advanced performance in image-text matching tasks. The key of these models lies in analyzing the correlation between image-text pairs, which involves cross-modal interaction of embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Xiang Ma , Xuemei Li , Lexin Fang , Caiming Zhang

Contrastive losses have been extensively used as a tool for multimodal representation learning. However, it has been empirically observed that their use is not effective to learn an aligned representation space. In this paper, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Antonio Almudévar , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Sameer Khurana , Ricard Marxer , Alfonso Ortega

In this work we introduce a cross modal image retrieval system that allows both text and sketch as input modalities for the query. A cross-modal deep network architecture is formulated to jointly model the sketch and text input modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Sounak Dey , Anjan Dutta , Suman K. Ghosh , Ernest Valveny , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

Image-sentence retrieval has attracted extensive research attention in multimedia and computer vision due to its promising application. The key issue lies in jointly learning the visual and textual representation to accurately estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xuri Ge , Fuhai Chen , Songpei Xu , Fuxiang Tao , Joemon M. Jose

Word embeddings are a popular way to improve downstream performances in contemporary language modeling. However, the underlying geometric structure of the embedding space is not well understood. We present a series of explorations using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Hongwei , Zhou , Oskar Elek , Pranav Anand , Angus G. Forbes

Measuring similarities between different tasks is critical in a broad spectrum of machine learning problems, including transfer, multi-task, continual, and meta-learning. Most current approaches to measuring task similarities are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xinran Liu , Yikun Bai , Yuzhe Lu , Andrea Soltoggio , Soheil Kolouri

Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiaomin Yu , Yi Xin , Yuhui Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Chonghan Liu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chen Liu , Xiaoxing Hu , Ziyue Qiao , Hao Tang , Xiaobin Hu , Chengwei Qin , Hui Xiong , Yu Qiao , Shuicheng Yan

In tissue characterization and cancer diagnostics, multimodal imaging has emerged as a powerful technique. Thanks to computational advances, large datasets can be exploited to discover patterns in pathologies and improve diagnosis. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Eva Breznik , Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

We address the problem of cross-modal information retrieval in the domain of remote sensing. In particular, we are interested in two application scenarios: i) cross-modal retrieval between panchromatic (PAN) and multi-spectral imagery, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Ushasi Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee , Avik Bhattacharya , Mihai Datcu