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People can recognize scenes across many different modalities beyond natural images. In this paper, we investigate how to learn cross-modal scene representations that transfer across modalities. To study this problem, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Lluis Castrejon , Yusuf Aytar , Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

Large language models have given social robots the ability to autonomously engage in open-domain conversations. However, they are still missing a fundamental social skill: making use of the multiple modalities that carry social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ruben Janssens , Tony Belpaeme

Despite participants engaging in unimodal stimuli, such as watching images or silent videos, recent work has demonstrated that multi-modal Transformer models can predict visual brain activity impressively well, even with incongruent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-27 Subba Reddy Oota , Khushbu Pahwa , Mounika Marreddy , Maneesh Singh , Manish Gupta , Bapi S. Raju

People can recognize scenes across many different modalities beyond natural images. In this paper, we investigate how to learn cross-modal scene representations that transfer across modalities. To study this problem, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Yusuf Aytar , Lluis Castrejon , Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

Multimodal foundation models aim to create a unified representation space that abstracts away from surface features like language syntax or modality differences. To investigate this, we study the internal representations of three recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Hyunji Lee , Danni Liu , Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Jan Niehues

Recent literature shows that large-scale language modeling provides excellent reusable sentence representations with both recurrent and self-attentive architectures. However, there has been less clarity on the commonalities and differences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Jindřich Libovický , Pranava Madhyastha

Multimodal learning assumes all modality combinations of interest are available during training to learn cross-modal correspondences. In this paper, we challenge this modality-complete assumption for multimodal learning and instead strive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yunhua Zhang , Hazel Doughty , Cees G. M. Snoek

Ambivalence and hesitancy (A/H) are subtle affective states where a person shows conflicting signals through different channels -- saying one thing while their face or voice tells another story. Recognising these states automatically is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Hichem Telli , Azeddine Benlamoudi , Salah Eddine Herrouz , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Abdenour Hadid

Multi-modal machine translation aims at translating the source sentence into a different language in the presence of the paired image. Previous work suggests that additional visual information only provides dispensable help to translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Pengcheng Yang , Boxing Chen , Pei Zhang , Xu Sun

As large-scale models evolve, language instructions are increasingly utilized in multi-modal tasks. Due to human language habits, these instructions often contain ambiguities in real-world scenarios, necessitating the integration of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Minheng Ni , Yutao Fan , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

In real-world scenarios, many data processing problems often involve heterogeneous images associated with different imaging modalities. Since these multimodal images originate from the same phenomenon, it is realistic to assume that they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Pingfan Song , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Multimodal sentiment analysis is a core research area that studies speaker sentiment expressed from the language, visual, and acoustic modalities. The central challenge in multimodal learning involves inferring joint representations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hai Pham , Paul Pu Liang , Thomas Manzini , Louis-Philippe Morency , Barnabas Poczos

Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly combine visual and textual information to perform complex tasks. However, conflicts between their internal knowledge and external visual input can lead to hallucinations and unreliable predictions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Francesco Ortu , Zhijing Jin , Diego Doimo , Alberto Cazzaniga

Recent advances in vision language models (VLMs) offer reasoning capabilities, yet how these unfold and integrate visual and textual information remains unclear. We analyze reasoning dynamics in 18 VLMs covering instruction-tuned and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Danae Sánchez Villegas , Samuel Lewis-Lim , Nikolaos Aletras , Desmond Elliott

Lately, researchers in artificial intelligence have been really interested in how language and vision come together, giving rise to the development of multimodal models that aim to seamlessly integrate textual and visual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Rajat Chawla , Arkajit Datta , Tushar Verma , Adarsh Jha , Anmol Gautam , Ayush Vatsal , Sukrit Chaterjee , Mukunda NS , Ishaan Bhola

Deep learning methods have revolutionized speech recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing since 2010. Each of these tasks involves a single modality in their input signals. However, many applications in the artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chao Zhang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodong He , Li Deng

Humans express their emotions via facial expressions, voice intonation and word choices. To infer the nature of the underlying emotion, recognition models may use a single modality, such as vision, audio, and text, or a combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in visual understanding. This impressive leap raises a compelling question: how can language models, initially trained solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jing Bi , Junjia Guo , Yunlong Tang , Lianggong Bruce Wen , Zhang Liu , Chenliang Xu

Vision language models (VLMs) are AI systems paired with both language and vision encoders to process multimodal input. They are capable of performing complex semantic tasks such as automatic captioning, but it remains an open question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tyler Tran , Sangeet Khemlani , J. G. Trafton

As human-robot collaboration is becoming more widespread, there is a need for a more natural way of communicating with the robot. This includes combining data from several modalities together with the context of the situation and background…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Petr Vanc , Radoslav Skoviera , Karla Stepanova