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Image fusion plays a key role in a variety of multi-sensor-based vision systems, especially for enhancing visual quality and/or extracting aggregated features for perception. However, most existing methods just consider image fusion as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Risheng Liu , Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Ensuring precise multimodal alignment between diffusion-generated images and input prompts has been a long-standing challenge. Earlier works finetune diffusion weight using high-quality preference data, which tends to be limited and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jiayi Guo , Chuanhao Yan , Xingqian Xu , Yulin Wang , Kai Wang , Gao Huang , Humphrey Shi

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their proficiency in understanding and reasoning over multiple images remains largely unexplored. While existing benchmarks have initiated the evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anurag Das , Adrian Bulat , Alberto Baldrati , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Bernt Schiele , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image generation models have led to a surge in subject-driven text-to-image generation, which aims to produce customized images that align with textual descriptions while preserving the identity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kewen Chen , Xiaobin Hu , Wenqi Ren

Image feature matching, a foundational task in computer vision, remains challenging for multimodal image applications, often necessitating intricate training on specific datasets. In this paper, we introduce a Unified Feature Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yide Di , Yun Liao , Hao Zhou , Kaijun Zhu , Qing Duan , Junhui Liu , Mingyu Lu

Prompt learning is effective for fine-tuning foundation models to improve their generalization across a variety of downstream tasks. However, the prompts that are independently optimized along a single modality path, may sacrifice the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yuncheng Yang , Chuyan Zhang , Zuopeng Yang , Yuting Gao , Yulei Qin , Ke Li , Xing Sun , Jie Yang , Yun Gu

While cross-lingual word embeddings have been studied extensively in recent years, the qualitative differences between the different algorithms remain vague. We observe that whether or not an algorithm uses a particular feature set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Omer Levy , Anders Søgaard , Yoav Goldberg

Large unimodal foundation models for vision and language encode rich semantic structures, yet aligning them typically requires computationally intensive multimodal fine-tuning. Such approaches depend on large-scale parameter updates, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Abhishek Dalvi , Vasant Honavar

In recent years, the upstream of Large Language Models (LLM) has also encouraged the computer vision community to work on substantial multimodal datasets and train models on a scale in a self-/semi-supervised manner, resulting in Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Keno Moenck , Duc Trung Thieu , Julian Koch , Thorsten Schüppstuhl

Multimodal image matching seeks pixel-level correspondences between images of different modalities, crucial for cross-modal perception, fusion and analysis. However, the significant appearance differences between modalities make this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Meng Yang , Fan Fan , Zizhuo Li , Songchu Deng , Yong Ma , Jiayi Ma

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

The ideal goal of image matching is to achieve stable and efficient performance in unseen domains. However, many existing learning-based optical-SAR image matching methods, despite their effectiveness in specific scenarios, exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Han Nie , Bin Luo , Jun Liu , Zhitao Fu , Huan Zhou , Shuo Zhang , Weixing Liu

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have become the cornerstone of modern computer vision, offering robust representations across a wide array of tasks. While recent advances allow these models to handle varying input sizes during training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bocheng Zou , Mu Cai , Mark Stanley , Dingfu Lu , Yong Jae Lee

Image-text matching is a key multimodal task that aims to model the semantic association between images and text as a matching relationship. With the advent of the multimedia information age, image, and text data show explosive growth, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Jinyin Wang , Haijing Zhang , Yihao Zhong , Yingbin Liang , Rongwei Ji , Yiru Cang

Image classification models often demonstrate unstable performance in real-world applications due to variations in image information, driven by differing visual perspectives of subject objects and lighting discrepancies. To mitigate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yuze Zheng , Zixuan Li , Xiangxian Li , Jinxing Liu , Yuqing Wang , Xiangxu Meng , Lei Meng

We present a novel method for exemplar-based image translation, called matching interleaved diffusion models (MIDMs). Most existing methods for this task were formulated as GAN-based matching-then-generation framework. However, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Junyoung Seo , Gyuseong Lee , Seokju Cho , Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim

Humans understand the world through the integration of multiple sensory modalities, enabling them to perceive, reason about, and imagine dynamic physical processes. Inspired by this capability, multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuehai He

Recent advances in vision-language pre-training have enabled machines to perform better in multimodal object discrimination (e.g., image-text semantic alignment) and image synthesis (e.g., text-to-image generation). On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xiao Dong , Runhui Huang , Xiaoyong Wei , Zequn Jie , Jianxing Yu , Jian Yin , Xiaodan Liang

Adapting pre-trained models to unseen feature modalities has become increasingly important due to the growing need for cross-disciplinary knowledge integration. A key challenge here is how to align the representation of new modalities with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Trong Khiem Tran , Manh Cuong Dao , Phi Le Nguyen , Thao Nguyen Truong , Trong Nghia Hoang

This paper presents ThinkDiff, a novel alignment paradigm that empowers text-to-image diffusion models with multimodal in-context understanding and reasoning capabilities by integrating the strengths of vision-language models (VLMs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenxing Mi , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Guocheng Qian , Hanrong Ye , Runtao Liu , Sergey Tulyakov , Kfir Aberman , Dan Xu