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Multimodal learning plays a pivotal role in advancing artificial intelligence systems by incorporating information from multiple modalities to build a more comprehensive representation. Despite its importance, current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Giordano Cicchetti , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

Robotic manipulation can be formulated as inducing a sequence of spatial displacements: where the space being moved can encompass an object, part of an object, or end effector. In this work, we propose the Transporter Network, a simple…

Universal Multimodal Retrieval (UMR) aims to enable search across various modalities using a unified model, where queries and candidates can consist of pure text, images, or a combination of both. Previous work has attempted to adopt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xin Zhang , Yanzhao Zhang , Wen Xie , Mingxin Li , Ziqi Dai , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Wenjie Li , Min Zhang

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are poised to redefine transportation by enhancing road safety, minimizing human error, and optimizing traffic efficiency. The success of AVs depends on their ability to interpret complex, dynamic environments…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Abolfazl Zarghani , Amirhossein Ebrahimi , Amir Malekesfandiari

We study the problem of multimodal fusion in this paper. Recent exchanging-based methods have been proposed for vision-vision fusion, which aim to exchange embeddings learned from one modality to the other. However, most of them project…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Renyu Zhu , Chengcheng Han , Yong Qian , Qiushi Sun , Xiang Li , Ming Gao , Xuezhi Cao , Yunsen Xian

Recently, video object segmentation (VOS) referred by multi-modal signals, e.g., language and audio, has evoked increasing attention in both industry and academia. It is challenging for exploring the semantic alignment within modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shilin Yan , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wenchao Chen , Wei Zhang , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Dong , Zhongjiang He , Peng Gao

Recently, human motion analysis has experienced great improvement due to inspiring generative models such as the denoising diffusion model and large language model. While the existing approaches mainly focus on generating motions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yiming Wu , Wei Ji , Kecheng Zheng , Zicheng Wang , Dong Xu

There are a wide range of applications that involve multi-modal data, such as cross-modal retrieval, visual question-answering, and image captioning. Such applications are primarily dependent on aligned distributions of the different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Vishaal Udandarao , Abhishek Maiti , Deepak Srivatsav , Suryatej Reddy Vyalla , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

The rapid growth of e-commerce requires robust multimodal representations that capture diverse signals from user-generated listings. Existing vision-language models (VLMs) typically align titles with primary images, i.e., single-view, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiwen Chen , Yen-Chieh Lien , Susan Liu , María Castaños , Abolfazl Razi , Xiaoting Zhao , Congzhe Su

The recent success of the generative model shows that leveraging the multi-modal embedding space can manipulate an image using text information. However, manipulating an image with other sources rather than text, such as sound, is not easy…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Seung Hyun Lee , Wonseok Roh , Wonmin Byeon , Sang Ho Yoon , Chan Young Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

Understanding human instructions and accomplishing Vision-Language Navigation tasks in unknown environments is essential for robots. However, existing modular approaches heavily rely on the quality of training data and often exhibit poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Wang , Zhirui Sun , Wenzheng Chi , Baozhi Jia , Wenjun Xu , Jiankun Wang

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Real-world data contains a vast amount of multimodal information, among which vision and language are the two most representative modalities. Moreover, increasingly heavier models, \textit{e}.\textit{g}., Transformers, have attracted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Dachuan Shi , Chaofan Tao , Ying Jin , Zhendong Yang , Chun Yuan , Jiaqi Wang

There are thousands of actively spoken languages on Earth, but a single visual world. Grounding in this visual world has the potential to bridge the gap between all these languages. Our goal is to use visual grounding to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Gunnar A. Sigurdsson , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aida Nematzadeh , Lucas Smaira , Mateusz Malinowski , João Carreira , Phil Blunsom , Andrew Zisserman

Quadrupedal locomotion is a complex, open-ended problem vital to expanding autonomous vehicle reach. Traditional reinforcement learning approaches often fall short due to training instability and sample inefficiency. We propose a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Martin Robert , Simon Brodeur , Francois Ferland

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the success of separate-encoder approaches like CLIP align…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Shuyang Cui , Satoshi Hayakawa , Wei-Yao Wang , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

We are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed and interpreted by separate parts of the human brain to constitute a complex, yet harmonious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Multi-modal learning is a fast growing area in artificial intelligence. It tries to help machines understand complex things by combining information from different sources, like images, text, and audio. By using the strengths of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Qihang Jin , Enze Ge , Yuhang Xie , Hongying Luo , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Chia Xin Liang , Jibin Guan , Joe Yeong , Xinyuan Song , Junfeng Hao

Vision-language models (VLMs) allow to embed texts and images in a shared representation space. However, it has been shown that these models are subject to a modality gap phenomenon meaning there exists a clear separation between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 François Role , Sébastien Meyer , Victor Amblard

Text-based video segmentation aims to segment the target object in a video based on a describing sentence. Incorporating motion information from optical flow maps with appearance and linguistic modalities is crucial yet has been largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Wangbo Zhao , Kai Wang , Xiangxiang Chu , Fuzhao Xue , Xinchao Wang , Yang You