English
Related papers

Related papers: PRIM: Towards Practical In-Image Multilingual Mach…

200 papers

Text Image Machine Translation (TIMT) aims to translate text embedded in images in the source-language into target-language, requiring synergistic integration of visual perception and linguistic understanding. Existing TIMT methods, whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Junxin Lu , Tengfei Song , Zhanglin Wu , Pengfei Li , Xiaowei Liang , Hui Yang , Kun Chen , Ning Xie , Yunfei Lu , Jing Zhao , Shiliang Sun , Daimeng Wei

Vision-Language Translation (VLT) is a challenging task that requires accurately recognizing multilingual text embedded in images and translating it into the target language with the support of visual context. While recent Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xintong Wang , Jingheng Pan , Yixiao Liu , Xiaohu Zhao , Chenyang Lyu , Minghao Wu , Chris Biemann , Longyue Wang , Linlong Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) systems have been shown to outperform their text-only neural machine translation (NMT) counterparts when visual context is available. However, recent studies have also shown that the performance of MMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Jiaoda Li , Duygu Ataman , Rico Sennrich

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) focuses on enhancing text-only translation with visual features, which has attracted considerable attention from both natural language processing and computer vision communities. Recent advances still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hongcheng Guo , Jiaheng Liu , Haoyang Huang , Jian Yang , Zhoujun Li , Dongdong Zhang , Zheng Cui , Furu Wei

Recently, numbers of works shows that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) can be improved to a certain extent with using visual information. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 ZhenHao Tang , XiaoBing Zhang , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

Despite the growing variety of languages supported by existing multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models, most of the world's languages are still being left behind. We aim to extend large-scale MNMT models to incorporate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wen Lai , Viktor Hangya , Yingli Shen , Alexander Fraser

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by equipping the source sentence with its corresponding image. Despite the promising performance, MMT models still suffer the problem of input degradation: models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Baijun Ji , Tong Zhang , Yicheng Zou , Bojie Hu , Si Shen

There are common semantics shared across text and images. Given a sentence in a source language, whether depicting the visual scene helps translation into a target language? Existing multimodal neural machine translation methods (MNMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Quanyu Long , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results with only large monolingual corpora in each language. However, the uncertainty of associating target with source sentences makes UNMT theoretically an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yuanhang Su , Kai Fan , Nguyen Bach , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Fei Huang

One of the major challenges of machine translation (MT) is ambiguity, which can in some cases be resolved by accompanying context such as images. However, recent work in multimodal MT (MMT) has shown that obtaining improvements from images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Past works on multimodal machine translation (MMT) elevate bilingual setup by incorporating additional aligned vision information. However, an image-must requirement of the multimodal dataset largely hinders MMT's development -- namely that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ru Peng , Yawen Zeng , Junbo Zhao

Unsupervised machine translation (MT) has recently achieved impressive results with monolingual corpora only. However, it is still challenging to associate source-target sentences in the latent space. As people speak different languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Po-Yao Huang , Junjie Hu , Xiaojun Chang , Alexander Hauptmann

Simultaneous translation involves translating a sentence before the speaker's utterance is completed in order to realize real-time understanding in multiple languages. This task is significantly more challenging than the general full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Aizhan Imankulova , Masahiro Kaneko , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

This work presents a comparative evaluation of machine translation systems applied to images containing textual information, a task that lies at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. The study compares three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Blai Puchol , Sergio Gómez González , Miguel Domingo , Francisco Casacuberta

This paper presents an in-depth study of multimodal machine translation (MMT), examining the prevailing understanding that MMT systems exhibit decreased sensitivity to visual information when text inputs are complete. Instead, we attribute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yuxin Zuo , Bei Li , Chuanhao Lv , Tong Zheng , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) is a challenging task that seeks to improve translation quality by incorporating visual information. However, recent studies have indicated that the visual information provided by existing MMT datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xinyu Ma , Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong , Jun Rao , Bei Li , Liang Ding , Lidia S. Chao , Dacheng Tao , Min Zhang

Large language models such as BERT and the GPT series started a paradigm shift that calls for building general-purpose models via pre-training on large datasets, followed by fine-tuning on task-specific datasets. There is now a plethora of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jeremy Gwinnup , Kevin Duh

Image-to-image translation (I2I) aims to transfer images from a source domain to a target domain while preserving the content representations. I2I has drawn increasing attention and made tremendous progress in recent years because of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yingxue Pang , Jianxin Lin , Tao Qin , Zhibo Chen

Interactive machine learning (IML) allows users to build their custom machine learning models without expert knowledge. While most existing IML systems are designed with classification algorithms, they sometimes oversimplify the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wataru Kawabe , Yusuke Sugano