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Generative AI based on foundation models provides a first glimpse into the world represented by machines trained on vast amounts of multimodal data ingested by these models during training. If we consider the resulting models as knowledge…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zilong Liu , Krzysztof Janowicz , Kitty Currier , Meilin Shi

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

Multimodal machine learning is a vibrant multi-disciplinary research field that aims to design computer agents with intelligent capabilities such as understanding, reasoning, and learning through integrating multiple communicative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal foundation models (MFMs), such as GPT-4o, have recently made remarkable progress. However, their detailed visual understanding beyond question answering remains unclear. In this paper, we benchmark popular MFMs (GPT-4o, o4-mini,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Rahul Ramachandran , Ali Garjani , Roman Bachmann , Andrei Atanov , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Amir Zamir

Foundation models (FMs) are catalyzing a transformative shift in materials science (MatSci) by enabling scalable, general-purpose, and multimodal AI systems for scientific discovery. Unlike traditional machine learning models, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Minh-Hao Van , Prateek Verma , Chen Zhao , Xintao Wu

Recent studies have indicated that foundation models, such as BERT and GPT, excel in adapting to a variety of downstream tasks. This adaptability has established them as the dominant force in building artificial intelligence (AI) systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Weikai Yang , Mengchen Liu , Zheng Wang , Shixia Liu

This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in multimodal alignment and fusion within the field of machine learning, driven by the increasing availability and diversity of data modalities such as text, images, audio,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Songtao Li , Hao Tang

As AI workloads increase in scope, generalization capability becomes challenging for small task-specific models and their demand for large amounts of labeled training samples increases. On the contrary, Foundation Models (FMs) are trained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Aristeidis Tsaris , Philipe Ambrozio Dias , Abhishek Potnis , Junqi Yin , Feiyi Wang , Dalton Lunga

The rapid emergence of foundation models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), has introduced a transformative paradigm in robotics. These models offer powerful capabilities in semantic understanding,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Muhammad Tayyab Khan , Ammar Waheed

The emergence of multi-modal foundation models has markedly transformed the technology for autonomous driving, shifting away from conventional and mostly hand-crafted design choices towards unified, foundation-model-based approaches,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kemal Oksuz , Alexandru Buburuzan , Anthony Knittel , Yuhan Yao , Puneet K. Dokania

Visual impairment represents a major global health challenge, with multimodal imaging providing complementary information that is essential for accurate ophthalmic diagnosis. This comprehensive survey systematically reviews the latest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Xiaoling Luo , Ruli Zheng , Qiaojian Zheng , Zibo Du , Shuo Yang , Meidan Ding , Qihao Xu , Chengliang Liu , Linlin Shen

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of spatiotemporal foundation models in different scientific disciplines. While promising, these models are often domain-specific and are only assessed within the particular applications for…

The 3D point cloud representation plays a crucial role in preserving the geometric fidelity of the physical world, enabling more accurate complex 3D environments. While humans naturally comprehend the intricate relationships between objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Vishal Thengane , Xiatian Zhu , Salim Bouzerdoum , Son Lam Phung , Yunpeng Li

Seismic geobody interpretation is crucial for structural geology studies and various engineering applications. Existing deep learning methods show promise but lack support for multi-modal inputs and struggle to generalize to different…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Hang Gao , Xinming Wu , Luming Liang , Hanlin Sheng , Xu Si , Gao Hui , Yaxing Li

Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly revolutionized the field of clinical diagnosis and treatment, offering novel approaches to improve diagnostic precision and treatment efficacy across diverse clinical domains, thus…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Kai Sun , Siyan Xue , Fuchun Sun , Haoran Sun , Yu Luo , Ling Wang , Siyuan Wang , Na Guo , Lei Liu , Tian Zhao , Xinzhou Wang , Lei Yang , Shuo Jin , Jun Yan , Jiahong Dong

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence, setting new benchmarks in performance and enabling transformative capabilities across a wide range of vision and language tasks. However, despite the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Adam Goodge , Wee Siong Ng , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly foundation models (FMs), have revolutionized medical image analysis, demonstrating strong zero- and few-shot performance across diverse medical imaging tasks, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Praveenbalaji Rajendran , Mojtaba Safari , Wenfeng He , Mingzhe Hu , Shansong Wang , Jun Zhou , Xiaofeng Yang

Connecting text and visual modalities plays an essential role in generative intelligence. For this reason, inspired by the success of large language models, significant research efforts are being devoted to the development of Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Davide Caffagni , Federico Cocchi , Luca Barsellotti , Nicholas Moratelli , Sara Sarto , Lorenzo Baraldi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Spatial grounding, the process of associating natural language expressions with corresponding image regions, has rapidly advanced due to the introduction of transformer-based models, significantly enhancing multimodal representation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ijazul Haq , Muhammad Saqib , Yingjie Zhang