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Vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress across a wide range of visual question answering benchmarks, spanning visual reasoning, document understanding, and multimodal dialogue. These improvements are evident in a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dhruba Ghosh , Yuhui Zhang , Ludwig Schmidt

Multi-task visual grounding involves the simultaneous execution of localization and segmentation in images based on textual expressions. The majority of advanced methods predominantly focus on transformer-based multimodal fusion, aiming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ming Dai , Jian Li , Jiedong Zhuang , Xian Zhang , Wankou Yang

We study the problem of object detection over scanned images of scientific documents. We consider images that contain objects of varying aspect ratios and sizes and range from coarse elements such as tables and figures to fine elements such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Ankur Goswami , Joshua McGrath , Shanan Peters , Theodoros Rekatsinas

Text-motion retrieval aims to learn a semantically aligned latent space between natural language descriptions and 3D human motion skeleton sequences, enabling bidirectional search across the two modalities. Most existing methods use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yao Zhang , Zhuchenyang Liu , Yanlan He , Thomas Ploetz , Yu Xiao

Fingerspelling in sign language has been the means of communicating technical terms and proper nouns when they do not have dedicated sign language gestures. Automatic recognition of fingerspelling can help resolve communication barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Kamala Gajurel , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

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

Fine-grained image-caption alignment is crucial for vision-language models (VLMs), especially in socially critical contexts such as identifying real-world risk scenarios or distinguishing cultural proxies, where correct interpretation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sagarika Banerjee , Tangatar Madi , Advait Swaminathan , Nguyen Dao Minh Anh , Shivank Garg , Kevin Zhu , Vasu Sharma

Achieving deep alignment between vision and language remains a central challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). These models often fail to fully leverage visual input, defaulting to strong language priors. Our approach first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Aarti Ghatkesar , Ganesh Venkatesh

The advent of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal tasks, enabling more sophisticated and accurate reasoning across various applications, including image and video captioning, visual question answering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hang Hua , Qing Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jing Shi , Zhifei Zhang , Yilin Wang , Jianming Zhang , Jiebo Luo

Most existing methods in vision language pre-training rely on object-centric features extracted through object detection and make fine-grained alignments between the extracted features and texts. It is challenging for these methods to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yan Zeng , Xinsong Zhang , Hang Li

Audio-visual learning helps to comprehensively understand the world by fusing practical information from multiple modalities. However, recent studies show that the imbalanced optimization of uni-modal encoders in a joint-learning model is a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ruize Xu , Ruoxuan Feng , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Di Hu

As CLIP's global alignment limits its ability to capture fine-grained details, recent efforts have focused on enhancing its region-text alignment. However, current remote sensing (RS)-specific CLIP variants still inherit this limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Zhenshi Li , Weikang Yu , Dilxat Muhtar , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Multimodal semantic understanding often has to deal with uncertainty, which means the obtained messages tend to refer to multiple targets. Such uncertainty is problematic for our interpretation, including inter- and intra-modal uncertainty.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yatai Ji , Junjie Wang , Yuan Gong , Lin Zhang , Yanru Zhu , Hongfa Wang , Jiaxing Zhang , Tetsuya Sakai , Yujiu Yang

Change detection aims to identify remote sense object changes by analyzing data between bitemporal image pairs. Due to the large temporal and spatial span of data collection in change detection image pairs, there are often a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Qiangang Du , Jinlong Peng , Changan Wang , Xu Chen , Qingdong He , Wenbing Zhu , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang

When dealing with the task of fine-grained scene image classification, most previous works lay much emphasis on global visual features when doing multi-modal feature fusion. In other words, models are deliberately designed based on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yiqun Wang , Zhao Zhou , Xiangcheng Du , Xingjiao Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

Template matching is a fundamental task in computer vision and has been studied for decades. It plays an essential role in manufacturing industry for estimating the poses of different parts, facilitating downstream tasks such as robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Zhirui Gao , Renjiao Yi , Zheng Qin , Yunfan Ye , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

Few-shot, fine-grained classification in computer vision poses significant challenges due to the need to differentiate subtle class distinctions with limited data. This paper presents a novel method that enhances the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Eric Brouwer , Jan Erik van Woerden , Gertjan Burghouts , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Marco Zullich

Nowadays, as cameras are rapidly adopted in our daily routine, images of documents are becoming both abundant and prevalent. Unlike natural images that capture physical objects, document-images contain a significant amount of text with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Or Perel , Oron Anschel , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Shai Mazor , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Recognizing objects from subcategories with very subtle differences remains a challenging task due to the large intra-class and small inter-class variation. Recent work tackles this problem in a weakly-supervised manner: object parts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Wei Luo , Xitong Yang , Xianjie Mo , Yuheng Lu , Larry S. Davis , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

Video-text retrieval has seen significant advancements, yet the ability of models to discern subtle differences in captions still requires verification. In this paper, we introduce a new approach for fine-grained evaluation. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Aozhu Chen , Hazel Doughty , Xirong Li , Cees G. M. Snoek