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Utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for robotic manipulation represents a novel paradigm, aiming to enhance the model's ability to generalize to new objects and instructions. However, due to variations in camera specifications and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Fanfan Liu , Feng Yan , Liming Zheng , Chengjian Feng , Yiyang Huang , Lin Ma

In this paper, we propose a single UniFied transfOrmer (UFO), which is capable of processing either unimodal inputs (e.g., image or language) or multimodal inputs (e.g., the concatenation of the image and the question), for vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Zhe Gan , Zhengyuan Yang , Xiyang Dai , Zicheng Liu , Yumao Lu , Lijuan Wang

Unifying visual understanding and generation within a single multimodal framework remains a significant challenge, as the two inherently heterogeneous tasks require representations at different levels of granularity. Current approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Wentao Liu , Wei Li , Chen Change Loy

Joint image-text embedding is the bedrock for most Vision-and-Language (V+L) tasks, where multimodality inputs are simultaneously processed for joint visual and textual understanding. In this paper, we introduce UNITER, a UNiversal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yen-Chun Chen , Linjie Li , Licheng Yu , Ahmed El Kholy , Faisal Ahmed , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Jingjing Liu

Visual tokenization remains a core challenge in unifying visual understanding and generation within the autoregressive paradigm. Existing methods typically employ tokenizers in discrete latent spaces to align with the tokens from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziyuan Huang , DanDan Zheng , Cheng Zou , Rui Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Kaixiang Ji , Weilong Chai , Jianxin Sun , Libin Wang , Yongjie Lv , Taozhi Huang , Jiajia Liu , Qingpei Guo , Ming Yang , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

Although a video is effectively a sequence of images, visual perception systems typically model images and videos separately, thus failing to exploit the correlation and the synergy provided by these two media. While a few prior research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Yufei Wang , Du Tran , Lorenzo Torresani

Multi-reference image generation aims to synthesize images from textual instructions while faithfully preserving subject identities from multiple reference images. Existing VLM-enhanced diffusion models commonly rely on decoupled visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yiyan Xu , Qiulin Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yunyao Mao , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Fuli Feng

Concept unlearning has emerged as a promising direction for reducing the risks of harmful content generation in text-to-image diffusion models by selectively erasing undesirable concepts from a model's parameters. Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Duc Hao Pham , Van Duy Truong , Duy Khanh Dinh , Tien Cuong Nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Tuan Anh Bui

Generating or editing images directly from Neural signals has immense potential at the intersection of neuroscience, vision, and Brain-computer interaction. In this paper, We present Uni-Neur2Img, a unified framework for neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiyue Bai , Ronghao Yu , Jia Xiu , Pengfei Zhou , Jie Xia , Peng Ji

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

The integration of visual understanding and generation into unified multimodal models represents a significant stride toward general-purpose AI. However, a fundamental question remains unanswered by existing benchmarks: does this…

In this paper, we explore the possibility of building a unified foundation model that can be adapted to both vision-only and text-only tasks. Starting from BERT and ViT, we design a unified transformer consisting of modality-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Qing Li , Boqing Gong , Yin Cui , Dan Kondratyuk , Xianzhi Du , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Matthew Brown

Medical diagnostic applications require models that can process multimodal medical inputs (images, patient histories, lab results) and generate diverse outputs including both textual reports and visual content (annotations, segmentation…

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to jointly perform multimodal understanding and generation within a single framework. We present TUNA, a native UMM that builds a unified continuous visual representation by cascading a VAE encoder with…

We present MMCORE, a unified framework designed for multimodal image generation and editing. MMCORE leverages a pre-trained Vision-Language Model (VLM) to predict semantic visual embeddings via learnable query tokens, which subsequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zijie Li , Yichun Shi , Jingxiang Sun , Ye Wang , Yixuan Huang , Zhiyao Guo , Xiaochen Lian , Peihao Zhu , Yu Tian , Zhonghua Zhai , Peng Wang

Unified vision large language models (VLLMs) have recently achieved impressive advancements in both multimodal understanding and generation, powering applications such as visual question answering and text-guided image synthesis. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Pengyu Wang , Shaojun Zhou , Chenkun Tan , Xinghao Wang , Wei Huang , Zhen Ye , Zhaowei Li , Botian Jiang , Dong Zhang , Xipeng Qiu

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), tremendous strides have been made in the field of multimodal understanding. However, existing advanced algorithms are limited to effectively utilizing the immense representation capabilities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hao Feng , Zijian Wang , Jingqun Tang , Jinghui Lu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Can Huang

Large-scale joint training of multimodal models, e.g., CLIP, have demonstrated great performance in many vision-language tasks. However, image-text pairs for pre-training are restricted to the intersection of images and texts, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yanan Sun , Zihan Zhong , Qi Fan , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Currently, enhancing Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) with image understanding, generation, and editing capabilities mainly relies on mixed multi-task training. Due to inherent task conflicts, such strategy requires complex multi-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Dian Zheng , Manyuan Zhang , Hongyu Li , Hongbo Liu , Kai Zou , Kaituo Feng , Hongsheng Li

Existing diffusion-based 3D scene generation methods primarily operate in 2D image/video latent spaces, which makes maintaining cross-view appearance and geometric consistency inherently challenging. To bridge this gap, we present OneWorld,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sensen Gao , Zhaoqing Wang , Qihang Cao , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Jiawang Bian