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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, seemingly plausible outputs often suffer from poor visual and temporal grounding: a model may fabricate object existence, assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yihao Quan , Zeru Shi , Jinman Zhao , Ruixiang Tang

Assessing the quality of outputs generated by generative models, such as large language models and vision language models, presents notable challenges. Traditional methods for evaluation typically rely on either human assessments, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yaswanth Narsupalli , Abhranil Chandra , Sreevatsa Muppirala , Manish Gupta , Pawan Goyal

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for Large Language Models (LLMs) hold promise in knowledge-intensive tasks but face limitations in complex multi-step reasoning. While recent methods have integrated RAG with chain-of-thought…

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Scene Graph Generation (SGG) is a task that encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. SGG shows significant promise as a foundational component for downstream tasks, such as reasoning for embodied agents.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maëlic Neau , Paulo E. Santos , Anne-Gwenn Bosser , Cédric Buche , Akihiro Sugimoto

Unified video models exhibit strong capabilities in understanding and generation, yet they struggle with reason-informed visual editing even when equipped with powerful internal vision-language models (VLMs). We attribute this gap to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyu Liu , Hangjie Yuan , Yujie Wei , Jiazheng Xing , Yujin Han , Jiahao Pan , Yanbiao Ma , Chi-Min Chan , Kang Zhao , Shiwei Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

We propose a supervised contrastive learning framework for video representation learning that leverages temporally global context. We introduce a video to image aggregation strategy that spatially arranges multiple frames from each video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shaif Chowdhury , Mushfika Rahman , Greg Hamerly

Video diffusion models are able to generate high-quality videos by learning strong spatial-temporal priors on large-scale datasets. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether such priors derived from a generative process are suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zejia Weng , Xitong Yang , Zhen Xing , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent advancements in video diffusion models based on Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved remarkable success in generating temporally coherent videos. Yet, a fundamental question persists: how do these models internally establish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jisu Nam , Soowon Son , Dahyun Chung , Jiyoung Kim , Siyoon Jin , Junhwa Hur , Seungryong Kim

Modern-day autonomous robots need high-level map representations to perform sophisticated tasks. Recently, 3D scene graphs (3DSGs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional grid maps, blending efficient memory use and rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Phuoc Nguyen , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to impressive image generation capabilities, but aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. Reward-based fine-tuning using models trained on human feedback improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dmitrii Sorokin , Maksim Nakhodnov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Recent advances in video super-resolution have shown that convolutional neural networks combined with motion compensation are able to merge information from multiple low-resolution (LR) frames to generate high-quality images. Current…

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Recent video-text foundation models have demonstrated strong performance on a wide variety of downstream video understanding tasks. Can these video-text models genuinely understand the contents of natural videos? Standard video-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Wufei Ma , Kai Li , Zhongshi Jiang , Moustafa Meshry , Qihao Liu , Huiyu Wang , Christian Häne , Alan Yuille

We introduce RewardFlow, an inversion-free framework that steers pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models at inference time through multi-reward Langevin dynamics. RewardFlow unifies complementary differentiable rewards for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Onkar Susladkar , Dong-Hwan Jang , Tushar Prakash , Adheesh Juvekar , Vedant Shah , Ayush Barik , Nabeel Bashir , Muntasir Wahed , Ritish Shrirao , Ismini Lourentzou

With the continued advancement of text-to-image (T2I) generation, producing high-quality images is becoming increasingly attainable; consequently, user demands are shifting toward images that better satisfy their specific requirements. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiaying Qian , Ziheng Jia , Qian Zhang , Zicheng Zhang , Jiayi Guo , Junqi Zhang , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

With the advance of diffusion models, today's video generation has achieved impressive quality. But generating temporal consistent long videos is still challenging. A majority of video diffusion models (VDMs) generate long videos in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kaifeng Gao , Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Chunping Wang , Jun Xiao

As Text-to-Video (T2V) generation models continue to evolve, the complexity of video evaluation necessitates a fine-grained assessment across various axes. To address this, recent works have focused on developing Multidimensional Video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Muyao Wang , Zeke Xie , Hideki Nakayama

Monocular depth estimation has seen significant advances through discriminative approaches, yet their performance remains constrained by the limitations of training datasets. While generative approaches have addressed this challenge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Bulat Gabdullin , Nina Konovalova , Nikolay Patakin , Dmitry Senushkin , Anton Konushin

Vision-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VisRAG) leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to jointly retrieve relevant visual documents and generate grounded answers based on multimodal evidence. However, existing VisRAG models degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 I-Hsiang Chen , Yu-Wei Liu , Tse-Yu Wu , Yu-Chien Chiang , Jen-Chien Yang , Wei-Ting Chen

Video diffusion models provide powerful real-world simulators for embodied AI but remain limited in controllability for robotic manipulation. Recent works on trajectory-conditioned video generation address this gap but often rely on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation via reinforcement learning (RL) have benefited from reward models that assess semantic alignment and visual quality. However, most existing reward models pay limited attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sashuai Zhou , Qiang Zhou , Junpeng Ma , Yue Cao , Ruofan Hu , Ziang Zhang , Xiaoda Yang , Zhibin Wang , Jun Song , Cheng Yu , Bo Zheng , Zhou Zhao