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Due to the resource-intensive nature of training vision-language models on expansive video data, a majority of studies have centered on adapting pre-trained image-language models to the video domain. Dominant pipelines propose to tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Tongjia Chen , Hongshan Yu , Zhengeng Yang , Zechuan Li , Wei Sun , Chen Chen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built on the assumption of treating image patches as ``visual tokens" and learn patch-to-patch attention. The patch embedding based tokenizer has a semantic gap with respect to its counterpart, the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ryan Grainger , Thomas Paniagua , Xi Song , Naresh Cuntoor , Mun Wai Lee , Tianfu Wu

Self-supervised visual foundation models produce powerful embeddings that achieve remarkable performance on a wide range of downstream tasks. However, unlike vision-language models such as CLIP, self-supervised visual features are not…

Tokenization is a fundamental technique in the generative modeling of various modalities. In particular, it plays a critical role in autoregressive (AR) models, which have recently emerged as a compelling option for 3D generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Niladri Shekhar Dutt , Zifan Shi , Paul Guerrero , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Duygu Ceylan , Niloy J. Mitra , Xuelin Chen

Recent advances in Video-to-Audio (V2A) generation have achieved impressive perceptual quality and temporal synchronization, yet most models remain appearance-driven, capturing visual-acoustic correlations without considering the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Oh Hyun-Bin , Yuhta Takida , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Tae-Hyun Oh , Yuki Mitsufuji

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks, from logical reasoning to visual understanding. This opens the door to richer interaction with the world, for example robotic control. However, VLMs…

Precisely evaluating semantic alignment between text prompts and generated videos remains a challenge in Text-to-Video (T2V) Generation. Existing text-to-video alignment metrics like CLIPScore only generate coarse-grained scores without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kaisi Guan , Zhengfeng Lai , Yuchong Sun , Peng Zhang , Wei Liu , Kieran Liu , Meng Cao , Ruihua Song

As a foundational task in human-centric cross-modal intelligence, motion-language retrieval aims to bridge the semantic gap between natural language and human motion, enabling intuitive motion analysis, yet existing approaches predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hanmo Chen , Guangtao Lyu , Chenghao Xu , Jiexi Yan , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng

Tokenizer, serving as a translator to map the intricate visual data into a compact latent space, lies at the core of visual generative models. Based on the finding that existing tokenizers are tailored to image or video inputs, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Junke Wang , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Binyue Peng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video understanding relies on perceiving the global content and modeling its internal connections (e.g., causality, movement, and spatio-temporal correspondence). To learn these interactions, we apply a mask-then-predict pre-training task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hao Tan , Jie Lei , Thomas Wolf , Mohit Bansal

Existing vision tokenization isolates the optimization of vision tokenizers from downstream training, implicitly assuming the visual tokens can generalize well across various tasks, e.g., image generation and visual question answering. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Wenxuan Wang , Fan Zhang , Yufeng Cui , Haiwen Diao , Zhuoyan Luo , Huchuan Lu , Jing Liu , Xinlong Wang

Unified Multimodal Models struggle to bridge the fundamental gap between the abstract representations needed for visual understanding and the detailed primitives required for generation. Existing approaches typically compromise by employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xuerui Qiu , Yutao Cui , Guozhen Zhang , Junzhe Li , JiaKui Hu , Xiao Zhang , Yang Li , Songtao Liu , Miles Yang , Yu Shi , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo

Recent developments of vision large language models (LLMs) have seen remarkable progress, yet still encounter challenges towards multimodal generalists, such as coarse-grained instance-level understanding, lack of unified support for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hao Fei , Shengqiong Wu , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua , Shuicheng Yan

Vision Transformer (ViT) autoencoders have emerged as compelling tokenizers for images, offering improved reconstruction over convolutional tokenizers. However, existing ViT tokenizers cannot explore this landscape as performance degrades…

Recent progress in vision-language pretraining has enabled significant improvements to many downstream computer vision applications, such as classification, retrieval, segmentation and depth prediction. However, a fundamental capability…

Autoregressive modeling has driven major advances in multimodal AI, yet its application to medical imaging remains constrained by the absence of a unified image tokenizer that simultaneously preserves fine-grained anatomical structures and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Chenglong Ma , Yuanfeng Ji , Jin Ye , Zilong Li , Chenhui Wang , Junzhi Ning , Wei Li , Lihao Liu , Qiushan Guo , Tianbin Li , Junjun He , Hongming Shan

Video-text retrieval is an important yet challenging task in vision-language understanding, which aims to learn a joint embedding space where related video and text instances are close to each other. Most current works simply measure the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Peng Wu , Xiangteng He , Mingqian Tang , Yiliang Lv , Jing Liu

Diffusion models are just at a tipping point for image super-resolution task. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to capitalize on diffusion models for video super-resolution which necessitates not only the preservation of visual appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhikai Chen , Fuchen Long , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Wengang Zhou , Jiebo Luo , Tao Mei

We present CLIP2Video network to transfer the image-language pre-training model to video-text retrieval in an end-to-end manner. Leading approaches in the domain of video-and-language learning try to distill the spatio-temporal video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Han Fang , Pengfei Xiong , Luhui Xu , Yu Chen

Since visual perception can give rich information beyond text descriptions for world understanding, there has been increasing interest in leveraging visual grounding for language learning. Recently, vokenization (Tan and Bansal, 2020) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zineng Tang , Jaemin Cho , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal