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This paper explores improvements to the masked image modeling (MIM) paradigm. The MIM paradigm enables the model to learn the main object features of the image by masking the input image and predicting the masked part by the unmasked part.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jiawei Mao , Xuesong Yin , Yuanqi Chang , Honggu Zhou

The development of language models have moved from encoder-decoder to decoder-only designs. In addition, we observe that the two most popular multimodal tasks, the generative and contrastive tasks, are nontrivial to accommodate in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Weicheng Kuo , AJ Piergiovanni , Dahun Kim , Xiyang Luo , Ben Caine , Wei Li , Abhijit Ogale , Luowei Zhou , Andrew Dai , Zhifeng Chen , Claire Cui , Anelia Angelova

Self-supervised learning on graphs can be bifurcated into contrastive and generative methods. Contrastive methods, also known as graph contrastive learning (GCL), have dominated graph self-supervised learning in the past few years, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Liang Wang , Xiang Tao , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang 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

At the core of both successful generative and self-supervised representation learning models there is a reconstruction objective that incorporates some form of image corruption. Diffusion models implement this approach through a scheduled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Philippe Hansen-Estruch , Sriram Vishwanath , Amy Zhang , Manan Tomar

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has achieved impressive performance on various cross-modal downstream tasks. However, most existing methods can only learn from aligned image-caption data and rely heavily on expensive regional features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Wei Li , Can Gao , Guocheng Niu , Xinyan Xiao , Hao Liu , Jiachen Liu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image generation models have led to a surge in subject-driven text-to-image generation, which aims to produce customized images that align with textual descriptions while preserving the identity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kewen Chen , Xiaobin Hu , Wenqi Ren

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the photorealistic generation of images from text prompts. Despite the great progress, existing models still struggle to generate compositional multi-concept images naturally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Hazarapet Tunanyan , Dejia Xu , Shant Navasardyan , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

The Image Difference Captioning (IDC) task aims to describe the visual differences between two similar images with natural language. The major challenges of this task lie in two aspects: 1) fine-grained visual differences that require…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Linli Yao , Weiying Wang , Qin Jin

For many computer vision applications such as image captioning, visual question answering, and person search, learning discriminative feature representations at both image and text level is an essential yet challenging problem. Its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Xiang Xu , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

A range of video modeling tasks, from optical flow to multiple object tracking, share the same fundamental challenge: establishing space-time correspondence. Yet, approaches that dominate each space differ. We take a step towards bridging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Zhangxing Bian , Allan Jabri , Alexei A. Efros , Andrew Owens

One of the major challenges in training deep neural networks for text-to-image generation is the significant linguistic discrepancy between ground-truth captions of each image in most popular datasets. The large difference in the choice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mahmoud Ahmed , Omer Moussa , Ismail Shaheen , Mohamed Abdelfattah , Amr Abdalla , Marwan Eid , Hesham Eraqi , Mohamed Moustafa

We introduce Lumina-Image 2.0, an advanced text-to-image generation framework that achieves significant progress compared to previous work, Lumina-Next. Lumina-Image 2.0 is built upon two key principles: (1) Unification - it adopts a…

Despite the impressive text-to-image (T2I) synthesis capabilities of diffusion models, they often struggle to understand compositional relationships between objects and attributes, especially in complex settings. Existing solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Evans Xu Han , Linghao Jin , Xiaofeng Liu , Paul Pu Liang

Text-to-image synthesis (T2I) aims to generate photo-realistic images which are semantically consistent with the text descriptions. Existing methods are usually built upon conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) and initialize an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kai Hu , Wentong Liao , Michael Ying Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn

Unifying diverse image generation tasks within a single framework remains a fundamental challenge in visual generation. While large language models (LLMs) achieve unification through task-agnostic data and generation, existing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yijing Lin , Mengqi Huang , Shuhan Zhuang , Zhendong Mao

How humans can effectively and efficiently acquire images has always been a perennial question. A classic solution is text-to-image retrieval from an existing database; however, the limited database typically lacks creativity. By contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Leigang Qu , Haochuan Li , Tan Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

In recent times, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been trained under two predominant paradigms. Generative training has enabled Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to tackle various complex tasks, yet issues such as hallucinations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wei Chow , Juncheng Li , Qifan Yu , Kaihang Pan , Hao Fei , Zhiqi Ge , Shuai Yang , Siliang Tang , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun

Medical image segmentation, or computing voxelwise semantic masks, is a fundamental yet challenging task to compute a voxel-level semantic mask. To increase the ability of encoder-decoder neural networks to perform this task across large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ho Hin Lee , Yucheng Tang , Qi Yang , Xin Yu , Shunxing Bao , Leon Y. Cai , Lucas W. Remedios , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo