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Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

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While unsupervised variational autoencoders (VAE) have become a powerful tool in neuroimage analysis, their application to supervised learning is under-explored. We aim to close this gap by proposing a unified probabilistic model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Nicolas Honnorat , Tuo Leng , Kilian M. Pohl

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) aims to automate the prediction of correct answers for medical images and questions, thereby assisting physicians in reducing repetitive tasks and alleviating their workload. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai

Molecular generative models often assume meaningful latent geometry, but apparent property predictability can reflect sequence-level shortcuts rather than chemical organization. We study this issue in an unsupervised autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zakaria Elabid , Jan Andrzejewski , Bartosz Brzoza , Attila Cangi

This paper presents a unified Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) model. The model is unified in that (1) it can be fine-tuned for either vision-language generation (e.g., image captioning) or understanding (e.g., visual question answering)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Luowei Zhou , Hamid Palangi , Lei Zhang , Houdong Hu , Jason J. Corso , Jianfeng Gao

Background: Building visual encoding models to accurately predict visual responses is a central challenge for current vision-based brain-machine interface techniques. To achieve high prediction accuracy on neural signals, visual encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Chi Zhang , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Li Tong , Guoen Hu , Ruyuan Zhang , Bin Yan

Medical contrastive vision-language pre-training (VLP) has demonstrated significant potential in improving performance on downstream tasks. Traditional approaches typically employ contrastive learning, treating paired image-report samples…

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Imitation learning is an intuitive approach for teaching motion to robotic systems. Although previous studies have proposed various methods to model demonstrated movement primitives, one of the limitations of existing methods is that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Takayuki Osa , Shuhei Ikemoto

Situational awareness applications rely heavily on real-time processing of visual and textual data to provide actionable insights. Vision language models (VLMs) have become essential tools for interpreting complex environments by connecting…

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Medical students and junior surgeons often rely on senior surgeons and specialists to answer their questions when learning surgery. However, experts are often busy with clinical and academic work, and have little time to give guidance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Long Bai , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

Visual Question Answering (VQA) deep-learning systems tend to capture superficial statistical correlations in the training data because of strong language priors and fail to generalize to test data with a significantly different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jialin Wu , Raymond J. Mooney

Deep learning (DL) methods where interpretability is intrinsically considered as part of the model are required to better understand the relationship of clinical and imaging-based attributes with DL outcomes, thus facilitating their use in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Irem Cetin , Maialen Stephens , Oscar Camara , Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis owing to their powerful capability to use flexible self-attention mechanism. However, due to lacking intrinsic inductive bias in modeling visual structural information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Yiyue Hu , Lei Zhang , Nan Mu , Lei Liu

Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose \textit{Value Explicit Pretraining} (VEP), a method that learns generalizable representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kiran Lekkala , Henghui Bao , Sumedh A. Sontakke , Erdem Biyik , Laurent Itti

In current multimodal tasks, models typically freeze the encoder and decoder while adapting intermediate layers to task-specific goals, such as region captioning. Region-level visual understanding presents significant challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yuan Sun , Zhao Zhang , Jorge Ortiz

Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) have been widely applied for learning compact, low-dimensional latent representations of high-dimensional data. When the correlation structure among data points is available, previous work proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Da Tang , Dawen Liang , Nicholas Ruozzi , Tony Jebara

The scarcity of annotated data has sparked significant interest in unsupervised pre-training methods that leverage medical reports as auxiliary signals for medical visual representation learning. However, existing research overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zhe Li , Laurence T. Yang , Bocheng Ren , Xin Nie , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

Visually grounded speech models learn from images paired with spoken captions. By tagging images with soft text labels using a trained visual classifier with a fixed vocabulary, previous work has shown that it is possible to train a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Kayode Olaleye , Herman Kamper

In medical visual question answering (Med-VQA), achieving accurate responses relies on three critical steps: precise perception of medical imaging data, logical reasoning grounded in visual input and textual questions, and coherent answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Songtao Jiang , Yuan Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Yan Zhang , Ruilin Luo , Bohan Lei , Sibo Song , Yang Feng , Jimeng Sun , Jian Wu , Zuozhu Liu

Current work on Visual Question Answering (VQA) explore deterministic approaches conditioned on various types of image and question features. We posit that, in addition to image and question pairs, other modalities are useful for teaching…

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