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Despite their success, current training pipelines for reasoning VLMs focus on a limited range of tasks, such as mathematical and logical reasoning. As a result, these models face difficulties in generalizing their reasoning capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuheng Zha , Kun Zhou , Yujia Wu , Yushu Wang , Jie Feng , Zhi Xu , Shibo Hao , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Real-time multi-view point cloud reconstruction is a core problem in 3D vision and immersive perception, with wide applications in VR, AR, robotic navigation, digital twins, and computer interaction. Despite advances in multi-camera systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chentian Sun

Recent unified 3D generation models have made remarkable progress in producing high-quality 3D assets from a single image. Notably, layout-aware approaches such as SAM3D can reconstruct multiple objects while preserving their spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Baicheng Li , Dong Wu , Jun Li , Shunkai Zhou , Zecui Zeng , Lusong Li , Hongbin Zha

Recent advances in large language models elicit reasoning in a chain-of-thought that allows models to decompose problems in a human-like fashion. Though this paradigm improves multi-step reasoning ability in language models, it is limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Daniel Rose , Vaishnavi Himakunthala , Andy Ouyang , Ryan He , Alex Mei , Yujie Lu , Michael Saxon , Chinmay Sonar , Diba Mirza , William Yang Wang

Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jifeng Shen , Yifei Chen , Yue Liu , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Wankou Yang

Recently several fusion and switching based approaches have been presented to solve the problem of Visual Place Recognition. In spite of these systems demonstrating significant boost in VPR performance they each have their own set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Maria Waheed , Sania Waheed , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

When faced with complex problems, we tend to engage in slower, more deliberate thinking. In contrast, for simple questions we give quick, intuitive responses. This dual-system thinking approach allows us to allocate cognitive resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chenyu Lin , Cheng Chi , Jinlin Wu , Sharon Li , Kaiyang Zhou

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable success in single-image tasks. However, real-world scenarios often involve intricate multi-image inputs, leading to a notable performance decline as models struggle to disentangle critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Juntian Zhang , Chuanqi cheng , Yuhan Liu , Wei Liu , Jian Luan , Rui Yan

The long-standing goal of multimodal AI is to build unified models in which visual understanding and visual generation mutually enhance one another. Despite recent works such as BAGEL, BLIP3o achieves remarkable progress; In practice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yujun Tong , Dongliang Chang , Zijin Yin , Xintong Liu , Yuanchen Fang , Zhanyu Ma

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that integrate visual and textual reasoning leverage chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to tackle complex visual tasks, yet continue to exhibit visual hallucinations and an over-reliance on textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jing Bi , Guangyu Sun , Ali Vosoughi , Chen Chen , Chenliang Xu

Spatial intelligence is a critical frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), empowering them to comprehend the physical world. Drawing inspiration from human perception mechanisms, prior studies attempt to construct a spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yibin Huang , Wang Xu , Wanyue Zhang , Helu Zhi , Jingjing Huang , Yangbin Xu , Yangang Sun , Conghui Zhu , Tiejun Zhao

Vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with visual perception tasks such as spatial understanding and viewpoint recognition. One plausible contributing factor is that natural image datasets provide limited supervision for low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Guanyu Zhou , Yida Yin , Wenhao Chai , Shengbang Tong , Xingyu Fu , Zhuang Liu

Multi-image spatial reasoning remains challenging for current multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While single-view perception is inherently 2D, reasoning over multiple views requires building a coherent scene understanding across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xuejun Zhang , Aditi Tiwari , Zhenhailong Wang , Heng Ji

Recent vision-language (VL) models are powerful, but can they reliably distinguish "right" from "left"? We curate three new corpora to quantify model comprehension of such basic spatial relations. These tests isolate spatial reasoning more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amita Kamath , Jack Hessel , Kai-Wei Chang

Recent unified models integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a single framework. However, an "understanding-generation gap" persists, where models can capture user intent but often fail to translate this semantic knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qingyang Liu , Bingjie Gao , Canmiao Fu , Zhipeng Huang , Chen Li , Feng Wang , Shuochen Chang , Shaobo Wang , Yali Wang , Keming Ye , Jiangtong Li , Li Niu

Multimodal reasoning has become a cornerstone of modern AI research. Standardized exam questions offer a uniquely rigorous testbed for such reasoning, providing structured visual contexts and verifiable answers. While recent progress has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Egemen Sert , Şeyda Ertekin

Cross view feature fusion is the key to address the occlusion problem in human pose estimation. The current fusion methods need to train a separate model for every pair of cameras making them difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Rongchang Xie , Chunyu Wang , Yizhou Wang

Visual reasoning may require models to interpret images and videos and respond to implicit text queries across diverse output formats, from pixel-level segmentation masks to natural language descriptions. Existing approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Mathias Unberath

Recent unified image generation models have achieved remarkable success by employing MLLMs for semantic understanding and diffusion backbones for image generation. However, these models remain fundamentally limited in spatially-aware tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Haiyi Qiu , Kaihang Pan , Jiacheng Li , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui