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Discovering the semantics of multimodal utterances is essential for understanding human language and enhancing human-machine interactions. Existing methods manifest limitations in leveraging nonverbal information for discerning complex…

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Modern neural language models (LMs) are powerful tools for modeling human sentence production and comprehension, and their internal representations are remarkably well-aligned with representations of language in the human brain. But to…

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Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to obtain high-level semantic representation on low-level visual features without manual annotations. Most existing methods are bottom-up approaches that try to group pixels into regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhaoyuan Yin , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Xianzhe Xu , Hanling Zhang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Existing research for image text retrieval mainly relies on sentence-level supervision to distinguish matched and mismatched sentences for a query image. However, semantic mismatch between an image and sentences usually happens in finer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhihao Fan , Zhongyu Wei , Zejun Li , Siyuan Wang , Haijun Shan , Xuanjing Huang , Jianqing Fan

Unifying multimodal understanding and generation has shown impressive capabilities in cutting-edge proprietary systems. However, evaluations of unified multimodal models (UMMs) remain decoupled, assessing their understanding and generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Kai Liu , Leyang Chen , Wenbo Li , Zhikai Chen , Zhixin Wang , Renjing Pei , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

Despite the exceptional reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their adaptation into universal embedding models is significantly impeded by task conflict. To address this, we propose TSEmbed, a universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yebo Wu , Feng Liu , Ziwei Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Changwang Zhang , Jun Wang , Li Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have witnessed great successes in semantic segmentation, which requires a large number of labeled data for training. We present a novel learning framework called Uncertainty guided Cross-head Co-training (UCC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jiashuo Fan , Bin Gao , Huan Jin , Lihui Jiang

Unified remote sensing multimodal models exhibit a pronounced spatial reversal curse: Although they can accurately recognize and describe object locations in images, they often fail to faithfully execute the same spatial relations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weiyu Zhang , Yuan Hu , Yong Li , Yu Liu

In text recognition, self-supervised pre-training emerges as a good solution to reduce dependence on expansive annotated real data. Previous studies primarily focus on local visual representation by leveraging mask image modeling or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zuan Gao , Yuxin Wang , Yadong Qu , Boqiang Zhang , Zixiao Wang , Jianjun Xu , Hongtao Xie

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to discover and localize semantically meaningful categories within image corpora without any form of annotation. To solve this task, algorithms must produce features for every pixel that are both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mark Hamilton , Zhoutong Zhang , Bharath Hariharan , Noah Snavely , William T. Freeman

Multimodal remote sensing data, acquired from diverse sensors, offer a comprehensive and integrated perspective of the Earth's surface. Leveraging multimodal fusion techniques, semantic segmentation enables detailed and accurate analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xianping Ma , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Bo Huang

The advent of Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) signals a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence, moving from passive perception to active, cross-modal generation. Despite their unprecedented ability to synthesize information, a critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jingxuan Wei , Caijun Jia , Xi Bai , Xinglong Xu , Siyuan Li , Linzhuang Sun , Bihui Yu , Conghui He , Lijun Wu , Cheng Tan

Recent large vision-language models (VLMs) remain fundamentally constrained by a persistent dichotomy: understanding and generation are treated as distinct problems, leading to fragmented architectures, cascaded pipelines, and misaligned…

Learning to reliably perceive and understand the scene is an integral enabler for robots to operate in the real-world. This problem is inherently challenging due to the multitude of object types as well as appearance changes caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Abhinav Valada , Rohit Mohan , Wolfram Burgard

Vision-language large models are moving toward the unification of visual understanding and visual generation tasks. However, whether generation can enhance understanding is still under-explored on large data scale. In this work, we analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Fengjiao Chen , Minhao Jing , Weitao Lu , Yan Feng , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) offer remarkable benefits for a variety of vision-language tasks. However, a challenge hindering their application in real-world scenarios, particularly regarding safety, robustness, and reliability, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jiaying Lu , Jinmeng Rao , Kezhen Chen , Xiaoyuan Guo , Yawen Zhang , Baochen Sun , Carl Yang , Jie Yang

Unified multimodal models have recently demonstrated strong generative capabilities, yet whether and when generation improves understanding remains unclear. Existing benchmarks lack a systematic exploration of the specific tasks where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zimo Wen , Boxiu Li , Wanbo Zhang , Junxiang Lei , Xiaoyu Chen , Yijia Fan , Qi Zhang , Yujiang Wang , Lili Qiu , Bo Li , Ziwei Liu , Caihua Shan , Yifan Yang , Yifei Shen

Fine-grained high-resolution remote sensing mapping typically relies on localized visual features, which restricts cross-domain generalizability and often leads to fragmented predictions of large-scale land covers. While global geospatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jienan Lyu , Miao Yang , Jinchen Cai , Yiwen Hu , Guanyi Lu , Junhao Qiu , Runmin Dong

The remarkable success of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has driven advances in multimodal embeddings, yet existing models remain inherently discriminative, limiting their ability to benefit from reasoning-driven generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhibin Lan , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Jinsong Su