English
Related papers

Related papers: Enhancing Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models …

200 papers

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-image generation (T2I) and editing (TI2I), whether instantiated as assembled unified frameworks which couple powerful vision-language model (VLM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuxin Song , Wenkai Dong , Shizun Wang , Qi Zhang , Song Xue , Tao Yuan , Hu Yang , Haocheng Feng , Hang Zhou , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang

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

With the evolution of large language models (LLMs), there is growing interest in leveraging their rich semantic understanding to enhance industrial recommendation systems (RecSys). Traditional RecSys relies on ID-based embeddings for user…

Deep learning has shown significant value in medical image registration for motion correction, however, current techniques are either limited by the type and range of motion they can handle, or require iterative inference and/or retraining…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Jian Wang , Razieh Faghihpirayesh , Danny Joca , Polina Golland , Ali Gholipour

Recent advancements in unified image generation models, such as OmniGen, have enabled the handling of diverse image generation and editing tasks within a single framework, accepting multimodal, interleaved texts and images in free form.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chao Zhou , Tianyi Wei , Nenghai Yu

There are two challenges presented in parsing road scenes from UAV images: the complexity of processing high-resolution images and the dependency on extensive manual annotations required by traditional supervised deep learning methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zihan Ma , Yongshang Li , Ronggui Ma , Chen Liang

Cross-modal alignment is a crucial task in multimodal learning aimed at achieving semantic consistency between vision and language. This requires that image-text pairs exhibit similar semantics. Traditional algorithms pursue embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiang Ma , Lexin Fang , Litian Xu , Caiming Zhang

Text-to-image (T2I) models have ushered in a new era of real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) due to their rich internal implicit knowledge for multimodal learning. Although bringing high-level semantic priors and dense pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xinrui Li , Jinrong Zhang , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin

Mainstream Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve visual understanding by using a vision projector to bridge well-pretrained vision encoders and large language models (LLMs). The inherent gap between visual and textual modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jianting Tang , Yubo Wang , Haoyu Cao , Linli Xu

Real-world multimodal applications often require any-to-any capabilities, enabling both understanding and generation across modalities including text, image, audio, and video. However, integrating the strengths of autoregressive language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jiulin Li , Ping Huang , Yexin Li , Shuo Chen , Juewen Hu , Ye Tian

In this paper we propose USegScene, a framework for semantically guided unsupervised learning of depth, optical flow and ego-motion estimation for stereo camera images using convolutional neural networks. Our framework leverages semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Johan Vertens , Wolfram Burgard

Generating 3D human motions from textual descriptions is an important research problem with broad applications in video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Recent methods align the textual description with human motion at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Bowen Dang , Lin Wu , Xiaohang Yang , Zheng Yuan , Zhixiang Chen

Visual transfer learning for unseen categories presents an active research topic yet a challenging task, due to the inherent conflict between preserving category-specific representations and acquiring transferable knowledge. Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xiao Shi , Yangjun Ou , Zhenzhong Chen

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant progress in image and language tasks due to the strong reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, most MLLMs suffer from limited spatial reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jiajie Guo , Qingpeng Zhu , Jin Zeng , Xiaolong Wu , Changyong He , Weida Wang

We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chi Zhang , Jiepeng Wang , Youming Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiaoyan Yang , Zuoxin Li , Haibin Huang , Xuelong Li

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have recently advanced the field of deep learning due to their ability to learn continuous representations of signals without the need for large training datasets. Although INR methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mevan Ekanayake , Zhifeng Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi , Zhaolin Chen

Semantic image segmentation is a central and challenging task in autonomous driving, addressed by training deep models. Since this training draws to a curse of human-based image labeling, using synthetic images with automatically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jose L. Gómez , Gabriel Villalonga , Antonio M. López

Generative self-supervised learning on graphs, particularly graph masked autoencoders, has emerged as a popular learning paradigm and demonstrated its efficacy in handling non-Euclidean data. However, several remaining issues limit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yijun Tian , Chuxu Zhang , Ziyi Kou , Zheyuan Liu , Xiangliang Zhang , Nitesh V. Chawla

Recent advancements in image customization exhibit a wide range of application prospects due to stronger customization capabilities. However, since we humans are more sensitive to faces, a significant challenge remains in preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yufeng Cheng , Wenxu Wu , Shaojin Wu , Mengqi Huang , Fei Ding , Qian He

Self-supervised vision-language pretraining from pure images and text with a contrastive loss is effective, but ignores fine-grained alignment due to a dual-stream architecture that aligns image and text representations only on a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zaid Khan , Vijay Kumar BG , Xiang Yu , Samuel Schulter , Manmohan Chandraker , Yun Fu