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Image captioning model is a cross-modality knowledge discovery task, which targets at automatically describing an image with an informative and coherent sentence. To generate the captions, the previous encoder-decoder frameworks directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ziwei Wang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Building multi-modal language models has been a trend in the recent years, where additional modalities such as image, video, speech, etc. are jointly learned along with natural languages (i.e., textual information). Despite the success of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Mohammad Akbari , Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Behnam Kamranian , Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Yong Zhang

Guiding users through complex procedural plans is an inherently multimodal task in which having visually illustrated plan steps is crucial to deliver an effective plan guidance. However, existing works on plan-following language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Diogo Glória-Silva , David Semedo , João Magalhães

Real-world design processes often involve the evolution and divergence of design paths (by branching, revising, merging, etc.), especially when multiple stakeholders or teams operate concurrently and/or explore different alternatives for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sylvain Guérin , Salvador Martinez , Ciprian Teodorov

Urban design is a multifaceted process that demands careful consideration of site-specific constraints and collaboration among diverse professionals and stakeholders. The advent of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mingyi He , Yuebing Liang , Shenhao Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Qingyi Wang , Dingyi Zhuang , Li Tian , Jinhua Zhao

Multimodal learning, a rapidly evolving field in artificial intelligence, seeks to construct more versatile and robust systems by integrating and analyzing diverse types of data, including text, images, audio, and video. Inspired by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Bhargava Kumar , Amit Agarwal , Ishan Banerjee , Srikant Panda , Tejaswini Kumar

The rise of foundation models has transformed machine learning research, prompting efforts to uncover their inner workings and develop more efficient and reliable applications for better control. While significant progress has been made in…

We introduce MM-Mixing, a multi-modal mixing alignment framework for 3D understanding. MM-Mixing applies mixing-based methods to multi-modal data, preserving and optimizing cross-modal connections while enhancing diversity and improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiaze Wang , Yi Wang , Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Donghao Zhou , Guangyong Chen , Anfeng Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Compositional training has been the de-facto paradigm in existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where pre-trained vision encoders are connected with pre-trained LLMs through continuous multimodal pre-training. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Changyao Tian , Hao Li , Gen Luo , Xizhou Zhu , Weijie Su , Hanming Deng , Jinguo Zhu , Jie Shao , Ziran Zhu , Yunpeng Liu , Lewei Lu , Wenhai Wang , Hongsheng Li , Jifeng Dai

Multimodal interfaces, combining the use of speech, graphics, gestures, and facial expressions in input and output, promise to provide new possibilities to deal with information in more effective and efficient ways, supporting for instance:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-24 Harry Bunt , Laurent Romary

Traditional multimodal methods often assume static modality quality, which limits their adaptability in dynamic real-world scenarios. Thus, dynamical multimodal methods are proposed to assess modality quality and adjust their contribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shicai Wei , Kaijie Zhang , Luyi Chen , Tao He , Guiduo Duan

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated the emergence of in-context learning (ICL) as a cutting-edge approach in the natural language processing domain. Recently, ICL has been employed in visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dianmo Sheng , Dongdong Chen , Zhentao Tan , Qiankun Liu , Qi Chu , Jianmin Bao , Tao Gong , Bin Liu , Shengwei Xu , Nenghai Yu

We propose MAViD, a novel Multimodal framework for Audio-Visual Dialogue understanding and generation. Existing approaches primarily focus on non-interactive systems and are limited to producing constrained and unnatural human speech. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Youxin Pang , Jiajun Liu , Lingfeng Tan , Yong Zhang , Feng Gao , Xiang Deng , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Yebin Liu

Multi-modal systems have the capacity of producing more reliable results than systems with a single modality in road detection due to perceiving different aspects of the scene. We focus on using raw sensor inputs instead of, as it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Erkan Milli , Özgür Erkent , Asım Egemen Yılmaz

Multimodal learning is a framework for building models that make predictions based on different types of modalities. Important challenges in multimodal learning are the inference of shared representations from arbitrary modalities and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

Context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) is a promising direction to improve the translation quality by making use of the additional context, e.g., document-level translation, or having meta-information. Although there exist various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jingjing Huo , Christian Herold , Yingbo Gao , Leonard Dahlmann , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

Multimodal generative models have made significant strides in image editing, demonstrating impressive performance on a variety of static tasks. However, their proficiency typically does not extend to complex scenarios requiring dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhiqiang Sheng , Xumeng Han , Zhiwei Zhang , Zenghui Xiong , Yifan Ding , Aoxiang Ping , Xiang Li , Tong Guo , Yao Mao

Integrating visual and linguistic information into a single multimodal representation is an unsolved problem with wide-reaching applications to both natural language processing and computer vision. In this paper, we present a simple method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-28 Guillem Collell , Teddy Zhang , Marie-Francine Moens

3D mapping in dynamic environments poses a challenge for modern researchers in robotics and autonomous transportation. There are no universal representations for dynamic 3D scenes that incorporate multimodal data such as images, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dmitry Yudin