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Computer vision traditionally concentrates on acknowledging universally agreed concepts like animals, vehicles, or specific objects. However, real-world applications often need to identify variable subjective concepts like predicting emotions, determining aesthetic appeal, or regulating content. What is considered "unsafe" content or "gourmet" food differs greatly among individuals, hence the increasing demand for user-centric training frameworks that…

The evolution of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has been significant, particularly those models that blend language and vision modalities (LVMs). There has been growing interest in applying MLLMs in various fields like computer vision tasks and integrating them into complex pipelines. Despite some models like ShareGPTV performing well in data annotation tasks, their practical…

Computer vision researchers frequently concentrate on developing powerful encoder networks for self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, intending to generate image representations. However, the predictive part of the model, which potentially contains valuable information, is often overlooked post-pretraining. This research introduces a distinctive approach that repurposes the predictive model for various downstream vision tasks rather than discarding…

Recent advancements in large vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in performing multimodal tasks. However, these models have shortcomings when it comes to fine-grained region grounding, inter-object spatial relations, and compositional reasoning. These limitations affect the model's capability to follow visual prompts like bounding boxes that spotlight vital regions. Challenged by these limitations, researchers at…