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6 papers

cs.CV2026

MMArt: A Multi-Perspective Multimodal Dataset for Visual Art Understanding

Shuai Wang, Wangyuan Ding, Yixian Shen +5

Recent vision-language models demonstrate impressive general visual understanding, yet their art interpretation remains shallow: they describe surface content but struggle with for…

cs.AI2026

A-MAR: Agent-based Multimodal Art Retrieval for Fine-Grained Artwork Understanding

Shuai Wang, Hongyi Zhu, Jia-Hong Huang +6

Understanding artworks requires multi-step reasoning over visual content and cultural, historical, and stylistic context. While recent multimodal large language models show promise…

cs.CV2026

Set2Seq Transformer: Temporal and Position-Aware Set Representations for Sequential Multiple-Instance Learning

Athanasios Efthymiou, Stevan Rudinac, Monika Kackovic +2

In many real-world applications, modeling both the internal structure of sets and their temporal relationships is essential for capturing complex underlying patterns. Sequential mu…

cs.AI2026

VL-KGE: Vision-Language Models Meet Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Athanasios Efthymiou, Stevan Rudinac, Monika Kackovic +2

Real-world multimodal knowledge graphs (MKGs) are inherently heterogeneous, modeling entities that are associated with diverse modalities. Traditional knowledge graph embedding (KG…

cs.AI2025

ArtRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Structured Context for Visual Art Understanding

Shuai Wang, Ivona Najdenkoska, Hongyi Zhu +4

Understanding visual art requires reasoning across multiple perspectives -- cultural, historical, and stylistic -- beyond mere object recognition. While recent multimodal large lan…

cs.CV2025

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Enhanced Visual Representation of Paintings

Athanasios Efthymiou, Stevan Rudinac, Monika Kackovic +2

We propose ArtSAGENet, a novel multimodal architecture that integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), to jointly learn visual and semantic-b…