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most citedReliable Fidelity and Diversity Metrics for Generative Models

54 citations · 109 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CV2026

Segmenting, Fast and Slow: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation with Dual-Path Processing

Luca Barsellotti, Martin Sundermeyer, Mattia Segu +5

Object-centric models inspired by DETR have become the dominant paradigm for open-vocabulary video instance segmentation (OV-VIS). While recent efforts have reduced the computation…

cs.CV2026

DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen +33

Building performant Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires carefully curating large-scale training datasets, yet the community lacks systematic benchmarks for evaluating such curat…

cs.CV2026

PARCEL: Pool-Anchored Resampling with Conditioned Elastic Queries for Efficient Vision-Language Understanding

Selim Kuzucu, Alessio Tonioni, Vasile Lup +3

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) map visual inputs into dense token sequences, imposing a quadratic computational bottleneck for inference. Elastic visual-token compression add…

cs.CV2025

RefAM: Attention Magnets for Zero-Shot Referral Segmentation

Anna Kukleva, Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni +4

Most existing approaches to referring segmentation achieve strong performance only through fine-tuning or by composing multiple pre-trained models, often at the cost of additional…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning via Low-Rank Adapted LLMs

Selim Kuzucu, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Anna Kukleva +2

The integration of Large Language Model (LLM) blocks with Vision Transformers (ViTs) holds significant promise for vision-only tasks by leveraging the rich semantic knowledge and r…

cs.CV2024

Active Data Curation Effectively Distills Large-Scale Multimodal Models

Vishaal Udandarao, Nikhil Parthasarathy, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem +6

Knowledge distillation (KD) is the de facto standard for compressing large-scale models into smaller ones. Prior works have explored ever more complex KD strategies involving diffe…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

TokenFormer: Rethinking Transformer Scaling with Tokenized Model Parameters

Haiyang Wang, Yue Fan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem +5

Transformers have become the predominant architecture in foundation models due to their excellent performance across various domains. However, the substantial cost of scaling these…

cs.CV2024

Toward a Diffusion-Based Generalist for Dense Vision Tasks

Yue Fan, Yongqin Xian, Xiaohua Zhai +4

Building generalized models that can solve many computer vision tasks simultaneously is an intriguing direction. Recent works have shown image itself can be used as a natural inter…

cs.CV2024

How Good is my Video LMM? Complex Video Reasoning and Robustness Evaluation Suite for Video-LMMs

Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Jameel Hassan +4

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to the development of Video Large Multi-modal Models (Video-LMMs) that can handle a wide range of video understanding t…

cs.CV2024

GiT: Towards Generalist Vision Transformer through Universal Language Interface

Haiyang Wang, Hao Tang, Li Jiang +5

This paper proposes a simple, yet effective framework, called GiT, simultaneously applicable for various vision tasks only with a vanilla ViT. Motivated by the universality of the…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Human Pose Descriptions and Subject-Focused Attention for Improved Zero-Shot Transfer in Human-Centric Classification Tasks

Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Federico Tombari +3

We present a novel LLM-based pipeline for creating contextual descriptions of human body poses in images using only auxiliary attributes. This approach facilitates the creation of…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Learning to Prompt with Text Only Supervision for Vision-Language Models

Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Muzammal Naseer +2

Foundational vision-language models such as CLIP are becoming a new paradigm in vision, due to their excellent generalization abilities. However, adapting these models for downstre…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

SemiVL: Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation with Vision-Language Guidance

Lukas Hoyer, David Joseph Tan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem +2

In semi-supervised semantic segmentation, a model is trained with a limited number of labeled images along with a large corpus of unlabeled images to reduce the high annotation eff…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

SILC: Improving Vision Language Pretraining with Self-Distillation

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Xiaohua Zhai +3

Image-Text pretraining on web-scale image caption datasets has become the default recipe for open vocabulary classification and retrieval models thanks to the success of CLIP and i…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Introducing Language Guidance in Prompt-based Continual Learning

Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Luc Van Gool +3

Continual Learning aims to learn a single model on a sequence of tasks without having access to data from previous tasks. The biggest challenge in the domain still remains catastro…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

I2MVFormer: Large Language Model Generated Multi-View Document Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Classification

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan, Yongqin Xian +4

Recent works have shown that unstructured text (documents) from online sources can serve as useful auxiliary information for zero-shot image classification. However, these methods…

cs.CV2022

Learning Attention Propagation for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Luc Van Gool +3

Compositional zero-shot learning aims to recognize unseen compositions of seen visual primitives of object classes and their states. While all primitives (states and objects) are o…

cs.CV2022★ 21 cited

I2DFormer: Learning Image to Document Attention for Zero-Shot Image Classification

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Luc Van Gool +1

Despite the tremendous progress in zero-shot learning(ZSL), the majority of existing methods still rely on human-annotated attributes, which are difficult to annotate and scale. An…

cs.CV2021

3D Compositional Zero-shot Learning with DeCompositional Consensus

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Evin Pınar Örnek, Yongqin Xian +2

Parts represent a basic unit of geometric and semantic similarity across different objects. We argue that part knowledge should be composable beyond the observed object classes. To…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Learning Graph Embeddings for Open World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

Massimiliano Mancini, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian +1

Compositional Zero-Shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen compositions of state and object visual primitives seen during training. A problem with standard CZSL is the assump…

cs.CV2021

Learning Graph Embeddings for Compositional Zero-shot Learning

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian, Federico Tombari +1

In compositional zero-shot learning, the goal is to recognize unseen compositions (e.g. old dog) of observed visual primitives states (e.g. old, cute) and objects (e.g. car, dog) i…

cs.CV2021

Open World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

Massimiliano Mancini, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Yongqin Xian +1

Compositional Zero-Shot learning (CZSL) requires to recognize state-object compositions unseen during training. In this work, instead of assuming prior knowledge about the unseen c…

cs.CV2020★ 54 cited

Reliable Fidelity and Diversity Metrics for Generative Models

Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Seong Joon Oh, Youngjung Uh +2

Devising indicative evaluation metrics for the image generation task remains an open problem. The most widely used metric for measuring the similarity between real and generated im…

cs.CV2019★ 5 cited

Deep Learning Under the Microscope: Improving the Interpretability of Medical Imaging Neural Networks

Magdalini Paschali, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Walter Simson +3

In this paper, we propose a novel interpretation method tailored to histological Whole Slide Image (WSI) processing. A Deep Neural Network (DNN), inspired by Bag-of-Features models…