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most citedStory Understanding in Video Advertisements

6 citations · 7 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CV2025

A Multimodal Recaptioning Framework to Account for Perceptual Diversity Across Languages in Vision-Language Modeling

Kyle Buettner, Jacob T. Emmerson, Adriana Kovashka

When captioning an image, people describe objects in diverse ways, such as by using different terms and/or including details that are perceptually noteworthy to them. Descriptions…

cs.CV2024

Quantifying the Gaps Between Translation and Native Perception in Training for Multimodal, Multilingual Retrieval

Kyle Buettner, Adriana Kovashka

There is a scarcity of multilingual vision-language models that properly account for the perceptual differences that are reflected in image captions across languages and cultures.…

cs.CV2024

Incorporating Geo-Diverse Knowledge into Prompting for Increased Geographical Robustness in Object Recognition

Kyle Buettner, Sina Malakouti, Xiang Lorraine Li +1

Existing object recognition models have been shown to lack robustness in diverse geographical scenarios due to domain shifts in design and context. Class representations need to be…

cs.CV2023

Investigating the Role of Attribute Context in Vision-Language Models for Object Recognition and Detection

Kyle Buettner, Adriana Kovashka

Vision-language alignment learned from image-caption pairs has been shown to benefit tasks like object recognition and detection. Methods are mostly evaluated in terms of how well…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Contrastive View Design Strategies to Enhance Robustness to Domain Shifts in Downstream Object Detection

Kyle Buettner, Adriana Kovashka

Contrastive learning has emerged as a competitive pretraining method for object detection. Despite this progress, there has been minimal investigation into the robustness of contra…

cs.CV2018★ 6 cited

Story Understanding in Video Advertisements

Keren Ye, Kyle Buettner, Adriana Kovashka

In order to resonate with the viewers, many video advertisements explore creative narrative techniques such as "Freytag's pyramid" where a story begins with exposition, followed by…