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most citedSILC: Improving Vision Language Pretraining with Self-Distillation

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cs.CV2026

The First EgoCross Challenge at EgoVis 2026: Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answering

Yuqian Fu, Tianwen Qian, Yanjun Li +30

EgoCross is a cross-domain egocentric video question answering benchmark designed to evaluate whether multimodal large language models can generalize beyond common daily-life scena…

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

FINER: MLLMs Hallucinate under Fine-grained Negative Queries

Rui Xiao, Sanghwan Kim, Yongqin Xian +2

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with hallucinations, particularly with fine-grained queries, a challenge underrepresented by existing benchmarks that focus on coa…

cs.CV2025

MOBIUS: Big-to-Mobile Universal Instance Segmentation via Multi-modal Bottleneck Fusion and Calibrated Decoder Pruning

Mattia Segu, Marta Tintore Gazulla, Yongqin Xian +2

Scaling up model size and training data has advanced foundation models for instance-level perception, achieving state-of-the-art in-domain and zero-shot performance across object d…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Omnia de EgoTempo: Benchmarking Temporal Understanding of Multi-Modal LLMs in Egocentric Videos

Chiara Plizzari, Alessio Tonioni, Yongqin Xian +2

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial in egocentric videos, where continuous streams capture frequent, close-up interactions with objects. In this work, we bring…

cs.CV2024

UIP2P: Unsupervised Instruction-based Image Editing via Edit Reversibility Constraint

Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Yongqin Xian +2

We propose an unsupervised instruction-based image editing approach that removes the need for ground-truth edited images during training. Existing methods rely on supervised learni…

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★ 1 cited

LocCa: Visual Pretraining with Location-aware Captioners

Bo Wan, Michael Tschannen, Yongqin Xian +7

Image captioning has been shown as an effective pretraining method similar to contrastive pretraining. However, the incorporation of location-aware information into visual pretrain…

cs.CV2023

Text-Conditioned Resampler For Long Form Video Understanding

Bruno Korbar, Yongqin Xian, Alessio Tonioni +2

In this paper we present a text-conditioned video resampler (TCR) module that uses a pre-trained and frozen visual encoder and large language model (LLM) to process long video sequ…

cs.CV2023

LIME: Localized Image Editing via Attention Regularization in Diffusion Models

Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Yongqin Xian +2

Diffusion models (DMs) have gained prominence due to their ability to generate high-quality varied images with recent advancements in text-to-image generation. The research focus i…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

PALM: Predicting Actions through Language Models

Sanghwan Kim, Daoji Huang, Yongqin Xian +3

Understanding human activity is a crucial yet intricate task in egocentric vision, a field that focuses on capturing visual perspectives from the camera wearer's viewpoint. Traditi…

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…