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most citedGIFT: A Real-time and Scalable 3D Shape Search Engine

41 citations · 148 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.CV2026

Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

Ian de Holanda Cavalcanti Bezerra, Vivek Trivedy, Lucas Pascotti Valem +1

Image retrieval methods often rely on a single global semantic descriptor extracted from an image, e.g., the [CLS] token in vision transformers. However, trying to squeeze all the…

cs.AI2026

ERUnderstand: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Structured ER Diagrams

Ali Ansari, Yasmin Mohammadi, Farnoush Nili +3

Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) are central to conceptual database design, yet they are typically available only as rendered images rather than machine-readable schemas, limiti…

cs.CL2026

Scaling Performance and Low-Resource Annotation with Many-Shot In-Context Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Qi Zhang, Fangping Lan, Cornelia Caragea +2

In-context learning (ICL) with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a powerful alternative to fine-tuning for Named Entity Recognition (NER), achieving strong performance wi…

cs.CV2026

Enhancing Renal Tumor Malignancy Prediction: Deep Learning with Automatic 3D CT Organ Focused Attention

Zhengkang Fan, Chengkun Sun, Russell Terry +2

Accurate prediction of malignancy in renal tumors is crucial for informing clinical decisions and optimizing treatment strategies. However, existing imaging modalities lack the nec…

cs.CV2026

Logit Lens Supervision for Patch-Level Explanations in Vision-Language Models

Parsa Esmaeilkhani, Longin Jan Latecki

Modern autoregressive Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can generate fluent answers while their visual-token representations become weakly tied to the image regions from which they ori…

cs.CV2025

Direct Visual Grounding by Directing Attention of Visual Tokens

Parsa Esmaeilkhani, Longin Jan Latecki

Vision Language Models (VLMs) mix visual tokens and text tokens. A puzzling issue is the fact that visual tokens most related to the query receive little to no attention in the fin…

cs.CV2025

Layout Stroke Imitation: A Layout Guided Handwriting Stroke Generation for Style Imitation with Diffusion Model

Sidra Hanif, Longin Jan Latecki

Handwriting stroke generation is crucial for improving the performance of tasks such as handwriting recognition and writers order recovery. In handwriting stroke generation, it is…

cs.CL2025

Querying Climate Knowledge: Semantic Retrieval for Scientific Discovery

Mustapha Adamu, Qi Zhang, Huitong Pan +2

The growing complexity and volume of climate science literature make it increasingly difficult for researchers to find relevant information across models, datasets, regions, and va…

cs.CV2025

Learning Object Focused Attention

Vivek Trivedy, Amani Almalki, Longin Jan Latecki

We propose an adaptation to the training of Vision Transformers (ViTs) that allows for an explicit modeling of objects during the attention computation. This is achieved by adding…

cs.CL2025

DynClean: Training Dynamics-based Label Cleaning for Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition

Qi Zhang, Huitong Pan, Zhijia Chen +3

Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition (DS-NER) has attracted attention due to its scalability and ability to automatically generate labeled data. However, distant annotatio…

cs.CL2024

SciER: An Entity and Relation Extraction Dataset for Datasets, Methods, and Tasks in Scientific Documents

Qi Zhang, Zhijia Chen, Huitong Pan +3

Scientific information extraction (SciIE) is critical for converting unstructured knowledge from scholarly articles into structured data (entities and relations). Several datasets…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

FlowLearn: Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models on Flowchart Understanding

Huitong Pan, Qi Zhang, Cornelia Caragea +2

Flowcharts are graphical tools for representing complex concepts in concise visual representations. This paper introduces the FlowLearn dataset, a resource tailored to enhance the…

cs.AI2024

SciDMT: A Large-Scale Corpus for Detecting Scientific Mentions

Huitong Pan, Qi Zhang, Cornelia Caragea +2

We present SciDMT, an enhanced and expanded corpus for scientific mention detection, offering a significant advancement over existing related resources. SciDMT contains annotated s…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

VAPO: Visibility-Aware Keypoint Localization for Efficient 6DoF Object Pose Estimation

Ruyi Lian, Yuewei Lin, Longin Jan Latecki +1

Localizing predefined 3D keypoints in a 2D image is an effective way to establish 3D-2D correspondences for instance-level 6DoF object pose estimation. However, unreliable localiza…

cs.CV2023

Enhanced Masked Image Modeling for Analysis of Dental Panoramic Radiographs

Amani Almalki, Longin Jan Latecki

The computer-assisted radiologic informative report has received increasing research attention to facilitate diagnosis and treatment planning for dental care providers. However, ma…

cs.CL2023★ 12 cited

DMDD: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dataset Mentions Detection

Huitong Pan, Qi Zhang, Eduard Dragut +2

The recognition of dataset names is a critical task for automatic information extraction in scientific literature, enabling researchers to understand and identify research opportun…

cs.CV2023★ 23 cited

Graph Convolutional Networks based on Manifold Learning for Semi-Supervised Image Classification

Lucas Pascotti Valem, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, Longin Jan Latecki

Due to a huge volume of information in many domains, the need for classification methods is imperious. In spite of many advances, most of the approaches require a large amount of l…

cs.CV2023★ 11 cited

Rank Flow Embedding for Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Manifold Learning

Lucas Pascotti Valem, Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, Longin Jan Latecki

Impressive advances in acquisition and sharing technologies have made the growth of multimedia collections and their applications almost unlimited. However, the opposite is true fo…

cs.CV2022

Weakly Supervised Annotations for Multi-modal Greeting Cards Dataset

Sidra Hanif, Longin Jan Latecki

In recent years, there is a growing number of pre-trained models trained on a large corpus of data and yielding good performance on various tasks such as classifying multimodal dat…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Self-Supervised Learning with Masked Image Modeling for Teeth Numbering, Detection of Dental Restorations, and Instance Segmentation in Dental Panoramic Radiographs

Amani Almalki, Longin Jan Latecki

The computer-assisted radiologic informative report is currently emerging in dental practice to facilitate dental care and reduce time consumption in manual panoramic radiographic…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

DPNet: Dual-Path Network for Real-time Object Detection with Lightweight Attention

Quan Zhou, Huimin Shi, Weikang Xiang +3

The recent advances of compressing high-accuracy convolution neural networks (CNNs) have witnessed remarkable progress for real-time object detection. To accelerate detection speed…

cs.CV2021

DRBANET: A Lightweight Dual-Resolution Network for Semantic Segmentation with Boundary Auxiliary

Linjie Wang, Quan Zhou, Chenfeng Jiang +2

Due to the powerful ability to encode image details and semantics, many lightweight dual-resolution networks have been proposed in recent years. However, most of them ignore the be…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

DPNET: Dual-Path Network for Efficient Object Detectioj with Lightweight Self-Attention

Huimin Shi, Quan Zhou, Yinghao Ni +2

Object detection often costs a considerable amount of computation to get satisfied performance, which is unfriendly to be deployed in edge devices. To address the trade-off between…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

Pushing the Envelope of Rotation Averaging for Visual SLAM

Xinyi Li, Lin Yuan, Longin Jan Latecki +1

As an essential part of structure from motion (SfM) and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems, motion averaging has been extensively studied in the past years and co…