3 papers
cs.CV2025
Vision-Free Retrieval: Rethinking Multimodal Search with Textual Scene Descriptions
Ioanna Ntinou, Alexandros Xenos, Yassine Ouali +2
Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have become the standard approach for learning discriminative vision-language representations. However, these mod…
cs.CV2025
VLLMs Provide Better Context for Emotion Understanding Through Common Sense Reasoning
Alexandros Xenos, Niki Maria Foteinopoulou, Ioanna Ntinou +2
Recognising emotions in context involves identifying an individual's apparent emotions while considering contextual cues from the surrounding scene. Previous approaches to this tas…
cs.CV2025
VladVA: Discriminative Fine-tuning of LVLMs
Yassine Ouali, Adrian Bulat, Alexandros Xenos +4
Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models ha…