Bridging the Gap Between Artistic Intent and Technical Execution Photo retouching is a core aspect of digital photography, enabling users to manipulate image elements such as tone, exposure, and contrast to create visually compelling content. Whether for professional purposes or personal expression, users often seek to enhance images in ways that align with specific aesthetic…

Understanding the Link Between Body Movement and Visual Perception The study of human visual perception through egocentric views is crucial in developing intelligent systems capable of understanding & interacting with their environment. This area emphasizes how movements of the human body—ranging from locomotion to arm manipulation—shape what is seen from a first-person perspective. Understanding this…

Why Multimodal Reasoning Matters for Vision-Language Tasks Multimodal reasoning enables models to make informed decisions and answer questions by combining both visual and textual information. This type of reasoning plays a central role in interpreting charts, answering image-based questions, and understanding complex visual documents. The goal is to make machines capable of using vision as…

Navigating the dense urban canyons of cities like San Francisco or New York can be a nightmare for GPS systems. The towering skyscrapers block and reflect satellite signals, leading to location errors of tens of meters. For you and me, that might mean a missed turn. But for an autonomous vehicle or a delivery robot,…

Multimodal modeling focuses on building systems to understand and generate content across visual and textual formats. These models are designed to interpret visual scenes and produce new images using natural language prompts. With growing interest in bridging vision and language, researchers are working toward integrating image recognition and image generation capabilities into a unified system.…

LLMs have made significant strides in language-related tasks such as conversational AI, reasoning, and code generation. However, human communication extends beyond text, often incorporating visual elements to enhance understanding. To create a truly versatile AI, models need the ability to process and generate text and visual information simultaneously. Training such unified vision-language models from scratch…

The CLIP framework has become foundational in multimodal representation learning, particularly for tasks such as image-text retrieval. However, it faces several limitations: a strict 77-token cap on text input, a dual-encoder design that separates image and text processing, and a limited compositional understanding that resembles bag-of-words models. These issues hinder its effectiveness in capturing nuanced,…

Process-supervised reward models (PRMs) offer fine-grained, step-wise feedback on model responses, aiding in selecting effective reasoning paths for complex tasks. Unlike output reward models (ORMs), which evaluate responses based on final outputs, PRMs provide detailed assessments at each step, making them particularly valuable for reasoning-intensive applications. While PRMs have been extensively studied in language tasks,…