Online text recognition models have advanced significantly in recent years due to enhanced model structures and larger datasets. However, mathematical expression (ME) recognition, a more intricate task, has yet to receive comparable attention. Unlike text, MEs have a rigid two-dimensional structure where the spatial arrangement of symbols is crucial. Handwritten MEs (HMEs) pose even greater…

Within multimedia and communication contexts, the human face serves as a dynamic medium capable of expressing emotions and fostering connections. AI-generated talking faces represent an advancement with potential implications across various domains. These include enhancing digital communication, improving accessibility for individuals with communicative impairments, revolutionizing education through AI tutoring, and offering therapeutic and social support…

Multimodal architectures are revolutionizing the way systems process and interpret complex data. These advanced architectures facilitate simultaneous analysis of diverse data types such as text and images, broadening AI’s capabilities to mirror human cognitive functions more accurately. The seamless integration of these modalities is crucial for developing more intuitive and responsive AI systems that can…

In AI, searching for machines capable of comprehending their environment with near-human accuracy has led to significant advancements in semantic segmentation. This field, integral to AI’s perception capabilities, includes allocating a semantic label to each pixel in an image, facilitating a detailed understanding of the scene. However, conventional segmentation techniques often falter under less-than-ideal conditions,…

The remarkable strides made by the Transformer architecture in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have ignited a surge of interest within the Computer Vision (CV) community. The Transformer’s adaptation in vision tasks, termed Vision Transformers (ViTs), delineates images into non-overlapping patches, converts each patch into tokens, and subsequently applies Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) to capture inter-token dependencies.…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven their impressive instruction-following capabilities, and they can be a universal interface for various tasks such as text generation, language translation, etc. These models can be extended to multimodal LLMs to process language and other modalities, such as Image, video, and audio. Several recent works introduce models that specialize in…

The performance of multimodal large Language Models (MLLMs) in visual situations has been exceptional, gaining unmatched attention. However, their ability to solve visual math problems must still be fully assessed and comprehended. For this reason, mathematics often presents challenges in understanding complex concepts and interpreting the visual information crucial for solving problems. In educational contexts…

While humans can easily infer the shape of an object from 2D images, computers struggle to reconstruct accurate 3D models without knowledge of the camera poses. This problem, known as pose inference, is crucial for various applications, like creating 3D models for e-commerce and aiding autonomous vehicle navigation. Existing techniques relying on either gathering the…

VLMs are potent tools for grasping visual and textual data, promising advancements in tasks like image captioning and visual question answering. Limited data availability hampers their performance. Recent strides show that pre-training VLMs on larger image-text datasets improves downstream tasks. Yet, creating such datasets faces challenges: scarcity of paired data, high curation costs, low diversity,…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in enhancing surgical precision through semantic segmentation and accurately identifying robotic instruments and tissues. However, they face catastrophic forgetting and a rapid decline in performance on previous tasks when learning new ones, posing challenges in scenarios with limited data. DNNs’ struggle with catastrophic forgetting hampers their proficiency in recognizing previously…