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Vision-Language Pre-Training: Basics, Recent Advances, and Future Trends

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Gan, Zhe, Li, Linjie, Li, Chunyuan, Wang, Lijuan, Liu, Zicheng, Gao, Jianfeng·2022·Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision

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This monograph surveys vision-language pre-training (VLP) methods for multimodal intelligence that have been developed in the last few years. We group these approaches into three categories: (i) VLP for image-text tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding; (ii) VLP for core computer vision tasks, such as (open-set) image classification, object detection, and segmentation; and (iii) VLP for video-text tasks, such as video captioning, video-text retrieval, and video question answering. For each category, we present a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art methods, and discuss the progress that has been made and challenges still being faced, using specific systems and models as case studies. In addition, for each category, we discuss advanced topics being actively explored in the research community, such as big foundation models, unified modeling, in-context few-shot learning, knowledge, robustness, and computer vision in the wild, to name a few.

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  • During training, specialized encoders extract features from different modalities, then cross-modal alignment mechanisms integrate them.

    “During training, the model employs specialized encoders (e.g., convolutional neural networks for visual data, transformer architectures for text and audio data) [171,172] to extract features from different modalities, and then interacts and integrates these features through cross-modal alignment mechanisms [173,174].”

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Authors
Gan, Z., Li, L., Li, C., Wang, L., Liu, Z., & Gao, J.
Affiliations
Microsoft (United States) (US)
Venue
Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision
Publisher
Emerald
Published
2022-12-05
Volume
14
Issue
3-4
Pages
163-352
ISSN
  • 1572-2740 (ISSN-L)
  • 1572-2759
OpenAlex
W4312810944
Cited by
155
References
291
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 32
FWCI
11.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
vision-language pre-training, multimodal learning, image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, visual grounding, video captioning, video-text retrieval, video question answering, image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, foundation models, unified modeling, robustness

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