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Vision-Language Pre-Training: Basics, Recent Advances, and Future Trends
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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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- 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
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- 2022-12-05
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- 14
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- 3-4
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- 163-352
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- 1572-2740 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-2759
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- 291
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- 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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