Foundation Models Defining a New Era in Vision: a Survey and Outlook

M Awais, M Naseer, S Khan, RM Anwer… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision systems that see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are
fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their …

Vision-language pre-training: Basics, recent advances, and future trends

Z Gan, L Li, C Li, L Wang, Z Liu… - Foundations and Trends …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
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 …

Image as a foreign language: Beit pretraining for vision and vision-language tasks

W Wang, H Bao, L Dong, J Bjorck… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
A big convergence of language, vision, and multimodal pretraining is emerging. In this work,
we introduce a general-purpose multimodal foundation model BEiT-3, which achieves …

Videochat: Chat-centric video understanding

KC Li, Y He, Y Wang, Y Li, W Wang, P Luo… - ar** an end-to-end chat-centric video
understanding system, coined as VideoChat. It integrates video foundation models and …

Internvideo2: Scaling foundation models for multimodal video understanding

Y Wang, K Li, X Li, J Yu, Y He, G Chen, B Pei… - … on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
We introduce InternVideo2, a new family of video foundation models (ViFM) that achieve the
state-of-the-art results in video recognition, video-text tasks, and video-centric dialogue. Our …

Vision-language models for vision tasks: A survey

J Zhang, J Huang, S **, S Lu - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most visual recognition studies rely heavily on crowd-labelled data in deep neural networks
(DNNs) training, and they usually train a DNN for each single visual recognition task …

Maple: Multi-modal prompt learning

MU Khattak, H Rasheed, M Maaz… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Pre-trained vision-language (VL) models such as CLIP have shown excellent generalization
ability to downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the choice of input text prompts …

Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future

R Firoozi, J Tucker, S Tian… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep
learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which …

Datacomp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets

SY Gadre, G Ilharco, A Fang… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Multimodal datasets are a critical component in recent breakthroughs such as CLIP, Stable
Diffusion and GPT-4, yet their design does not receive the same research attention as model …

Multimodal learning with transformers: A survey

P Xu, X Zhu, DA Clifton - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transformer is a promising neural network learner, and has achieved great success in
various machine learning tasks. Thanks to the recent prevalence of multimodal applications …