Multimodal Research Advancements

The field of multimodal research is moving towards addressing language bias and improving performance in specific domains. Large-scale datasets are being developed to support the development of inclusive vision-language systems, such as datasets for under-served languages. Additionally, there is a focus on creating datasets that integrate multiple tasks and modalities to facilitate comprehensive cross-modal reasoning. Noteworthy papers include: COCO-Urdu, which introduces a large-scale Urdu image-caption dataset to reduce language bias in multimodal research. MITS, which presents a large-scale multimodal benchmark dataset for Intelligent Traffic Surveillance, significantly improving the performance of large multimodal models in this domain. UnifiedVisual, which introduces a framework for constructing unified vision-language datasets, enabling mutual enhancement between multimodal understanding and generation.

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COCO-Urdu: A Large-Scale Urdu Image-Caption Dataset with Multimodal Quality Estimation

Image Recognition with Vision and Language Embeddings of VLMs

MITS: A Large-Scale Multimodal Benchmark Dataset for Intelligent Traffic Surveillance

UnifiedVisual: A Framework for Constructing Unified Vision-Language Datasets

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