LLMs have ushered in a new era of general-purpose vision systems, showcasing their prowess in processing visual inputs. This integration has led to the unification of diverse vision-language tasks through instruction tuning, marking a significant stride in the convergence of natural language understanding and visual perception.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Meta, University of Toronto, and the University of Central Florida propose VistaLLM, a robust visual system tackling coarse and fine-grained vision-language tasks across single and multiple input images through a unified framework. Employing an instruction-guided image tokenizer and a gradient-aware adaptive sampling technique extracts compressed and refined features, representing binary segmentation masks as sequences.
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), initially designed for image-level tasks like visual question answering and captioning, have evolved to address region-specific vision and language challenges. Recent advancements, exemplified by models like KOSMOS-2, VisionLLM, Shikra, GPT4RoI, and Image Encoder Instruction-Guided Image Tokenizer, showcase the integration of region-based referring and grounding tasks within general-purpose vision systems. This progress signifies a shift towards enhanced region-level vision-language reasoning, marking a substantial leap in the capabilities of MLLMs for complex multimodal tasks.
Large language models excel in natural language processing, but designing general-purpose vision models for zero-shot solutions to diverse vision problems proves challenging. Existing models need to be improved in integrating varied input-output formats and representing visual features effectively. VistaLLM, a model, addresses coarse- and fine-grained vision-language tasks for single and multiple input images using a unified framework.
VistaLLM is an advanced visual system for processing images from single or multiple sources using a unified framework. It uses an instruction-guided image tokenizer to extract refined features and a gradient-aware adaptive sampling technique for representing binary segmentation masks as sequences. The study also highlights the compatibility of EVA-CLIP with the instruction-guided image tokenizer module in the final model.
VistaLLM consistently outperforms strong baselines in a broad spectrum of vision and vision-language tasks. It surpasses the general-purpose state-of-the-art on VQAv2 COCO Captioning by 2.3 points and achieves a substantial 10.9 CIDEr points gain over the best baseline. Image captioning matches fine-tuned specialist models, showcasing the language generation capabilities of LLMs. In single-image grounding tasks like REC and RES, VistaLLM also outperforms existing baselines and matches specialist models in RES. It sets new state-of-the-art on diverse studies like PQA BQA, VCR Novel Tasks, CoSeg, and NLVR, demonstrating robust comprehension and performance across various vision-language challenges.
In conclusion, the study can be presented in summary in the following points:
- VistaLLM is a vision model that can handle coarse- and fine-grained reasoning and grounding tasks in single or multiple-input images.
- It converts functions into a sequence-to-sequence format and uses an instruction-guided image tokenizer for refined features.
- The researchers have introduced a gradient-aware adaptive contour sampling scheme to improve sequence-to-sequence segmentation.
- They have created a large instruction-tuning dataset called CoinIt and introduced AttCoSeg to address the lack of multi-image grounding datasets.
- Extensive experiments have shown that VistaLLM consistently outperforms other models across diverse vision and vision-language tasks.
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