Long-term change understanding from images of the same place revisited over time is a challenging task with applications in map maintenance and urban infrastructure monitoring. Prior work addresses it...
The paper introduces set difference captioning for autonomous driving datasets, aiming to generate natural‑language descriptions of differences between two image subsets. It adapts a two‑stage approach to focus on object‑centric patches, allowing attribution of differences to specific objects or categories. A new benchmark, AD‑Diff Bench, is presented to evaluate these methods, especially for sparse, real‑world differences, with open‑weight models to ensure reproducibility.
arXiv:2606. 28724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and localizing subtle changes between paired images is critical for tasks such as surveillance and image editing.
The paper introduces set difference captioning for autonomous driving datasets, aiming to generate natural‑language descriptions of differences between two image subsets. It adapts a two‑stage approach to focus on object‑centric patches, enabling attribution of differences to specific objects or categories. A new benchmark, AD‑Diff Bench, is presented to evaluate this method, especially for sparse, real‑world differences, and the authors provide open‑weight models and code for reproducibility.
arXiv:2606. 00987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong visual understanding and language-guided grounding abilities, yet their capacity for multi-temporal visual reasoning remains underexplored.
Intelligent systems that act in the world require image understanding that is both comprehensive and spatially grounded. Current vision-language models (VLMs) can generate fluent and detailed image ca...
arXiv:2609.19143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intelligent systems that act in the world require image understanding that is both comprehensive and spatially grounded. Current vision-language mode...
arXiv:2608. 01856v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bi-temporal remote-sensing disaster change captioning often needs to identify sparse and spatially localized changes across large pre- and post-event scenes and then translate them into coherent, factual descriptions.
arXiv:2510. 14904v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense Video Object Captioning (DVOC) is the task of jointly detecting, tracking, and captioning object trajectories in a video, requiring the ability to understand spatio-temporal details and describe them in natural language.
The paper introduces Seeing Before Synthesizing (SBS), a weakly-supervised dense video captioning framework that uses a vision‑language model to generate frame‑level narratives for gaps between events and detect transitions based on semantic changes. SBS refines temporal masks by aligning transition points with vision‑language cues, rather than relying on rigidly placed synthetic captions. Experiments on ActivityNet Captions and YouCook2 show that SBS achieves state‑of‑the‑art results in both captioning and localization tasks.
arXiv:2609.09876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense change detection in remote sensing requires vision-language models (VLMs) to compare bi-temporal images and generate accurate pixel-level masks....
arXiv:2606. 27410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The primary goal of Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning (RSICC) is to automatically generate descriptions of changes between remote sensing images captured at different time points.