In image generation, diffusion models have significantly advanced, leading to the widespread availability of top-tier models on open-source platforms. Despite these strides, challenges in text-to-image systems persist, particularly in managing diverse inputs and being confined to single-model outcomes. Unified efforts commonly address two distinct facets: first, the parsing of various prompts during the input stage,…

Contrastive pre-training using large, noisy image-text datasets has become popular for building general vision representations. These models align global image and text features in a shared space through similar and dissimilar pairs, excelling in tasks like image classification and retrieval. However, they need help with fine-grained tasks such as localization and spatial relationships. Recent efforts…

In the challenging fight against illegal poaching and human trafficking, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis’s McKelvey School of Engineering have devised a smart solution to enhance geospatial exploration. The problem at hand is how to efficiently search large areas to find and stop such activities. The current methods for local searches are limited…