Detailed Object Description With Controllable Dimensions

Object description plays an important role for visually impaired individuals to understand and compare the differences between objects. Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit powerful perceptual abilities and demonstrate impressive potential for generating object-centric descriptions. However, the descriptions generated by such models may still usually contain a lot of content that is not relevant to the user intent or miss some important object dimension details. Under special scenarios, users may only need the details of certain dimensions of an object. In this paper, we propose a training-free object description refinement pipeline, <bold xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Dimension Tailor</b>, designed to enhance user-specified details in object descriptions. This pipeline includes three steps: dimension extracting, erasing, and supplementing, which decompose the description into user-specified dimensions. Dimension Tailor can not only improve the quality of object details but also offer flexibility in including or excluding specific dimensions based on user preferences. We conducted extensive experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of Dimension Tailor on controllable object descriptions. Notably, the proposed pipeline can consistently improve the performance of the recent MLLMs. The code is currently accessible at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/PRIS-CV/ControllableObjectDescription</uri>.

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IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.1109/tmm.2025.3607747
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Semantic Web and Ontologies
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Detailed Object Description With Controllable Dimensions

Zhanyu Ma, Haiwen Zhang, Hao Sun, Kongming Liang et al.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Semantic Web and Ontologies
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Detailed Object Description With Controllable Dimensions

Zhanyu Ma, Haiwen Zhang, Hao Sun, Kongming Liang, Bin Li, Xinran Wang, Jun Guo, Zhongjiang He
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Abstract

Object description plays an important role for visually impaired individuals to understand and compare the differences between objects. Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit powerful perceptual abilities and demonstrate impressive potential for generating object-centric descriptions. However, the descriptions generated by such models may still usually contain a lot of content that is not relevant to the user intent or miss some important object dimension details. Under special scenarios, users may only need the details of certain dimensions of an object. In this paper, we propose a training-free object description refinement pipeline, <bold xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Dimension Tailor</b>, designed to enhance user-specified details in object descriptions. This pipeline includes three steps: dimension extracting, erasing, and supplementing, which decompose the description into user-specified dimensions. Dimension Tailor can not only improve the quality of object details but also offer flexibility in including or excluding specific dimensions based on user preferences. We conducted extensive experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of Dimension Tailor on controllable object descriptions. Notably, the proposed pipeline can consistently improve the performance of the recent MLLMs. The code is currently accessible at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/PRIS-CV/ControllableObjectDescription</uri>.

IEEE Transactions on MultimediaVol. 27
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN), Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (CN), China Telecom (China) (CN), China Telecom (CN)
Openalex Percentile: Top 87%
Semantic Web and Ontologies
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