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ViP-LLaVA: Making Large Multimodal Models Understand Arbitrary Visual Prompts

Mu Cai · Haotian Liu · Siva Mustikovela · Gregory P. Meyer · Yuning Chai · Dennis Park · Yong Jae Lee

Arch 4A-E Poster #317
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Thu 20 Jun 10:30 a.m. PDT — noon PDT

Abstract:

While existing large vision-language multimodal models focus on whole image understanding, there is a prominent gap in achieving region-specific comprehension. Current approaches that use textual coordinates or spatial encodings often fail to provide a user-friendly interface for visual prompting. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel multimodal model capable of decoding arbitrary (free-form) visual prompts. This allows users to intuitively mark images and interact with the model using natural cues like a red bounding box or pointed arrow. Our simple design directly overlays visual markers onto the RGB image, eliminating the need for complex region encodings, yet achieves state-of-the-art performance on region-understanding tasks like Visual7W, PointQA, and Visual Commonsense Reasoning benchmark. Furthermore, we present RegionBench, a comprehensive benchmark to assess the capability of models in understanding visual prompts across multiple dimensions, enabling future research in this domain. Code and demo will be released.

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