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Ansel Blume

5 accepted papers

2025

PARTONOMY: Large Multimodal Models with Part-Level Visual Understanding

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Real-world objects are composed of distinctive, object-specific parts. Identifying these parts is key to performing fine-grained, compositional reasoning—yet, large multimodal models (LMMs) struggle to perform this seemingly straightforward task. In this work, we introduce PARTONOMY, an LMM benchmar…

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2025

SYNTHIA: Novel Concept Design with Affordance Composition

ACL 2025long

Text-to-image (T2I) models enable rapid concept design, making them widely used in AI-driven design. While recent studies focus on generating semantic and stylistic variations of given design concepts, –the integration of multiple affordances into a single coherent concept–remains largely overlooked…

2025

Search and Detect: Training-Free Long Tail Object Detection via Web-Image Retrieval

CVPR 2025poster

In this paper, we introduce SearchDet, a training-free long-tail object detection framework that significantly enhances open-vocabulary object detection performance. SearchDet retrieves a set of positive and negative images of an object to ground, embeds these images, and computes an input image--we…

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2024

Region-Based Representations Revisited

CVPR 2024poster

We investigate whether region-based representations are effective for recognition. Regions were once a mainstay in recognition approaches but pixel and patch-based features are now used almost exclusively. We show that recent class-agnostic segmenters like SAM can be effectively combined with strong…

2023

Paxion: Patching Action Knowledge in Video-Language Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Action knowledge involves the understanding of textual, visual, and temporal aspects of actions. We introduce the **Action Dynamics Benchmark (ActionBench)** containing two carefully designed probing tasks: Action Antonym and Video Reversal, which targets multimodal alignment capabilities and tempor…