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Mahmoud Azab

3 accepted papers

2025

CompCap: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models with Composite Captions

ICCV 2025poster

How well can Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) understand composite images? Composite images (CIs) are synthetic visuals created by merging multiple visual elements, such as charts, posters, or screenshots, rather than being captured directly by a camera. While CIs are prevalent in real-world…

2023

SIMMC-VR: A Task-oriented Multimodal Dialog Dataset with Situated and Immersive VR Streams

ACL 2023long

Building an AI assistant that can seamlessly converse and instruct humans, in a user-centric situated scenario, requires several essential abilities:(1) spatial and temporal understanding of the situated and real-time user scenes,(2) capability of grounding the actively perceived visuals of users to…

2022

Normalized Contrastive Learning for Text-Video Retrieval

EMNLP 2022main

Cross-modal contrastive learning has led the recent advances in multimodal retrieval with its simplicity and effectiveness. In this work, however, we reveal that cross-modal contrastive learning suffers from incorrect normalization of the sum retrieval probabilities of each text or video instance. S…

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