Visual Perspective
Visual perspective, encompassing the understanding and representation of viewpoints, is a burgeoning research area focusing on how humans and machines perceive and interpret visual information from different angles. Current research emphasizes improving the generalization capabilities of models like Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and developing methods to mitigate biases, particularly cultural biases, in image understanding and analysis. This work is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence, particularly in applications requiring nuanced understanding of context and diverse perspectives, such as autonomous driving, human-robot interaction, and healthcare.
Papers
Capturing Perspectives of Crowdsourced Annotators in Subjective Learning Tasks
Negar Mokhberian, Myrl G. Marmarelis, Frederic R. Hopp, Valerio Basile, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
P^3SUM: Preserving Author's Perspective in News Summarization with Diffusion Language Models
Yuhan Liu, Shangbin Feng, Xiaochuang Han, Vidhisha Balachandran, Chan Young Park, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov