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New SCENT framework uses language to link vision and smell

Researchers have developed a new multimodal framework called SCENT that uses language guidance to bridge the gap between visual and olfactory information. This framework leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to generate scene descriptors that capture objects, environmental context, and plausible smell cues, which then guide the learning of olfactory representations. Experiments on the New York Smells dataset show that SCENT significantly improves crossmodal retrieval tasks, outperforming vision-only baselines and achieving state-of-the-art results in smell-to-image and smell-to-text retrieval. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more sophisticated AI systems capable of understanding and interpreting sensory data beyond vision, potentially impacting fields like robotics and environmental monitoring.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper describing a new multimodal learning framework.

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New SCENT framework uses language to link vision and smell

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Eleftherios Tsonis, Xi Wang, Vicky Kalogeiton ·

    What Images Cannot Say: Language-Guided Olfactory Representation Learning

    arXiv:2607.06402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Images tell us what a scene looks like, but rarely what it would feel like to be there. While recent datasets pair visual scenes with electronic-nose measurements, aligning smell signals with images remains challenging because man…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Vicky Kalogeiton ·

    What Images Cannot Say: Language-Guided Olfactory Representation Learning

    Images tell us what a scene looks like, but rarely what it would feel like to be there. While recent datasets pair visual scenes with electronic-nose measurements, aligning smell signals with images remains challenging because many olfactory cues arise from contextual environment…