SCENT: Language-guided framework bridges vision and olfaction using VLMs
Researchers propose SCENT, a multimodal framework that uses language guidance from Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to align visual scenes with olfactory signals. This addresses the challenge that many olfactory cues arise from contextual environmental factors not directly visible in pixels.
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