Hani Alomari retweeted
A 2026-27 @amazon Fellowship has been awarded to @VT_CS computer science Ph.D. student @Hanibalomari. The Amazon-VT initiative is also supporting five faculty projects. Read about their research at πtinyurl.com/3v5wkxvh
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Hani Alomari retweeted
Chris Thomas (ctr), core faculty @SanghaniCtrVT, shares pics from #CVPR2026. His grad students (l to r) @najib_haque, Zaber Hakim, Ali Asgarov, @Hanibalomari.
2 research papers from Chrisβs group at conference:
π cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2026β¦ (Highlight)
π tinyurl.com/uv58497n
π π₯³ Excited to share that my first-author paper has been accepted to #CVPR2026 π π
π Lenses: Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding π
In this work, we study how a single image can support multiple valid interpretations, and introduce π Lenses: a dataset and retrieval model that captures meaning through five interpretive perspectives: π Literal, π Figurative, π Abstract, π Emotional, and π Background.
π’ Camera-ready paper and project website coming soon! β³π»π
π Huge thanks to my advisor, Chris Thomas, for his incredible guidance and support throughout this work! A special shoutout to my co-author, Ali Asgarov, for his collaboration. π€
Can't wait to present our work in Denver and connect with others working on multimodal! β°οΈποΈ
#CVPR #CVPR2026 #Lenses #ComputerVision #VisionLanguage #MultimodalLearning #MultimodalAI #DeepLearning #CrossModalRetrieval #RepresentationLearning #OpenToWork #Internship





