Native Association: Confidence-Aware Human Perception in the Wild with a Foundation VLM
Extracting who is where, on which team, wearing which number from a broadcast frame is typically done by stitching a detector, an OCR engine, and classifiers together -- and the stitching step swaps identities under occlusion. We make association native instead: a 0.77B vision-language model (Florence-2) is fine-tuned...