Vertical alignment of subfigures LATEX

Question

I am working on my thesis and I am struggling with placing 2 images next to each other, so that the second image would be centered vertically along the first one. I was also try

Answer 1

Another solution (which works with the subcaption package is

\begin{figure}[p]
        \centering
        \begin{subfigure}{.49\linewidth}
            \centering
            \caption{Large Picture}
            \includegraphics{LARGEPIC}
        \end{subfigure}
        \hfill
        \begin{subfigure}{.49\linewidth}
            \centering
            \caption{SMALL PIC}
            \includegraphics{small picture}
            \begin{minipage}{.1cm}
            \vfill
            \end{minipage}
        \end{subfigure} 
        \caption{Two pictures}
\end{figure}

The \vfill alone does not work, that's why it is put into the minipage