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Neural captioners are typically trained to mimic human-generated references without optimizing for any specific communication goal, leading to problems such as the generation of vague captions. In this paper, we show that fine-tuning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Roberto Dessì , Michele Bevilacqua , Eleonora Gualdoni , Nathanael Carraz Rakotonirina , Francesca Franzon , Marco Baroni

Video Captioning (VC) is a challenging multi-modal task since it requires describing the scene in language by understanding various and complex videos. For machines, the traditional VC follows the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jianqiao Sun , Yudi Su , Hao Zhang , Ziheng Cheng , Zequn Zeng , Zhengjue Wang , Bo Chen , Xin Yuan

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) has shown remarkable zero-shot transfer capabilities in cross-modal correlation tasks such as visual classification and image retrieval. However, its performance in cross-modal generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jitao Sang

As a pioneering vision-language model, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has achieved significant success across various domains and a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks. However, the text encoders in popular CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Mothilal Asokan , Kebin Wu , Fatima Albreiki

Recent advances in image captioning have focused on scaling the data and model size, substantially increasing the cost of pre-training and finetuning. As an alternative to large models, we present SmallCap, which generates a caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Rita Ramos , Bruno Martins , Desmond Elliott , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of large-scale pre-training frameworks that can extract multi-modal representations in a unified form and achieve promising performances when transferred to downstream tasks. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xuran Pan , Tianzhu Ye , Dongchen Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Vision-language models like CLIP are widely used in zero-shot image classification due to their ability to understand various visual concepts and natural language descriptions. However, how to fully leverage CLIP's unprecedented human-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Bang An , Sicheng Zhu , Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Furong Huang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has exhibited remarkable efficacy in establishing cross-modal connections between texts and images, yielding impressive performance across a broad spectrum of downstream applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Ke Yu , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) formulates image classification as an image-to-text matching task, i.e., matching images to the corresponding natural language descriptions instead of discrete category IDs. This allows for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shuhuai Ren , Lei Li , Xuancheng Ren , Guangxiang Zhao , Xu Sun

The advent of vision-language pre-training techniques enhanced substantial progress in the development of models for image captioning. However, these models frequently produce generic captions and may omit semantically important image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Noam Rotstein , David Bensaid , Shaked Brody , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

Despite CLIP being the foundation model in numerous vision-language applications, the CLIP suffers from a severe text spotting bias. Such bias causes CLIP models to `Parrot' the visual text embedded within images while disregarding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yiqi Lin , Conghui He , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Bin Wang , Weijia Li , Mike Zheng Shou

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) involves questions that require world knowledge beyond the image to yield the correct answer. Large language models (LMs) like GPT-3 are particularly helpful for this task because of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yushi Hu , Hang Hua , Zhengyuan Yang , Weijia Shi , Noah A Smith , Jiebo Luo

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-training has shown significant progress in visual representation learning. Unlike traditional visual systems trained by a fixed set of discrete labels, a new paradigm was introduced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Peng Gao , Shijie Geng , Renrui Zhang , Teli Ma , Rongyao Fang , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

The interplay between the image and comment on a social media post is one of high importance for understanding its overall message. Recent strides in multimodal embedding models, namely CLIP, have provided an avenue forward in relating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 William Theisen , Walter Scheirer

Significant progress has been made on visual captioning, largely relying on pre-trained features and later fixed object detectors that serve as rich inputs to auto-regressive models. A key limitation of such methods, however, is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) plays an essential role in extracting valuable content information from images across diverse tasks. It aligns textual and visual modalities to comprehend the entire image, including all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zeyi Sun , Ye Fang , Tong Wu , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shu Kong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) using image-text pairs has achieved impressive results on image classification in both zero-shot and transfer learning settings. However, we show that directly applying such models to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yiwu Zhong , Jianwei Yang , Pengchuan Zhang , Chunyuan Li , Noel Codella , Liunian Harold Li , Luowei Zhou , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yin Li , Jianfeng Gao

While the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining(CLIP) model has achieved remarkable success in a variety of downstream vison language understanding tasks, enhancing its capability for fine-grained image-text alignment remains an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yicheng Xiao , Yu Chen , Haoxuan Ma , Jiale Hong , Caorui Li , Lingxiang Wu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

We propose a simple yet effective and robust method for contrastive captioning: generating discriminative captions that distinguish target images from very similar alternative distractor images. Our approach is built on a pragmatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiefu Ou , Benno Krojer , Daniel Fried