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We propose a weakly supervised approach for creating maps using free-form textual descriptions. We refer to this work of creating textual maps as zero-shot mapping. Prior works have approached mapping tasks by developing models that predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Aayush Dhakal , Adeel Ahmad , Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Hannah Kerner , Nathan Jacobs

From paired image-text training to text-only training for image captioning, the pursuit of relaxing the requirements for high-cost and large-scale annotation of good quality data remains consistent. In this paper, we propose Text-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qing Zhou , Junlin Huang , Qiang Li , Junyu Gao , Qi Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated great zero-shot performance for matching images and text. However, it is still challenging to adapt vision-lanaguage pretrained models like CLIP to compositional image and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kenan Jiang , Xuehai He , Ruize Xu , Xin Eric Wang

Image captioning has emerged as an interesting research field in recent years due to its broad application scenarios. The traditional paradigm of image captioning relies on paired image-caption datasets to train the model in a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiahui Gao , Yi Zhou , Philip L. H. Yu , Shafiq Joty , Jiuxiang Gu

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

Text-guided image editing and generation methods have diverse real-world applications. However, text-guided infinite image synthesis faces several challenges. First, there is a lack of text-image paired datasets with high-resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Soyeong Kwon , Taegyeong Lee , Taehwan Kim

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Zero-shot captioners are recently proposed models that utilize common-space vision-language representations to caption images without relying on paired image-text data. To caption an image, they proceed by textually decoding a text-aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lorenzo Bianchi , Giacomo Pacini , Fabio Carrara , Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Zero-shot learning aims to recognize unseen objects using their semantic representations. Most existing works use visual attributes labeled by humans, not suitable for large-scale applications. In this paper, we revisit the use of documents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jihyung Kil , Wei-Lun Chao

Generating shapes using natural language can enable new ways of imagining and creating the things around us. While significant recent progress has been made in text-to-image generation, text-to-shape generation remains a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Aditya Sanghi , Hang Chu , Joseph G. Lambourne , Ye Wang , Chin-Yi Cheng , Marco Fumero , Kamal Rahimi Malekshan

In the field of vision-language contrastive learning, models such as CLIP capitalize on matched image-caption pairs as positive examples and leverage within-batch non-matching pairs as negatives. This approach has led to remarkable outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Maxwell Aladago , Lorenzo Torresani , Soroush Vosoughi

State-of-the-art approaches for image captioning require supervised training data consisting of captions with paired image data. These methods are typically unable to use unsupervised data such as textual data with no corresponding images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wenhu Chen , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Current state-of-the-art methods for text-to-shape generation either require supervised training using a labeled dataset of pre-defined 3D shapes, or perform expensive inference-time optimization of implicit neural representations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Kelly O. Marshall , Minh Pham , Ameya Joshi , Anushrut Jignasu , Aditya Balu , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Chinmay Hegde

Using natural language as a supervision for training visual recognition models holds great promise. Recent works have shown that if such supervision is used in the form of alignment between images and captions in large training datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Ajinkya Tejankar , Maziar Sanjabi , Bichen Wu , Saining Xie , Madian Khabsa , Hamed Pirsiavash , Hamed Firooz

Automatically synthesizing figures from text captions is a compelling capability. However, achieving high geometric precision and editability requires representing figures as graphics programs in languages like TikZ, and aligned training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jonas Belouadi , Eddy Ilg , Margret Keuper , Hideki Tanaka , Masao Utiyama , Raj Dabre , Steffen Eger , Simone Paolo Ponzetto

There are a thousand ways to caption an image. Contrastive Language Pretraining (CLIP) on the other hand, works by mapping an image and its caption to a single vector -- limiting how well CLIP-like models can represent the diverse ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Samuel Lavoie , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Mahmoud Assran , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Aaron Courville , Nicolas Ballas

Recent text-to-video generation approaches rely on computationally heavy training and require large-scale video datasets. In this paper, we introduce a new task of zero-shot text-to-video generation and propose a low-cost approach (without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Levon Khachatryan , Andranik Movsisyan , Vahram Tadevosyan , Roberto Henschel , Zhangyang Wang , Shant Navasardyan , Humphrey Shi

When trained on large-scale datasets, image captioning models can understand the content of images from a general domain but often fail to generate accurate, detailed captions. To improve performance, pretraining-and-finetuning has been a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Taehoon Kim , Mark Marsden , Pyunghwan Ahn , Sangyun Kim , Sihaeng Lee , Alessandra Sala , Seung Hwan Kim

Treating texts as images, combining prompts with textual labels for prompt tuning, and leveraging the alignment properties of CLIP have been successfully applied in zero-shot multi-label image recognition. Nonetheless, relying solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haonan Xu , Dian Chao , Xiangyu Wu , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) has attracted increasing attention recently. With a large amount of image-text pairs, VLP models trained with contrastive loss have achieved impressive performance in various tasks, especially the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shipeng Yan , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Jianhua Han , Tinne Tuytelaars , Zhenguo Li , Xuming He