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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingwen Hu , Heng Liu , Zhedong Zheng , Ping Liu

Current semantic segmentation methods focus only on mining "local" context, i.e., dependencies between pixels within individual images, by context-aggregation modules (e.g., dilated convolution, neural attention) or structure-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Fisher Yu , Jifeng Dai , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Large-scale vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive open-vocabulary capabilities for image-level tasks, excelling in recognizing what objects are present. However, they struggle with pixel-level recognition tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Heeseong Shin , Chaehyun Kim , Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

The scarcity of annotated data has sparked significant interest in unsupervised pre-training methods that leverage medical reports as auxiliary signals for medical visual representation learning. However, existing research overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zhe Li , Laurence T. Yang , Bocheng Ren , Xin Nie , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has achieved excellent performance over a wide range of tasks. However, the effectiveness of CLIP heavily relies on a substantial corpus of pre-training data, resulting in notable consumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kaicheng Yang , Tiancheng Gu , Xiang An , Haiqiang Jiang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Recent advances in vision language models (VLM) have been driven by contrastive models such as CLIP, which learn to associate visual information with their corresponding text descriptions. However, these models have limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Rim Assouel , Pietro Astolfi , Florian Bordes , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero-Soriano

This paper addresses text-supervised semantic segmentation, aiming to learn a model capable of segmenting arbitrary visual concepts within images by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing methods have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ji-Jia Wu , Andy Chia-Hao Chang , Chieh-Yu Chuang , Chun-Pei Chen , Yu-Lun Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Hou-Ning Hu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Yen-Yu Lin

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is an advanced vision-language task that involves identifying and segmenting objects within an image as described by free-form text descriptions. While previous studies focused on aligning visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Song Park , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Hyunjung Shim

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

Learning visual representations is foundational for a broad spectrum of downstream tasks. Although recent vision-language contrastive models, such as CLIP and SigLIP, have achieved impressive zero-shot performance via large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yin Xie , Kaicheng Yang , Xiang An , Kun Wu , Yongle Zhao , Weimo Deng , Zimin Ran , Yumeng Wang , Ziyong Feng , Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

The learning objective of vision-language approach of CLIP does not effectively account for the noisy many-to-many correspondences found in web-harvested image captioning datasets, which contributes to its compute and data inefficiency. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alex Andonian , Shixing Chen , Raffay Hamid

In this paper, we explore the potential of the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model in scene text recognition (STR), and establish a novel Symmetrical Linguistic Feature Distillation framework (named CLIP-OCR) to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zixiao Wang , Hongtao Xie , Yuxin Wang , Jianjun Xu , Boqiang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Large vision-language contrastive models (VLCMs), such as CLIP, have become foundational, demonstrating remarkable success across a variety of downstream tasks. Despite their advantages, these models, akin to other foundational systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haocheng Dai , Sarang Joshi

The Visual Language Model, known for its robust cross-modal capabilities, has been extensively applied in various computer vision tasks. In this paper, we explore the use of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), a vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Huazhong Zhao , Lei Qi , Xin Geng

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the object in an image uniquely referred to by a natural language expression. However, RIS training often contains hard-to-align and instance-specific visual signals; optimizing on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongfei Chen , Shuo Yang , Yuguang Yang , Linlin Yang , Runtang Guo , Changbai Li , He Long , Chunyu Xie , Dawei Leng , Baochang Zhang

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Contrastive image-text models such as CLIP form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art systems. While they excel at recognizing common generic concepts, they still struggle on fine-grained entities which are rare, or even absent from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly improved performance in various vision-language tasks by expanding the dataset with image-text pairs obtained from websites. This paper further explores CLIP from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng