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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign semantic labels to each pixel without being constrained by a predefined set of categories. While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in zero-shot classification, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dengke Zhang , Fagui Liu , Quan Tang

This paper presents a simple yet effective framework MaskCLIP, which incorporates a newly proposed masked self-distillation into contrastive language-image pretraining. The core idea of masked self-distillation is to distill representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xiaoyi Dong , Jianmin Bao , Yinglin Zheng , Ting Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Hao Yang , Ming Zeng , Weiming Zhang , Lu Yuan , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Nenghai Yu

Extending CLIP models to semantic segmentation remains challenging due to the misalignment between their image-level pre-training objectives and the pixel-level visual understanding required for dense prediction. While prior efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jinxin Zhou , Jiachen Jiang , Zhihui Zhu

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

Recently, large-scale Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has attracted unprecedented attention for its impressive zero-shot recognition ability and excellent transferability to downstream tasks. However, CLIP is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yangguang Li , Feng Liang , Lichen Zhao , Yufeng Cui , Wanli Ouyang , Jing Shao , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan

Inspired by the remarkable zero-shot generalization capacity of vision-language pre-trained model, we seek to leverage the supervision from CLIP model to alleviate the burden of data labeling. However, such supervision inevitably contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Junchu Huang , Weijie Chen , Shicai Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Yueting Zhuang

Open-vocabulary dense prediction tasks including object detection and image segmentation have been advanced by the success of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). CLIP models, particularly those incorporating vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Xiangtai Li , Wentao Liu , Chen Change Loy

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is an approach that has advanced research and applications in computer vision, fueling modern recognition systems and generative models. We believe that the main ingredient to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hu Xu , Saining Xie , Xiaoqing Ellen Tan , Po-Yao Huang , Russell Howes , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Ghosh , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

We present Fast Language-Image Pre-training (FLIP), a simple and more efficient method for training CLIP. Our method randomly masks out and removes a large portion of image patches during training. Masking allows us to learn from more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yanghao Li , Haoqi Fan , Ronghang Hu , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Kaiming He

Despite the significant progress in deep learning for dense visual recognition problems, such as semantic segmentation, traditional methods are constrained by fixed class sets. Meanwhile, vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Sina Hajimiri , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

Open-vocabulary video instance segmentation strives to segment and track instances belonging to an open set of categories in a videos. The vision-language model Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown robust zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Zhu , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Shuangming Yang , Yanwei Pang

Recent advances in foundational Vision Language Models (VLMs) have reshaped the evaluation paradigm in computer vision tasks. These foundational models, especially CLIP, have accelerated research in open-vocabulary computer vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 M. Arda Aydın , Efe Mert Çırpar , Elvin Abdinli , Gozde Unal , Yusuf H. Sahin

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) is a popular method for learning multimodal latent spaces with well-organized semantics. Despite its wide range of applications, CLIP's latent space is known to fail at handling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Raphi Kang , Yue Song , Georgia Gkioxari , Pietro Perona

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves promising results in 2D zero-shot and few-shot learning. Despite the impressive performance in 2D, applying CLIP to help the learning in 3D scene understanding has yet to be explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Yikang Li , Yuenan Hou , Yu Qiao , Wenping Wang

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP to downstream tasks is often necessary to optimize their performance. However, a major obstacle is the limited availability of labeled data. We study the use of pseudolabels, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cristina Menghini , Andrew Delworth , Stephen H. Bach

In the era of foundation models, CLIP has emerged as a powerful tool for aligning text & visual modalities into a common embedding space. However, the alignment objective used to train CLIP often results in subpar visual features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mohamed Fazli Imam , Rufael Fedaku Marew , Jameel Hassan , Mustansar Fiaz , Alham Fikri Aji , Hisham Cholakkal

Recently, CLIP has been applied to pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks via a two-stage scheme. The general idea is to first generate class-agnostic region proposals and then feed the cropped proposal regions to CLIP to utilize its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ziqin Zhou , Bowen Zhang , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu , Yifan Liu

Pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, show promising zero-shot performance across a wide variety of datasets. For closed-set classification tasks, however, there is an inherent limitation: CLIP image encoders are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Piyapat Saranrittichai , Mauricio Munoz , Volker Fischer , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi

Large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot image recognition, yet their predictions remain largely opaque to human understanding. In contrast, Concept Bottleneck Models provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Onat Ozdemir , Anders Christensen , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata , Emre Akbas