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The main challenge in learning image-conditioned robotic policies is acquiring a visual representation conducive to low-level control. Due to the high dimensionality of the image space, learning a good visual representation requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Albert Yu , Adeline Foote , Raymond Mooney , Roberto Martín-Martín

Multimodal alignment between language and vision is the fundamental topic in current vision-language model research. Contrastive Captioners (CoCa), as a representative method, integrates Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ziping Ma , Furong Xu , Jian Liu , Ming Yang , Qingpei Guo

Recent advances in vision-language pre-training have enabled machines to perform better in multimodal object discrimination (e.g., image-text semantic alignment) and image synthesis (e.g., text-to-image generation). On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xiao Dong , Runhui Huang , Xiaoyong Wei , Zequn Jie , Jianxing Yu , Jian Yin , Xiaodan Liang

Recent works have advanced the performance of self-supervised representation learning by a large margin. The core among these methods is intra-image invariance learning. Two different transformations of one image instance are considered as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Haiping Wu , Xiaolong Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models excel at understanding image-text relationships but struggle with adapting to new data without forgetting prior knowledge. To address this, models are typically fine-tuned using both new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan King , Gang Li , Bobak Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

Image captioning is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, where the model predicts a textual informative caption to a given input image. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address this task. We use CLIP encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Amit H. Bermano

Pre-training vision-language models with contrastive objectives has shown promising results that are both scalable to large uncurated datasets and transferable to many downstream applications. Some following works have targeted to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Janghyeon Lee , Jongsuk Kim , Hyounguk Shon , Bumsoo Kim , Seung Hwan Kim , Honglak Lee , Junmo Kim

Recently, prompt learning has demonstrated remarkable success in adapting pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks such as image classification. However, its application to the downstream Image-Text Retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Tao Wang , Chenwei Tang , Caiyang Yu , Zhengqing Zang , Mengmi Zhang , Shudong Huang , Jiancheng Lv

While image captioning has progressed rapidly, existing works focus mainly on describing single images. In this paper, we introduce a new task, context-aware group captioning, which aims to describe a group of target images in the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Zhuowan Li , Quan Tran , Long Mai , Zhe Lin , Alan Yuille

How do two sets of images differ? Discerning set-level differences is crucial for understanding model behaviors and analyzing datasets, yet manually sifting through thousands of images is impractical. To aid in this discovery process, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Lisa Dunlap , Yuhui Zhang , Xiaohan Wang , Ruiqi Zhong , Trevor Darrell , Jacob Steinhardt , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Serena Yeung-Levy

Image captioning is a fundamental task that bridges the visual and linguistic domains, playing a critical role in pre-training Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Current state-of-the-art captioning models are typically trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Long Xing , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Jianze Liang , Qidong Huang , Jiaqi Wang , Feng Wu , Dahua Lin

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated considerable success across various vision-language tasks, such as text-to-image retrieval, where the model is required to effectively process natural language input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Hyunjae Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Handong Zhao , Quan Tran , Franck Dernoncourt , Jaewoo Kang

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

Visual domain gaps often impact object detection performance. Image-to-image translation can mitigate this effect, where contrastive approaches enable learning of the image-to-image mapping under unsupervised regimes. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Danai Triantafyllidou , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Visual Dialog is a challenging vision-language task since the visual dialog agent needs to answer a series of questions after reasoning over both the image content and dialog history. Though existing methods try to deal with the cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Feilong Chen , Xiuyi Chen , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

We propose a simple strategy for masking image patches during visual-language contrastive learning that improves the quality of the learned representations and the training speed. During each iteration of training, we randomly mask clusters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zihao Wei , Zixuan Pan , Andrew Owens

High-performance Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are heavily dependent on data quality. To advance fine-grained image recognition within MLLMs, we introduce a novel data synthesis method inspired by contrastive learning and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qirui Jiao , Daoyuan Chen , Yilun Huang , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models excel in integrating semantic information between images and text through contrastive learning techniques. It has achieved remarkable performance in various multimodal tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yifan Chen , Xiaozhen Qiao , Zhe Sun , Xuelong Li

Image retrieval from contextual descriptions (IRCD) aims to identify an image within a set of minimally contrastive candidates based on linguistically complex text. Despite the success of VLMs, they still significantly lag behind human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Honglin Lin , Siyu Li , Guoshun Nan , Chaoyue Tang , Xueting Wang , Jingxin Xu , Rong Yankai , Zhili Zhou , Yutong Gao , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

Image classification, which classifies images by pre-defined categories, has been the dominant approach to visual representation learning over the last decade. Visual learning through image-text alignment, however, has emerged to show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yixuan Wei , Yue Cao , Zheng Zhang , Zhuliang Yao , Zhenda Xie , Han Hu , Baining Guo