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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang

Despite the recent success of image-text contrastive models like CLIP and SigLIP, these models often struggle with vision-centric tasks that demand high-fidelity image understanding, such as counting, depth estimation, and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zineng Tang , Long Lian , Seun Eisape , XuDong Wang , Roei Herzig , Adam Yala , Alane Suhr , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Pre-trained vision-language models such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated a remarkable generalizability, which has enabled a wide range of applications represented by zero-shot classification. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kazuki Adachi , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Tomoki Hamagami

Recent works utilize CLIP to perform the challenging unsupervised semantic segmentation task where only images without annotations are available. However, we observe that when adopting CLIP to such a pixel-level understanding task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jingyun Wang , Guoliang Kang

Vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities, yet their adaptation to federated learning scenarios presents significant challenges, particularly regarding generalization to unseen classes. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Suraj Prasad , Anubha Pant

Contrastive learning has emerged as an efficient framework to learn multimodal representations. CLIP, a seminal work in this area, achieved impressive results by training on paired image-text data using the contrastive loss. Recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Enrico Fini , Pietro Astolfi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) serves as a de-facto standard to align images and texts. Nonetheless, the loose correlation between images and texts of web-crawled data renders the contrastive objective data inefficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jinghao Zhou , Li Dong , Zhe Gan , Lijuan Wang , Furu Wei

Prompt tuning for vision-language models such as CLIP involves optimizing the text prompts used to generate image-text pairs for specific downstream tasks. While hand-crafted or template-based prompts are generally applicable to a wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Qian Zhang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. However, there still exists a considerable performance gap between these models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel

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

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities of generating high-quality images closely aligned with textual inputs. However, the effectiveness of text guidance heavily relies on the CLIP text encoder, which is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zexi Jia , Chuanwei Huang , Hongyan Fei , Yeshuang Zhu , Zhiqiang Yuan , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

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

Scene understanding is essential for enhancing driver safety, generating human-centric explanations for Automated Vehicle (AV) decisions, and leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for retrospective driving video analysis. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Mohammed Elhenawy , Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Andry Rakotonirainy , Taqwa I. Alhadidi , Ahmed Jaber , Mohammad Abu Tami

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have shown promising performance on zero-shot visual recognition tasks by learning visual representations under natural language supervision. Recent studies attempt the use of CLIP to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hanqiu Deng , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Jinan Bao , Xingyu Li

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) delivers strong cross modal generalization by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space, yet it persistently fails at compositional reasoning over objects, attributes, and relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ziliang Chen , Tianang Xiao , Jusheng Zhang , Yongsen Zheng , Xipeng Chen

Image captioning models are usually trained according to human annotated ground-truth captions, which could generate accurate but generic captions. In this paper, we focus on generating distinctive captions that can distinguish the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Youyuan Zhang , Jiuniu Wang , Hao Wu , Wenjia Xu

Despite its prevalent use in image-text matching tasks in a zero-shot manner, CLIP has been shown to be highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations added onto images. Recent studies propose to finetune the vision encoder of CLIP with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Songlong Xing , Zhengyu Zhao , Nicu Sebe

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires a model to both classify known categories and cluster unknown categories in unlabeled data. Prior methods leveraged self-supervised pre-training combined with supervised fine-tuning on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rabah Ouldnoughi , Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira

Recently, CLIP has found practical utility in the domain of pixel-level zero-shot segmentation tasks. The present landscape features two-stage methodologies beset by issues such as intricate pipelines and elevated computational costs. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wenhao Xu , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Shibiao Xu , Li Guo , Man Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang

Large-scale pre-trained models have demonstrated impressive performance in vision and language tasks within open-world scenarios. Due to the lack of comparable pre-trained models for 3D shapes, recent methods utilize language-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Dan Song , Xinwei Fu , Ning Liu , Weizhi Nie , Wenhui Li , Lanjun Wang , You Yang , Anan Liu