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CLIP is a powerful and widely used tool for understanding images in the context of natural language descriptions to perform nuanced tasks. However, it does not offer application-specific fine-grained and structured understanding, due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ada-Astrid Balauca , Danda Pani Paudel , Kristina Toutanova , Luc Van Gool

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval and zero-shot classification but struggles with fine-grained understanding due to its focus on coarse-grained short captions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chunyu Xie , Bin Wang , Fanjing Kong , Jincheng Li , Dawei Liang , Gengshen Zhang , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) uses contrastive learning from noise image-text pairs to excel at recognizing a wide array of candidates, yet its focus on broad associations hinders the precision in distinguishing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ziyu Liu , Zeyi Sun , Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

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

While the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining(CLIP) model has achieved remarkable success in a variety of downstream vison language understanding tasks, enhancing its capability for fine-grained image-text alignment remains an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yicheng Xiao , Yu Chen , Haoxuan Ma , Jiale Hong , Caorui Li , Lingxiang Wu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

Existing vision-text contrastive learning like CLIP aims to match the paired image and caption embeddings while pushing others apart, which improves representation transferability and supports zero-shot prediction. However, medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zifeng Wang , Zhenbang Wu , Dinesh Agarwal , Jimeng Sun

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising results across various tasks due to its generalizability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihao Zhao , Yuxiao Liu , Han Wu , Mei Wang , Yonghao Li , Sheng Wang , Lin Teng , Disheng Liu , Zhiming Cui , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has achieved remarkable success, leading to rapid advancements in multimodal studies. However, CLIP faces a notable challenge in terms of inefficient data utilization. It relies on a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yu Zhang , Qi Zhang , Zixuan Gong , Yiwei Shi , Yepeng Liu , Duoqian Miao , Yang Liu , Ke Liu , Kun Yi , Wei Fan , Liang Hu , Changwei Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models are able to capture the semantic relationship of images and texts and have enabled a wide range of applications, from image retrieval to classification. These models are trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Calvin Metzger

Contrastive Language and Image Pairing (CLIP), a transformative method in multimedia retrieval, typically trains two neural networks concurrently to generate joint embeddings for text and image pairs. However, when applied directly, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Konstantin Schall , Kai Uwe Barthel , Nico Hezel , Klaus Jung

Contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, have garnered considerable attention for various downstream tasks, mainly due to the remarkable ability of the learned features for generalization. However, the features they learned often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

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

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) Model is a recently proposed large-scale pre-train model which attracts increasing attention in the computer vision community. Benefiting from its gigantic image-text training set, the CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yuxuan Ding , Lingqiao Liu , Chunna Tian , Jingyuan Yang , Haoxuan Ding

The success of large-scale contrastive vision-language pretraining (CLIP) has benefited both visual recognition and multimodal content understanding. The concise design brings CLIP the advantage in inference efficiency against other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shijie Geng , Jianbo Yuan , Yu Tian , Yuxiao Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

The tremendous success of CLIP (Radford et al., 2021) has promoted the research and application of contrastive learning for vision-language pretraining. In this work, we construct a large-scale dataset of image-text pairs in Chinese, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 An Yang , Junshu Pan , Junyang Lin , Rui Men , Yichang Zhang , Jingren Zhou , Chang Zhou

Contrastive vision-language pre-training frameworks such as CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across a range of vision-language tasks. Recent studies have shown that aligning individual text tokens with specific image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Masaki Kawamura , Nakamasa Inoue , Rintaro Yanagi , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Rio Yokota

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown remarkable generalization on "zero-shot" training and has applied to many downstream tasks. We explore the adaptation of CLIP to achieve a more efficient and generalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Qiang Wang , Junlong Du , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated strong zero-shot performance across diverse downstream text-image tasks. Existing CLIP methods typically optimize a contrastive objective using negative samples drawn from each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Haotian Sun , Yitong Li , Yuchen Zhuang , Niao He , Hanjun Dai , Bo Dai

The continual learning setting aims to learn new tasks over time without forgetting the previous ones. The literature reports several significant efforts to tackle this problem with limited or no access to previous task data. Among such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Vishal Thengane , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Khan