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Understanding images without explicit supervision has become an important problem in computer vision. In this paper, we address image captioning by generating language descriptions of scenes without learning from annotated pairs of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Nassir Navab

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

Vision-language models (VLMs) can learn high-quality representations from a large-scale training dataset of image-text pairs. Prompt learning is a popular approach to fine-tuning VLM to adapt them to downstream tasks. Despite the satisfying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhifang Zhang , Yuwei Niu , Xin Liu , Beibei Li

In recent years, vision and language pre-training (VLP) models have advanced the state-of-the-art results in a variety of cross-modal downstream tasks. Aligning cross-modal semantics is claimed to be one of the essential capabilities of VLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Mianzhi Pan , Jianbing Zhang , Shujian Huang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

In this paper, we present token labeling -- a new training objective for training high-performance vision transformers (ViTs). Different from the standard training objective of ViTs that computes the classification loss on an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Li Yuan , Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Xiaojie Jin , Anran Wang , Jiashi Feng

We introduce a novel sequential modeling approach which enables learning a Large Vision Model (LVM) without making use of any linguistic data. To do this, we define a common format, "visual sentences", in which we can represent raw images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yutong Bai , Xinyang Geng , Karttikeya Mangalam , Amir Bar , Alan Yuille , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Alexei A Efros

Can we complete pre-training of Vision Transformers (ViT) without natural images and human-annotated labels? Although a pre-trained ViT seems to heavily rely on a large-scale dataset and human-annotated labels, recent large-scale datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Kodai Nakashima , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Asato Matsumoto , Kenji Iwata , Nakamasa Inoue

Understanding realistic visual scene images together with language descriptions is a fundamental task towards generic visual understanding. Previous works have shown compelling comprehensive results by building hierarchical structures for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Chao Lou , Wenjuan Han , Yuhuan Lin , Zilong Zheng

Humans can visualize new and unknown concepts from their natural language description, based on their experience and previous knowledge. Insipired by this, we present a way to extend this ability to Vision-Language Models (VLMs), teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Luca Molinaro , Massimiliano Ciranni , Emanuele Aiello , Vito Paolo Pastore , Marco Grangetto

Vision language models (VLMs) are AI systems paired with both language and vision encoders to process multimodal input. They are capable of performing complex semantic tasks such as automatic captioning, but it remains an open question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tyler Tran , Sangeet Khemlani , J. G. Trafton

Current methods for learning visually grounded language from videos often rely on text annotation, such as human generated captions or machine generated automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. In this work, we introduce the…

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) on large-scale image-text pairs has achieved huge success for the cross-modal downstream tasks. The most existing pre-training methods mainly adopt a two-step training procedure, which firstly employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Chenliang Li , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang , Wenming Xiao , Fei Huang

Deep neural networks have achieved great successes on the image captioning task. However, most of the existing models depend heavily on paired image-sentence datasets, which are very expensive to acquire. In this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

Self-supervised learning has become increasingly important to leverage the abundance of unlabeled data available on platforms like YouTube. Whereas most existing approaches learn low-level representations, we propose a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chen Sun , Austin Myers , Carl Vondrick , Kevin Murphy , Cordelia Schmid

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr

In recent years, advancements in representation learning and language models have propelled Automated Captioning (AC) to new heights, enabling the generation of human-level descriptions. Leveraging these advancements, we propose AVCap, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Jongsuk Kim , Jiwon Shin , Junmo Kim

Pre-trained vision-language models have notably accelerated progress of open-world concept recognition. Their impressive zero-shot ability has recently been transferred to multi-label image classification via prompt tuning, enabling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xuelin Zhu , Jiuxin Cao , Jian liu , Dongqi Tang , Furong Xu , Weijia Liu , Jiawei Ge , Bo Liu , Qingpei Guo , Tianyi Zhang

Recent advances in language modeling have witnessed the rise of highly desirable emergent capabilities, such as reasoning and in-context learning. However, vision models have yet to exhibit comparable progress in these areas. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jike Zhong , Yuxiang Lai , Xiaofeng Yang , Konstantinos Psounis

From the perspective of future developments in robotics, it is crucial to verify whether foundation models trained exclusively on offline data, such as images and language, can understand the robot motion. In particular, since Vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kanata Suzuki , Shota Shimizu , Tetsuya Ogata

Humans tend to decompose a sentence into different parts like \textsc{sth do sth at someplace} and then fill each part with certain content. Inspired by this, we follow the \textit{principle of modular design} to propose a novel image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xu Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Chongyang Gao , Jianfei Cai