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In this paper, we show that recent advances in video representation learning and pre-trained vision-language models allow for substantial improvements in self-supervised video object localization. We propose a method that first localizes…

Object localization is an important computer vision problem with a variety of applications. The lack of large scale object-level annotations and the relative abundance of image-level labels makes a compelling case for weak supervision in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Archith J. Bency , Heesung Kwon , Hyungtae Lee , S. Karthikeyan , B. S. Manjunath

CLIP models learn transferable multi-modal features via image-text contrastive learning on internet-scale data. They are widely used in zero-shot classification, multi-modal retrieval, text-to-image diffusion, and as image encoders in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Anas Mahmoud , Aldo Zaimi , Arsene Fansi Tchango , Steven L. Waslander

Feature encoding with respect to an over-complete dictionary learned by unsupervised methods, followed by spatial pyramid pooling, and linear classification, has exhibited powerful strength in various vision applications. Here we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid , Anton van den Hengel

This paper presents a novel method that leverages a visual-language model, CLIP, as a data source for zero-shot anomaly detection. Tremendous efforts have been put towards developing anomaly detectors due to their potential industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Masato Tamura

We describe a protocol to study text-to-video retrieval training with unlabeled videos, where we assume (i) no access to labels for any videos, i.e., no access to the set of ground-truth captions, but (ii) access to labeled images in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Lucas Ventura , Cordelia Schmid , Gül Varol

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semantic alignment. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hai Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

In vision-based robot localization and SLAM, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is essential. This paper addresses the problem of VPR, which involves accurately recognizing the location corresponding to a given query image. A popular approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Soojin Woo , Seong-Woo Kim

Recovering sharp images from dual-pixel (DP) pairs with disparity-dependent blur is a challenging task.~Existing blur map-based deblurring methods have demonstrated promising results. In this paper, we propose, to the best of our knowledge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Hao Yang , Liyuan Pan , Yan Yang , Richard Hartley , Miaomiao Liu

In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

Learning to localize and name object instances is a fundamental problem in vision, but state-of-the-art approaches rely on expensive bounding box supervision. While weakly supervised detection (WSOD) methods relax the need for boxes to that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Keren Ye , Mingda Zhang , Adriana Kovashka , Wei Li , Danfeng Qin , Jesse Berent

We introduce a language-grounded visual prompting method to adapt the visual encoder of vision-language models for downstream tasks. By capitalizing on language integration, we devise a parameter-efficient strategy to adjust the input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nilakshan Kunananthaseelan , Jing Zhang , Mehrtash Harandi

Photo search, the task of retrieving images based on textual queries, has witnessed significant advancements with the introduction of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) model. CLIP leverages a vision-language pre training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Naresh Kumar Lahajal , Harini S

We introduce a method to train vision-language models for remote-sensing images without using any textual annotations. Our key insight is to use co-located internet imagery taken on the ground as an intermediary for connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Meilin Kelsey Liu , Carl Vondrick , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

Given an image query, visually prompted keyword localisation (VPKL) aims to find occurrences of the depicted word in a speech collection. This can be useful when transcriptions are not available for a low-resource language (e.g. if it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leanne Nortje , Dan Oneata , Gabriel Pirlogeanu , Herman Kamper

Recently, vision-language models like CLIP have advanced the state of the art in a variety of multi-modal tasks including image captioning and caption evaluation. Many approaches leverage CLIP for cross-modal retrieval to condition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Fabian Paischer , Markus Hofmarcher , Sepp Hochreiter , Thomas Adler

Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

Building computers able to answer questions on any subject is a long standing goal of artificial intelligence. Promising progress has recently been achieved by methods that learn to map questions to logical forms or database queries. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Antoine Bordes , Jason Weston , Nicolas Usunier

Recent studies show that deep vision-only and language-only models--trained on disjoint modalities--nonetheless project their inputs into a partially aligned representational space. Yet we still lack a clear picture of where in each network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zoe Wanying He , Sean Trott , Meenakshi Khosla

We propose Probabilistic Warp Consistency, a weakly-supervised learning objective for semantic matching. Our approach directly supervises the dense matching scores predicted by the network, encoded as a conditional probability distribution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Prune Truong , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool