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Recently, GAN inversion methods combined with Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) enables zero-shot image manipulation guided by text prompts. However, their applications to diverse real images are still difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Gwanghyun Kim , Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

CLIP is a discriminative model trained to align images and text in a shared embedding space. Due to its multimodal structure, it serves as the backbone of many generative pipelines, where a decoder is trained to map from the shared space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Antonio D'Orazio , Maria Rosaria Briglia , Donato Crisostomi , Dario Loi , Emanuele Rodolà , Iacopo Masi

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

Editing real images authentically while also achieving cross-domain editing remains a challenge. Recent studies have focused on converting real images into latent codes and accomplishing image editing by manipulating these codes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Hai Zhang , Chunwei Wu , Guitao Cao , Hailing Wang , Wenming Cao

We introduce a new method to efficiently create text-to-image models from a pre-trained CLIP and StyleGAN. It enables text driven sampling with an existing generative model without any external data or fine-tuning. This is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Justin N. M. Pinkney , Chuan Li

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

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

Hair editing is an interesting and challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Many existing methods require well-drawn sketches or masks as conditional inputs for editing, however these interactions are neither straightforward nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tianyi Wei , Dongdong Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Jing Liao , Zhentao Tan , Lu Yuan , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Owing to the power of vision-language foundation models, e.g., CLIP, the area of image synthesis has seen recent important advances. Particularly, for style transfer, CLIP enables transferring more general and abstract styles without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zipeng Xu , Songlong Xing , Enver Sangineto , Nicu Sebe

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large-scale image-caption datasets learns representations that can achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization. However, such models require a massive amount of pre-training data. Improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Siddharth Joshi , Arnav Jain , Ali Payani , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-language model, while less attention is paid to the interpretation of CLIP. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Chenyang Zhao , Kun Wang , Janet H. Hsiao , Antoni B. Chan

The development of CLIP [Radford et al., 2021] has sparked a debate on whether language supervision can result in vision models with more transferable representations than traditional image-only methods. Our work studies this question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shibani Santurkar , Yann Dubois , Rohan Taori , Percy Liang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) stands as one of the most effective and scalable methods for training transferable vision models using paired image and text data. CLIP models are trained using contrastive loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lijie Fan , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola , Dina Katabi , Yonglong Tian

Language-image pre-training is an effective technique for learning powerful representations in general domains. However, when directly turning to person representation learning, these general pre-training methods suffer from unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jialong Zuo , Jiahao Hong , Feng Zhang , Changqian Yu , Hanyu Zhou , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Jingdong Wang

High-content screening (HCS) assays based on high-throughput microscopy techniques such as Cell Painting have enabled the interrogation of cells' morphological responses to perturbations at an unprecedented scale. The collection of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mingyu Lu , Ethan Weinberger , Chanwoo Kim , Su-In Lee

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly boosted the performance of various vision-language tasks by scaling up the dataset with image-text pairs collected from the web. However, the presence of intrinsic noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kaicheng Yang , Jiankang Deng , Xiang An , Jiawei Li , Ziyong Feng , Jia Guo , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Image enhancement is a significant research area in the fields of computer vision and image processing. In recent years, many learning-based methods for image enhancement have been developed, where the Look-up-table (LUT) has proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Weiwen Chen , Qiuhong Ke , Zinuo Li

Models leveraging both visual and textual data such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), are the backbone of many recent advances in artificial intelligence. In this work, we show that despite their versatility, such models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Matthias Freiberger , Peter Kun , Christian Igel , Anders Sundnes Løvlie , Sebastian Risi

In this paper we present a novel multi-attribute face manipulation method based on textual descriptions. Previous text-based image editing methods either require test-time optimization for each individual image or are restricted to single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Ana García del Molino , Anran Wang , Jiashi Feng , Zhiqi Shen