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Foundation models have recently gained tremendous popularity in medical image analysis. State-of-the-art methods leverage either paired image-text data via vision-language pre-training or unpaired image data via self-supervised pre-training…

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Existing language and vision models achieve impressive performance in image-text understanding. Yet, it is an open question to what extent they can be used for language understanding in 3D environments and whether they implicitly acquire 3D…

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Controllable image captioning models generate human-like image descriptions, enabling some kind of control over the generated captions. This paper focuses on controlling the caption length, i.e. a short and concise description or a long and…

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Is vision good enough for language? Recent advancements in multimodal models primarily stem from the powerful reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, the visual component typically depends only on the instance-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Shengbang Tong , Zhuang Liu , Yuexiang Zhai , Yi Ma , Yann LeCun , Saining Xie

Large-scale multi-modal contrastive learning frameworks like CLIP typically require a large amount of image-text samples for training. However, these samples are always collected continuously in real scenarios. This paper discusses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zixuan Ni , Longhui Wei , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Qi Tian

Performant vision-language (VL) models like CLIP represent captions using a single vector. How much information about language is lost in this bottleneck? We first curate CompPrompts, a set of increasingly compositional image captions that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amita Kamath , Jack Hessel , Kai-Wei Chang

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

With the advent of large-scale pre-trained models, interest in adapting and exploiting them for continual learning scenarios has grown. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xialei Liu , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Jia-wen Xiao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ming-Ming Cheng

We explore social perception of human faces in CLIP, a widely used open-source vision-language model. To this end, we compare the similarity in CLIP embeddings between different textual prompts and a set of face images. Our textual prompts…

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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown great promise in pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks. However, existing approaches utilizing CLIP's text and patch embeddings to generate semantic masks often misidentify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Shengju Qian , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Discriminativeness is a desirable feature of image captions: captions should describe the characteristic details of input images. However, recent high-performing captioning models, which are trained with reinforcement learning (RL), tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Ukyo Honda , Taro Watanabe , Yuji Matsumoto

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

Visual perceptual tasks aim to predict human judgment of images (e.g., emotions invoked by images, image quality assessment). Unlike objective tasks such as object/scene recognition, perceptual tasks rely on subjective human assessments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Amit Zalcher , Navve Wasserman , Roman Beliy , Oliver Heinimann , Michal Irani

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is a popular foundation model, supporting from zero-shot classification, retrieval to encoders for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although CLIP is successfully trained on…

Binary code representation learning has shown significant performance in binary analysis tasks. But existing solutions often have poor transferability, particularly in few-shot and zero-shot scenarios where few or no training samples are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hao Wang , Zeyu Gao , Chao Zhang , Zihan Sha , Mingyang Sun , Yuchen Zhou , Wenyu Zhu , Wenju Sun , Han Qiu , Xi Xiao

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a foundation model and has been applied to various vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent works indicate that CLIP falls short in distinguishing detailed differences in images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinqi Li , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Modern image captioning models are usually trained with text similarity objectives. However, since reference captions in public datasets often describe the most salient common objects, models trained with text similarity objectives tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jaemin Cho , Seunghyun Yoon , Ajinkya Kale , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal

The process of transforming input images into corresponding textual explanations stands as a crucial and complex endeavor within the domains of computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we propose an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chang Che , Qunwei Lin , Xinyu Zhao , Jiaxin Huang , Liqiang Yu

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…

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