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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been shown to learn visual representations with great transferability, which achieves promising accuracy for zero-shot classification. To further improve its downstream performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Longtian Qiu , Xianzheng Ma , Xupeng Miao , Xuming He , Bin Cui

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves promising results in 2D zero-shot and few-shot learning. Despite the impressive performance in 2D, applying CLIP to help the learning in 3D scene understanding has yet to be explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Yikang Li , Yuenan Hou , Yu Qiao , Wenping Wang

For video captioning, "pre-training and fine-tuning" has become a de facto paradigm, where ImageNet Pre-training (INP) is usually used to encode the video content, then a task-oriented network is fine-tuned from scratch to cope with caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Bang Yang , Tong Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Since the publication of CLIP, the approach of using InfoNCE loss for contrastive pre-training has become widely popular for bridging two or more modalities. Despite its wide adoption, CLIP's original design choices of L2 normalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jason Chuan-Chih Chou , Nahid Alam

Recent approaches have shown that large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP can improve semantic segmentation performance. These methods typically aim for pixel-level vision-language alignment, but often rely on low resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Anurag Das , Xinting Hu , Li Jiang , Bernt Schiele

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models excel in zero-shot classification, yet face challenges in complex multi-object scenarios. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of CLIP's limitations in these contexts using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Reza Abbasi , Ali Nazari , Aminreza Sefid , Mohammadali Banayeeanzade , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Pretraining general-purpose visual features has become a crucial part of tackling many computer vision tasks. While one can learn such features on the extensively-annotated ImageNet dataset, recent approaches have looked at ways to allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Julien Perez , Diane Larlus

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), which excels at abstracting open-world representations across domains and modalities, has become a foundation for a variety of vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent studies reveal that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Wenxuan Wang , Quan Sun , Fan Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Jing Liu , Xinlong Wang

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…

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) is an efficient method for learning computer vision tasks from natural language supervision that has powered a recent breakthrough in deep learning due to its zero-shot transfer capabilities. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Arnau Martí Sarri , Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez

Likelihood approximations for images are not trivial to compute and can be useful in many applications. We examine the use of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) to assess the likelihood of images and captions. We introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Roy Betser , Meir Yossef Levi , Guy Gilboa

Most existing vision-language pre-training (VLP) approaches adopt cross-modal masked language modeling (CMLM) to learn vision-language associations. However, we find that CMLM is insufficient for this purpose according to our observations:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yunhao Gou , Tom Ko , Hansi Yang , James Kwok , Yu Zhang , Mingxuan Wang

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has achieved remarkable success, but its performance can degrade when fine-tuned in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. We model the prediction process using a Structural Causal Model (SCM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zeen Song , Siyu Zhao , Xingyu Zhang , Jiangmeng Li , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-training has shown significant progress in visual representation learning. Unlike traditional visual systems trained by a fixed set of discrete labels, a new paradigm was introduced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Peng Gao , Shijie Geng , Renrui Zhang , Teli Ma , Rongyao Fang , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao

Image Aesthetics Assessment (IAA) is a challenging task due to its subjective nature and expensive manual annotations. Recent large-scale vision-language models, such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), have shown their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Liwu Xu , Jinjin Xu , Yuzhe Yang , Xilu Wang , Yijie Huang , Yaqian Li

Pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP have shown excellent generalization ability to downstream tasks. However, they are sensitive to the choice of input text prompts and require careful selection of prompt templates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recent advancements in image-text matching have been notable, yet prevailing models predominantly cater to broad queries and struggle with accommodating fine-grained query intention. In this paper, we work towards the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yaxiong Wang , Yujiao Wu , Lianwei Wu , Lechao Cheng , Zhun Zhong , Meng Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has achieved widely applications in various computer vision tasks, e.g., text-to-image generation, Image-Text retrieval and Image captioning. However, CLIP suffers from high memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Kangjie Zhang , Wenxuan Huang , Xin Zhou , Boxiang Zhou , Dejia Song , Yuan Xie , Baochang Zhang , Lizhuang Ma , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu , Shaohui Lin