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Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models have limited language understanding, often exhibiting a "bag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Alexandros Xenos , Anestis Zaganidis , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

In multimodal learning, CLIP has emerged as the de-facto approach for mapping different modalities into a shared latent space by bringing semantically similar representations closer while pushing apart dissimilar ones. However, CLIP-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Eleonora Grassucci , Giordano Cicchetti , Danilo Comminiello

Text-to-Image models have introduced a remarkable leap in the evolution of machine learning, demonstrating high-quality synthesis of images from a given text-prompt. However, these powerful pretrained models still lack control handles that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Andrey Voynov , Kfir Aberman , Daniel Cohen-Or

Contrastive Language and Image Pairing (CLIP), a transformative method in multimedia retrieval, typically trains two neural networks concurrently to generate joint embeddings for text and image pairs. However, when applied directly, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Konstantin Schall , Kai Uwe Barthel , Nico Hezel , Klaus Jung

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can now generate photo-realistic images. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN internally conditioned on a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-10 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

We show that pre-trained Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) such as StyleGAN and BigGAN can be used as a latent bank to improve the performance of image super-resolution. While most existing perceptual-oriented approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xiangyu Xu , Xintao Wang , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of large-scale pre-training frameworks that can extract multi-modal representations in a unified form and achieve promising performances when transferred to downstream tasks. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xuran Pan , Tianzhu Ye , Dongchen Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

We explore and analyze the latent style space of StyleGAN2, a state-of-the-art architecture for image generation, using models pretrained on several different datasets. We first show that StyleSpace, the space of channel-wise style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zongze Wu , Dani Lischinski , Eli Shechtman

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved remarkable success across various downstream tasks, but such gains are largely driven by scaling up on training data. Yet, literature methods treat image-text pairs as isolated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wenbo Lu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a simple yet effective pre-training paradigm, successfully introduces text supervision to vision models. It has shown promising results across various tasks due to its generalizability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihao Zhao , Yuxiao Liu , Han Wu , Mei Wang , Yonghao Li , Sheng Wang , Lin Teng , Disheng Liu , Zhiming Cui , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen

Image cropping has progressed tremendously under the data-driven paradigm. However, current approaches do not account for the intentions of the user, which is an issue especially when the composition of the input image is complex. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhihang Zhong , Mingxi Cheng , Zhirong Wu , Yuhui Yuan , Yinqiang Zheng , Ji Li , Han Hu , Stephen Lin , Yoichi Sato , Imari Sato

We propose a novel method, StyLitGAN, for relighting and resurfacing generated images in the absence of labeled data. Our approach generates images with realistic lighting effects, including cast shadows, soft shadows, inter-reflections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Anand Bhattad , D. A. Forsyth

This work addresses the problem of discovering non-linear interpretable paths in the latent space of pre-trained GANs in a model-agnostic manner. In the proposed method, the discovery is driven by a set of pairs of natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Christos Tzelepis , James Oldfield , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains highly challenging in cluttered or occluded scenes. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Tang , Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Jiewen Lai , Chi Kit Ng , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Hongliang Ren

High-quality, diverse, and photorealistic images can now be generated by unconditional GANs (e.g., StyleGAN). However, limited options exist to control the generation process using (semantic) attributes, while still preserving the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Rameen Abdal , Peihao Zhu , Niloy Mitra , Peter Wonka

Contrastive Language--Image Pre-training (CLIP) has manifested remarkable improvements in zero-shot classification and cross-modal vision-language tasks. Yet, from a geometrical point of view, the CLIP embedding space has been found to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sedigheh Eslami , Gerard de Melo

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable success in various image tasks. However, how to extend CLIP with effective temporal modeling is still an open and crucial problem. Existing factorized or joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shuyuan Tu , Qi Dai , Zuxuan Wu , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Han Hu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Advancements in generative models have sparked significant interest in generating images while adhering to specific structural guidelines. Scene graph to image generation is one such task of generating images which are consistent with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rameshwar Mishra , A V Subramanyam

In this paper, we propose a novel translation model, UniTranslator, for transforming representations between visually distinct domains under conditions of limited training data and significant visual differences. The main idea behind our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yong Du , Jiahui Zhan , Xinzhe Li , Junyu Dong , Sheng Chen , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Shengfeng He

As research on image inversion advances, the process is generally divided into two stages. The first step is Image Embedding, involves using an encoder or optimization procedure to embed an image and obtain its corresponding latent code.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xuekun Zhao , Pu Cao , Xiaoya Yang , Mingjian Zhang , Lu Yang , Qing Song