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This paper introduces DeeCLIP, a novel framework for detecting AI-generated images using CLIP-ViT and fusion learning. Despite significant advancements in generative models capable of creating highly photorealistic images, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mamadou Keita , Wassim Hamidouche , Hessen Bougueffa Eutamene , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed , Abdenour Hadid

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in various downstream tasks, including Image/Video Generation, Visual Question Answering, Multimodal Chatbots, and Video Understanding. However, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ahmad Mustafa Anis , Hasnain Ali , Saquib Sarfraz

This paper introduces a plug-and-play descriptor that can be effectively adopted for image retrieval tasks without prior initialization or preparation. The description method utilizes the recently proposed Vision Transformer network while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Socratis Gkelios , Yiannis Boutalis , Savvas A. Chatzichristofis

The aim of this work is to explore the potential of pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) for universal detection of AI-generated images. We develop a lightweight detection strategy based on CLIP features and study its performance in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Riccardo Corvi , Matthias Nießner , Luisa Verdoliva

The objective in this paper is to improve the performance of text-to-image retrieval. To this end, we introduce a new framework that can boost the performance of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, so that they can be used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guanqi Zhan , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Current image retrieval systems often face domain specificity and generalization issues. This study aims to overcome these limitations by developing a computationally efficient training framework for a universal feature extractor that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Morris Florek , David Tschirschwitz , Björn Barz , Volker Rodehorst

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

Accurately recognizing a revisited place is crucial for embodied agents to localize and navigate. This requires visual representations to be distinct, despite strong variations in camera viewpoint and scene appearance. Existing visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kartik Garg , Sai Shubodh Puligilla , Shishir Kolathaya , Madhava Krishna , Sourav Garg

The 2021 Image Similarity Challenge introduced a dataset to serve as a new benchmark to evaluate recent image copy detection methods. There were 200 participants to the competition. This paper presents a quantitative and qualitative…

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

This work explores text-to-image retrieval for queries that specify or describe a semantic category. While vision-and-language models (VLMs) like CLIP offer a straightforward open-vocabulary solution, they map text and images to distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Faizan Farooq Khan , Vladan Stojnić , Zakaria Laskar , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Giorgos Tolias

Modern image retrieval methods typically rely on fine-tuning pre-trained encoders to extract image-level descriptors. However, the most widely used models are pre-trained on ImageNet-1K with limited classes. The pre-trained feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Xiang An , Jiankang Deng , Kaicheng Yang , Jaiwei Li , Ziyong Feng , Jia Guo , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

Image clustering is an important and open-challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have been proposed to solve the image clustering task, they only explore images and uncover clusters according to the image features, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaotian Cai , Liping Qiu , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Longteng Chen

The success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in various computer vision tasks has promoted the ever-increasing prevalence of this convolution-free network. The fact that ViT works on image patches makes it potentially relevant to the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Yingyi Chen , Xi Shen , Yahui Liu , Qinghua Tao , Johan A. K. Suykens

Vision-language pretraining on large datasets of images-text pairs is one of the main building blocks of current Vision-Language Models. While with additional training, these models excel in various downstream tasks, including visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Saurabh Srivastava , Jana Košecká

Learning generalizable policies that can adapt to unseen environments remains challenging in visual Reinforcement Learning (RL). Existing approaches try to acquire a robust representation via diversifying the appearances of in-domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhecheng Yuan , Zhengrong Xue , Bo Yuan , Xueqian Wang , Yi Wu , Yang Gao , Huazhe Xu

Detecting spliced images is one of the emerging challenges in computer vision. Unlike prior methods that focus on detecting low-level artifacts generated during the manipulation process, we use an image retrieval approach to tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Bor-Chun Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Larry S. Davis , Ser-Nam Lim

Image relighting is attracting increasing interest due to its various applications. From a research perspective, image relighting can be exploited to conduct both image normalization for domain adaptation, and also for data augmentation. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Majed El Helou , Ruofan Zhou , Sabine Susstrunk , Radu Timofte

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

Understanding the limitations and weaknesses of state-of-the-art models in artificial intelligence is crucial for their improvement and responsible application. In this research, we focus on CLIP, a model renowned for its integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ayush Ranjan , Daniel Wen , Karthik Bhat