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Learning generalizable reward functions is a core challenge in embodied intelligence. Recent work leverages contrastive vision language models (VLMs) to obtain dense, domain-agnostic rewards without human supervision. These methods adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Simon Roy , Samuel Barbeau , Giovanni Beltrame , Christian Desrosiers , Nicolas Thome

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) highly depends on a good semantic embedding to connect the seen and unseen classes. Recently, distributed word embeddings (DWE) pre-trained from large text corpus have become a popular choice to draw such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Ruizhi Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

This paper proposes an introspective deep metric learning (IDML) framework for uncertainty-aware comparisons of images. Conventional deep metric learning methods focus on learning a discriminative embedding to describe the semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Recently, a series of Image-Text Matching (ITM) methods achieve impressive performance. However, we observe that most existing ITM models suffer from gradients vanishing at the beginning of training, which makes these models prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zheng Li , Caili Guo , Xin Wang , Zerun Feng , Zhongtian Du

To solve deep metric learning problems and producing feature embeddings, current methodologies will commonly use a triplet model to minimise the relative distance between samples from the same class and maximise the relative distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Ben Harwood , Vijay Kumar B G , Gustavo Carneiro , Ian Reid , Tom Drummond

Text-visual (or called semantic-visual) embedding is a central problem in vision-language research. It typically involves mapping of an image and a text description to a common feature space through a CNN image encoder and a RNN language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Pranav Aggarwal , Zhe Lin , Baldo Faieta , Saeid Motiian

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

This paper proposes an introspective deep metric learning (IDML) framework for uncertainty-aware comparisons of images. Conventional deep metric learning methods produce confident semantic distances between images regardless of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wenzhao Zheng , Chengkun Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Deep neural networks trained using a softmax layer at the top and the cross-entropy loss are ubiquitous tools for image classification. Yet, this does not naturally enforce intra-class similarity nor inter-class margin of the learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 José Lezama , Qiang Qiu , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches typically rely on class activation maps (CAMs) for initial seed generation, which often fail to capture global context due to limited supervision from image-level labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soojin Jang , Jungmin Yun , Junehyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Youngbin Kim

Enabling Visual Semantic Models to effectively handle multi-view description matching has been a longstanding challenge. Existing methods typically learn a set of embeddings to find the optimal match for each view's text and compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yang Liu , Wentao Feng , Zhuoyao Liu , Shudong Huang , Jiancheng Lv

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

3D visual grounding consists of identifying the instance in a 3D scene which is referred by an accompanying language description. While several architectures have been proposed within the commonly employed grounding-by-selection framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Sombit Dey , Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we propose 3DSS-VLG, a weakly supervised approach for 3D Semantic Segmentation with 2D Vision-Language Guidance, an alternative approach that a 3D model predicts dense-embedding for each point which is co-embedded with both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Xiaoxu Xu , Yitian Yuan , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Deep learning approaches have shown promising performance for compressed sensing-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging. While deep neural networks trained with mean squared error (MSE) loss functions can achieve high peak signal to noise ratio,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Maximilian Seitzer , Guang Yang , Jo Schlemper , Ozan Oktay , Tobias Würfl , Vincent Christlein , Tom Wong , Raad Mohiaddin , David Firmin , Jennifer Keegan , Daniel Rueckert , Andreas Maier

Distance metric learning (DML) approaches learn a transformation to a representation space where distance is in correspondence with a predefined notion of similarity. While such models offer a number of compelling benefits, it has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-03 Oren Rippel , Manohar Paluri , Piotr Dollar , Lubomir Bourdev

Deep Metric Learning (DML) has long attracted the attention of the machine learning community as a key objective. Existing solutions concentrate on fine-tuning the pre-trained models on conventional image datasets. As a result of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Li Ren , Chen Chen , Liqiang Wang , Kien Hua

Semantic matching aims to establish pixel-level correspondences between instances of the same category and represents a fundamental task in computer vision. Existing approaches suffer from two limitations: (i) Geometric Ambiguity: Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Songlin Yang , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zeqi Xiao , Anyi Rao , Xingang Pan

Deep metric learning has yielded impressive results in tasks such as clustering and image retrieval by leveraging neural networks to obtain highly discriminative feature embeddings, which can be used to group samples into different classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ismail Elezi , Sebastiano Vascon , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo , Laura Leal-Taixe

Contrastive pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, demonstrate strong generalization abilities in zero-shot classification by leveraging embeddings extracted from image and text encoders. This paper aims to robustly fine-tune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Satoshi Suzuki , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Shoichiro Takeda , Taiga Yamane , Naoki Makishima , Naotaka Kawata , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi , Ryo Masumura