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In the era of foundation models, CLIP has emerged as a powerful tool for aligning text & visual modalities into a common embedding space. However, the alignment objective used to train CLIP often results in subpar visual features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mohamed Fazli Imam , Rufael Fedaku Marew , Jameel Hassan , Mustansar Fiaz , Alham Fikri Aji , Hisham Cholakkal

Training semantic segmenter with synthetic data has been attracting great attention due to its easy accessibility and huge quantities. Most previous methods focused on producing large-scale synthetic image-annotation samples and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Hao Tang , Siyue Yu , Jian Pang , Bingfeng Zhang

Recent advances in contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) have demonstrated strong capabilities in zero-shot classification by aligning visual representations with target text embeddings in an image level. However, in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Feng Wang , Jieru Mei , Alan Yuille

In the field of integrated circuit manufacturing, the detection and classification of nanoscale wafer defects are critical for subsequent root cause analysis and yield enhancement. The complex background patterns observed in scanning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Qian Jin , Yuqi Jiang , Xudong Lu , Yumeng Liu , Yining Chen , Dawei Gao , Qi Sun , Cheng Zhuo

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a novel paradigm to learn visual models from language supervision. While researchers continue to push the frontier of CLIP, reproducing these works remains challenging. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yufeng Cui , Lichen Zhao , Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Jing Shao

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) employs pixel-level vision-language alignment to associate category-related prompts with corresponding pixels. A key challenge is enhancing the multimodal dense prediction capability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jiahao Li , Yang Lu , Yachao Zhang , Yong Xie , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Precise medical image segmentation is fundamental for enabling computer aided diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Traditional models that rely solely on visual features often struggle when confronted with ambiguous or low contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ashfak Yeafi , Parthaw Goswami , Md Khairul Islam , Ashifa Islam Shamme

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation seeks to label each pixel in an image with arbitrary text descriptions. Vision-language foundation models, especially CLIP, have recently emerged as powerful tools for acquiring open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zelin Peng , Zhengqin Xu , Zhilin Zeng , Yaoming Wang , Wei Shen

Vision foundation models such as Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) and Segment Anything (SAM) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on image classification and segmentation tasks. However, the incorporation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Nenglun Chen , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Tongliang Liu , Wenping Wang

The popular CLIP model displays impressive zero-shot capabilities thanks to its seamless interaction with arbitrary text prompts. However, its lack of spatial awareness makes it unsuitable for dense computer vision tasks, e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Monika Wysoczańska , Oriane Siméoni , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Andrei Bursuc , Tomasz Trzciński , Patrick Pérez

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

We focus on domain and class generalization problems in analyzing optical remote sensing images, using the large-scale pre-trained vision-language model (VLM), CLIP. While contrastively trained VLMs show impressive zero-shot generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avigyan Bhattacharya , Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) is introduced to narrow the gap for semantic segmentation performance from pixel-level supervision to image-level supervision. Most advanced approaches are based on class activation maps (CAMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Sanghyun Jo , In-Jae Yu

While the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining(CLIP) model has achieved remarkable success in a variety of downstream vison language understanding tasks, enhancing its capability for fine-grained image-text alignment remains an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yicheng Xiao , Yu Chen , Haoxuan Ma , Jiale Hong , Caorui Li , Lingxiang Wu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

This paper examines the robustness of a multi-modal computer vision model, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), in the context of unsupervised learning. The main objective is twofold: first, to evaluate the robustness of CLIP, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Clement Laroudie , Andrei Bursuc , Mai Lan Ha , Gianni Franchi

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been the cornerstone for zero-shot classification, text-image retrieval, and text-image generation by aligning image and text modalities. Despite its widespread adoption, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Beichen Zhang , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Jiaqi Wang

While large scale pre-training has achieved great achievements in bridging the gap between vision and language, it still faces several challenges. First, the cost for pre-training is expensive. Second, there is no efficient way to handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Jue Wang , Haofan Wang , Jincan Deng , Weijia Wu , Debing Zhang

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it always focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jingxuan He , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Zunlei Feng , Tingting Mu , Mingli Song