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Ordinal regression is a fundamental problem within the field of computer vision, with customised well-trained models on specific tasks. While pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have exhibited impressive performance on various vision…

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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims at segmenting arbitrary categories expressed in textual form. Previous works have trained over large amounts of image-caption pairs to enforce pixel-level multimodal alignments. However, captions…

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Accurately describing images with text is a foundation of explainable AI. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have recently addressed this by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space, expressing semantic similarities…

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Pixel-level segmentation is essential in remote sensing, where foundational vision models like CLIP and Segment Anything Model(SAM) have demonstrated significant capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks. Despite their advances,…

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Recently, the open-vocabulary semantic segmentation problem has attracted increasing attention and the best performing methods are based on two-stream networks: one stream for proposal mask generation and the other for segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Cong Han , Yujie Zhong , Dengjie Li , Kai Han , Lin Ma

CLIP has shown promising performance across many short-text tasks in a zero-shot manner. However, limited by the input length of the text encoder, CLIP struggles on under-stream tasks with long-text inputs ($>77$ tokens). To remedy this…

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Open-vocabulary segmentation poses significant challenges, as it requires segmenting and recognizing objects across an open set of categories in unconstrained environments. Building on the success of powerful vision-language (ViL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xi Chen , Haosen Yang , Sheng Jin , Xiatian Zhu , Hongxun Yao

While vision-language pre-trained models (VL-PTMs) have advanced multimodal research in recent years, their mastery in a few languages like English restricts their applicability in broader communities. To this end, there is an increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Bang Yang , Yong Dai , Xuxin Cheng , Yaowei Li , Asif Raza , Yuexian Zou

CLIP achieves strong zero-shot image-text retrieval by aligning global vision and text representations, yet it falls behind on fine-grained tasks even when fine-tuned on long, detailed captions. In this work, we propose $\beta$-CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fatimah Zohra , Chen Zhao , Hani Itani , Bernard Ghanem

This paper addresses text-supervised semantic segmentation, aiming to learn a model capable of segmenting arbitrary visual concepts within images by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing methods have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ji-Jia Wu , Andy Chia-Hao Chang , Chieh-Yu Chuang , Chun-Pei Chen , Yu-Lun Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Hou-Ning Hu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Yen-Yu Lin

Existing open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) develops methods for testing unseen categories by aligning object region embeddings with corresponding VLM features. A recent study leverages the idea that VLMs implicitly learn compositional…

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Medical image segmentation of anatomical structures and pathology is crucial in modern clinical diagnosis, disease study, and treatment planning. To date, great progress has been made in deep learning-based segmentation techniques, but most…

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We present a unified vision-language framework tailored for ENT endoscopy image analysis that simultaneously tackles three clinically-relevant tasks: image classification, image-to-image retrieval, and text-to-image retrieval. Unlike…

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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) exhibits strong zero-shot classification ability on various image-level tasks, leading to the research to adapt CLIP for pixel-level open-vocabulary semantic segmentation without additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lin Sun , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Xiaoheng Jiang , Yanwei Pang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated impressive capabilities in open-vocabulary classification. The class token in the image encoder is trained to capture the global features to distinguish different text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yuqi Lin , Minghao Chen , Kaipeng Zhang , Hengjia Li , Mingming Li , Zheng Yang , Dongqin Lv , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images is essential for modern clinical diagnosis, disease research, and treatment planning. While significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Recent advancements in open vocabulary models, like CLIP, have notably advanced zero-shot classification and segmentation by utilizing natural language for class-specific embeddings. However, most research has focused on improving model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Cees G. M. Snoek

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) is an open-world task that aims to assign each pixel within an image to a specific class defined by arbitrary text descriptions. While large-scale vision-language models have shown remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lin Chen , Qi Yang , Kun Ding , Zhihao Li , Gang Shen , Fei Li , Qiyuan Cao , Shiming Xiang

Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Soroush Seifi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Fabien Despinoy , Rahaf Aljundi

Multimodal fusion breaks through the boundaries between diverse modalities and has already achieved notable performances. However, in many specialized fields, it is struggling to obtain sufficient alignment data for training, which…

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