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While great success has been achieved in building vision models with Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) over internet-scale image-text pairs, building transferable Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with CLIP pipeline is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zihao Li , Lecheng Zheng , Bowen Jin , Dongqi Fu , Baoyu Jing , Yikun Ban , Jingrui He , Jiawei Han

Objective: While recent advances in text-conditioned generative models have enabled the synthesis of realistic medical images, progress has been largely confined to 2D modalities such as chest X-rays. Extending text-to-image generation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Daniele Molino , Camillo Maria Caruso , Filippo Ruffini , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi

This paper proposes a method for generating images of customized objects specified by users. The method is based on a general framework that bypasses the lengthy optimization required by previous approaches, which often employ a per-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Xuhui Jia , Yang Zhao , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yandong Li , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Tingbo Hou , Huisheng Wang , Yu-Chuan Su

Text-to-Image translation has been an active area of research in the recent past. The ability for a network to learn the meaning of a sentence and generate an accurate image that depicts the sentence shows ability of the model to think more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Satya Krishna Gorti , Jeremy Ma

We hypothesize that end-to-end neural image captioning systems work seemingly well because they exploit and learn `distributional similarity' in a multimodal feature space by mapping a test image to similar training images in this space and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Pranava Madhyastha , Josiah Wang , Lucia Specia

A large number of annotated training images is crucial for training successful scene text recognition models. However, collecting sufficient datasets can be a labor-intensive and costly process, particularly for low-resource languages. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yangchen Xie , Xinyuan Chen , Hongjian Zhan , Palaiahankote Shivakum , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Yue Lu

Text-to-image diffusion-based generative models have the stunning ability to generate photo-realistic images and achieve state-of-the-art low FID scores on challenging image generation benchmarks. However, one of the primary failure modes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Arman Zarei , Keivan Rezaei , Samyadeep Basu , Mehrdad Saberi , Mazda Moayeri , Priyatham Kattakinda , Soheil Feizi

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely used in vision tasks. Notably, CLIP has demonstrated promising performance in few-shot learning (FSL). However, existing CLIP-based methods in training-free FSL (i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yayuan Li , Jintao Guo , Lei Qi , Wenbin Li , Yinghuan Shi

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zijia Song , Zelin Zang , Yelin Wang , Guozheng Yang , Kaicheng yu , Wanyu Chen , Miaoyu Wang , Stan Z. Li

This paper presents a CLIP-based unsupervised learning method for annotation-free multi-label image classification, including three stages: initialization, training, and inference. At the initialization stage, we take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Rabab Abdelfattah , Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Xiaofeng Wang , Song Wang

Multi-modal learning has become increasingly popular due to its ability to leverage information from different data sources (e.g., text and images) to improve the model performance. Recently, CLIP has emerged as an effective approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zixiang Chen , Yihe Deng , Yuanzhi Li , Quanquan Gu

Existing text recognition methods usually need large-scale training data. Most of them rely on synthetic training data due to the lack of annotated real images. However, there is a domain gap between the synthetic data and real data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mingkun Yang , Minghui Liao , Pu Lu , Jing Wang , Shenggao Zhu , Hualin Luo , Qi Tian , Xiang Bai

Training deep networks with limited labeled data while achieving a strong generalization ability is key in the quest to reduce human annotation efforts. This is the goal of semi-supervised learning, which exploits more widely available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Daiqing Li , Junlin Yang , Karsten Kreis , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Vision-language models like CLIP show impressive ability to align images and text, but their training on short, concise captions makes them struggle with lengthy, detailed descriptions. Recent advances mitigate this challenge by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chau Truong , Hieu Ta Quang , Dung D. Le

Recent CLIP-guided 3D optimization methods, such as DreamFields and PureCLIPNeRF, have achieved impressive results in zero-shot text-to-3D synthesis. However, due to scratch training and random initialization without prior knowledge, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jiale Xu , Xintao Wang , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Shenghua Gao

The CLIP model has demonstrated significant advancements in aligning visual and language modalities through large-scale pre-training on image-text pairs, enabling strong zero-shot classification and retrieval capabilities on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Gensheng Pei , Tao Chen , Yujia Wang , Xinhao Cai , Xiangbo Shu , Tianfei Zhou , Yazhou Yao

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

Visual generative AI models often encounter challenges related to text-image alignment and reasoning limitations. This paper presents a novel method for selectively enhancing the signal at critical denoising steps, optimizing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Paul Grimal , Hervé Le Borgne , Olivier Ferret

Image Captioning for state-of-the-art VLMs has significantly improved over time; however, this comes at the cost of increased computational complexity, making them less accessible for resource-constrained applications such as mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sania Waheed , Na Min An