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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) is a popular method for learning multimodal latent spaces with well-organized semantics. Despite its wide range of applications, CLIP's latent space is known to fail at handling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Raphi Kang , Yue Song , Georgia Gkioxari , Pietro Perona

Recent approaches have shown that large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP can improve semantic segmentation performance. These methods typically aim for pixel-level vision-language alignment, but often rely on low resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Anurag Das , Xinting Hu , Li Jiang , Bernt Schiele

In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

The scarcity of annotated data has sparked significant interest in unsupervised pre-training methods that leverage medical reports as auxiliary signals for medical visual representation learning. However, existing research overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zhe Li , Laurence T. Yang , Bocheng Ren , Xin Nie , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

Vision-language pretraining models have made significant progress in bridging remote sensing imagery with natural language. However, existing approaches often fail to effectively integrate multi-granular visual and textual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiao Yang , Ronghao Fu , Zhuoran Duan , Zhiwen Lin , Xueyan Liu , Bo Yang

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

CLIP showcases exceptional cross-modal matching capabilities due to its training on image-text contrastive learning tasks. However, without specific optimization for unimodal scenarios, its performance in single-modality feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chao Yi , Lu Ren , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a widely explored multi-modal task, which endeavors to segment the pre-existing object within a single image with a given linguistic expression. However, in broader real-world scenarios, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yixuan Wu , Zhao Zhang , Xie Chi , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the object in an image uniquely referred to by a natural language expression. However, RIS training often contains hard-to-align and instance-specific visual signals; optimizing on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongfei Chen , Shuo Yang , Yuguang Yang , Linlin Yang , Runtang Guo , Changbai Li , He Long , Chunyu Xie , Dawei Leng , Baochang Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated strong generalization across a wide range of visual tasks by leveraging large-scale English-image pairs. However, its extension to low-resource languages remains limited due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dahyun Chung , Donghyun Shin , Yujin Sung , Seunggi Moon , Jinwoo Jeon , Byung-Jun Lee

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment target objects expressed in natural language within a scene at the pixel level. Various recent RIS models have achieved state-of-the-art performance by generating contextual tokens to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Minhyeok Lee , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Suhwan Cho , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) plays an essential role in extracting valuable content information from images across diverse tasks. It aligns textual and visual modalities to comprehend the entire image, including all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zeyi Sun , Ye Fang , Tong Wu , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shu Kong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Advances in multi-modal embeddings, and in particular CLIP, have recently driven several breakthroughs in Computer Vision (CV). CLIP has shown impressive performance on a variety of tasks, yet, its inherently opaque architecture may hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Loris Giulivi , Giacomo Boracchi

Although CLIP-like Visual Language Models provide a functional joint feature space for image and text, due to the limitation of the CILP-like model's image input size (e.g., 224), subtle details are lost in the feature representation if we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zilun Zhang , Cuifeng Shen , Yuan Shen , Xinyu Zhou , Huixin Xiong , Tiancheng Zhao , Jianwei Yin

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

In contrast to the incremental classification task, the incremental detection task is characterized by the presence of data ambiguity, as an image may have differently labeled bounding boxes across multiple continuous learning stages. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Ziyue Huang , Yupeng He , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation has witnessed great achievements with image-level labels. Several recent approaches use the CLIP model to generate pseudo labels for training an individual segmentation model, while there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Bingfeng Zhang , Siyue Yu , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Jimin Xiao

Inspired by recent findings on the fractal geometry of language, we introduce Recursive INference Scaling (RINS) as a complementary, plug-in recipe for scaling inference time in language and multimodal systems. RINS is a particular form of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin , Xiaohua Zhai

Unsupervised representation learning for image clustering is essential in computer vision. Although the advancement of visual models has improved image clustering with efficient visual representations, challenges still remain. Firstly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zijie Song , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in aligning images and text, but they often struggle with lengthy and detailed text descriptions due to pre-training on short and concise captions. We present FAST-GOAL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hyungyu Choi , Young Kyun Jang , Chanho Eom