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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fumiya Uchiyama , Rintaro Yanagi , Shohei Taniguchi , Shota Takashiro , Masahiro Suzuki , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

In this paper we propose a novel modification of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) guidance for the task of unsupervised backlit image enhancement. Our work builds on the state-of-the-art CLIP-LIT approach, which learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Tatiana Gaintseva , Martin Benning , Gregory Slabaugh

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves remarkable performance in various downstream tasks through the alignment of image and text input embeddings and holds great promise for anomaly detection. However, our empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Adam Goodge , Bryan Hooi , Wee Siong Ng

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Considerable progress has recently been made in leveraging CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) models for text-guided image manipulation. However, all existing works rely on additional generative models to ensure the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yiren Song , Xuning Shao , Kang Chen , Weidong Zhang , Minzhe Li , Zhongliang Jing

We present a comprehensive experimental study on pretrained feature extractors for visual out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, focusing on adapting contrastive language-image pretrained (CLIP) models. Without fine-tuning on the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nikolas Adaloglou , Felix Michels , Tim Kaiser , Markus Kollmann

We employ an inversion-based approach to examine CLIP models. Our examination reveals that inverting CLIP models results in the generation of images that exhibit semantic alignment with the specified target prompts. We leverage these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Hamid Kazemi , Atoosa Chegini , Jonas Geiping , Soheil Feizi , Tom Goldstein

Cross-Modal Retrieval (CMR) is an important research topic across multimodal computing and information retrieval, which takes one type of data as the query to retrieve relevant data of another type. It has been widely used in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhixiong Zeng , Wenji Mao

The advent of large pre-trained models has brought about a paradigm shift in both visual representation learning and natural language processing. However, clustering unlabeled images, as a fundamental and classic machine learning problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tianzhe Chu , Shengbang Tong , Tianjiao Ding , Xili Dai , Benjamin David Haeffele , René Vidal , Yi Ma

While multimodal contrastive learning methods (e.g., CLIP) can achieve impressive zero-shot classification performance, recent research has revealed that these methods are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. To defend against backdoor attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuwei Niu , Shuo He , Qi Wei , Zongyu Wu , Feng Liu , Lei Feng

Multi-modal models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated strong performance in aligning visual and textual representations, excelling in tasks like image retrieval and zero-shot classification. Despite this success, the mechanisms by which these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wenhao Wang , Adam Dziedzic , Grace C. Kim , Michael Backes , Franziska Boenisch

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) serves as a de-facto standard to align images and texts. Nonetheless, the loose correlation between images and texts of web-crawled data renders the contrastive objective data inefficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jinghao Zhou , Li Dong , Zhe Gan , Lijuan Wang , Furu Wei

Multimodal contrastive learning models (e.g., CLIP) can learn high-quality representations from large-scale image-text datasets, while they exhibit significant vulnerabilities to backdoor attacks, raising serious safety concerns. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhifang Zhang , Shuo He , Haobo Wang , Bingquan Shen , Lei Feng

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

Language-image pre-training largely relies on how precisely and thoroughly a text describes its paired image. In practice, however, the contents of an image can be so rich that well describing them requires lengthy captions (e.g., with 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kecheng Zheng , Yifei Zhang , Wei Wu , Fan Lu , Shuailei Ma , Xin Jin , Wei Chen , Yujun Shen

Generative AI leaderboards are central to evaluating model capabilities, but remain vulnerable to manipulation. Among key adversarial objectives is rank manipulation, where an attacker must first deanonymize the models behind displayed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ali Naseh , Anshuman Suri , Yuefeng Peng , Harsh Chaudhari , Alina Oprea , Amir Houmansadr

Image captioning models are usually trained according to human annotated ground-truth captions, which could generate accurate but generic captions. In this paper, we focus on generating distinctive captions that can distinguish the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Youyuan Zhang , Jiuniu Wang , Hao Wu , Wenjia Xu

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, exhibit strong image-text comprehension abilities, facilitating advances in several downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification, image-text retrieval, and text-to-image generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Le Zhang , Rabiul Awal , Aishwarya Agrawal

The Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models like CLIP have gained popularity in recent years. However, many works found that the social biases hidden in CLIP easily manifest in downstream tasks, especially in image retrieval, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang