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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown great promise in pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks. However, existing approaches utilizing CLIP's text and patch embeddings to generate semantic masks often misidentify…

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Open-vocabulary object detection is the task of accurately detecting objects from a candidate vocabulary list that includes both base and novel categories. Currently, numerous open-vocabulary detectors have achieved success by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ruizhe Zeng , Lu Zhang , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Existing open-world universal segmentation approaches usually leverage CLIP and pre-computed proposal masks to treat open-world segmentation tasks as proposal classification. However, 1) these works cannot handle universal segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Bowen Dong , Jiaxi Gu , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Wangmeng Zuo

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to detect objects beyond the training annotations, where detectors are usually aligned to a pre-trained vision-language model, eg, CLIP, to inherit its generalizable recognition ability so that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shenghao Fu , Junkai Yan , Qize Yang , Xihan Wei , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Large-scale multi-modal contrastive pre-training has demonstrated great utility to learn transferable features for a range of downstream tasks by mapping multiple modalities into a shared embedding space. Typically, this has employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Haoxuan You , Luowei Zhou , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Yu Cheng , Ruochen Xu , Shih-Fu Chang , Lu Yuan

Multimodal video summarization requires visual features that align semantically with language generation. Traditional approaches rely on CNN features trained for object classification, which represent visual concepts as discrete categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Richong Zhang , Francesco Setti

Vision-language foundation models such as CLIP have achieved tremendous results in global vision-language alignment, but still show some limitations in creating representations for specific image regions. % To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Walid Bousselham , Sofian Chaybouti , Christian Rupprecht , Vittorio Ferrari , Hilde Kuehne

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment objects from arbitrary text categories without requiring densely annotated datasets. Although contrastive learning based models enable zero-shot segmentation, they often lose fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Huy Che , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims at segmenting images from free-form textual concepts without predefined training classes. While existing vision-language models such as CLIP can generate segmentation masks by leveraging coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Luca Barsellotti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Nicola Messina , Fabio Carrara , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Fabrizio Falchi , Rita Cucchiara

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) encoders have been shown to be beneficial for a range of visual tasks from classification and detection to captioning and image manipulation. We investigate the effectiveness of CLIP visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Apoorv Khandelwal , Luca Weihs , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. Recently, CLIP has been widely adopted as the vision backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hong-You Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Xinze Wang , Marcin Eichner , Keen You , Meng Cao , Bowen Zhang , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang

In this paper, we introduce an open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation model that effectively unifies the strengths of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the vision-language CLIP model in an end-to-end framework. While SAM excels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Vibashan VS , Shubhankar Borse , Hyojin Park , Debasmit Das , Vishal Patel , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

As a pioneering vision-language model, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has achieved significant success across various domains and a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks. However, the text encoders in popular CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Mothilal Asokan , Kebin Wu , Fatima Albreiki

This paper addresses the challenging problem of open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) where an object detector must identify both seen and unseen classes in test images without labeled examples of the unseen classes in training. A typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Chau Pham , Truong Vu , Khoi Nguyen

This paper studies open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) through calibrating in-vocabulary and domain-biased embedding space with generalized contextual prior of CLIP. As the core of open-vocabulary understanding, alignment of visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Sule Bai , Guanbin Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) links vision and language modalities into a unified embedding space, yielding the tremendous potential for vision-language (VL) tasks. While early concurrent works have begun to study this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhecan Wang , Noel Codella , Yen-Chun Chen , Luowei Zhou , Jianwei Yang , Xiyang Dai , Bin Xiao , Haoxuan You , Shih-Fu Chang , Lu Yuan

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated great zero-shot performance for matching images and text. However, it is still challenging to adapt vision-lanaguage pretrained models like CLIP to compositional image and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kenan Jiang , Xuehai He , Ruize Xu , Xin Eric Wang

Visual language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) have shown impressive performance in analyzing natural images with language information. However, these models often encounter challenges when applied to specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiaqing Zhang , Mingxiang Cao , Xue Yang , Kai Jiang , Yunsong Li