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Self supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning paradigm where models learn to understand the underlying structure of data without explicit supervision from labeled samples. The acquired representations from SSL have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yunshan Duan , Sinead Williamson

In the era of foundation models, CLIP has emerged as a powerful tool for aligning text & visual modalities into a common embedding space. However, the alignment objective used to train CLIP often results in subpar visual features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mohamed Fazli Imam , Rufael Fedaku Marew , Jameel Hassan , Mustansar Fiaz , Alham Fikri Aji , Hisham Cholakkal

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training, known as CLIP, has shown promising effectiveness in addressing downstream image recognition tasks. However, recent works revealed that the CLIP model can be implanted with a downstream-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jiawang Bai , Kuofeng Gao , Shaobo Min , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have remarkably adapted to various downstream tasks. Nonetheless, their performance heavily depends on the specificity of the input text prompts, which requires skillful prompt template…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yingjun Du , Wenfang Sun , Cees G. M. Snoek

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has gained widespread attention in the remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO) communities owing to its ability to learn task-agnostic representations without human-annotated labels. Nevertheless, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Dilxat Muhtar , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu

Self-supervised learning (SSL), in particular contrastive learning, has made great progress in recent years. However, a common theme in these methods is that they inherit the learning paradigm from the supervised deep learning scenario.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

Vision-language pre-trained models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization, and prompt learning has emerged as an efficient alternative to full fine-tuning. However, existing methods often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhaolong Wang , Tongfeng Sun , Mingzheng Du , Yachao Huang

Contrastive image-text models such as CLIP form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art systems. While they excel at recognizing common generic concepts, they still struggle on fine-grained entities which are rare, or even absent from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Few-shot adaptation of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP typically relies on learning textual prompts matched to global image embeddings. Recent works extend this paradigm by incorporating local image-text alignment to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Deniz Kizaroğlu , Ülku Tuncer Küçüktas , Emre Çakmakyurdu , Alptekin Temizel

Recent advances in brain-inspired artificial intelligence have sought to align neural signals with visual semantics using multimodal models such as CLIP. However, existing methods often treat CLIP as a static feature extractor, overlooking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiyuan Wang , Li Zhang , Haipeng Lin , Qile Liu , Gan Huang , Ziyu Li , Zhen Liang , Xia Wu

We propose a novel framework for few-shot learning by leveraging large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP. Motivated by unimodal prototypical networks for few-shot learning, we introduce Proto-CLIP which utilizes image prototypes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jishnu Jaykumar P , Kamalesh Palanisamy , Yu-Wei Chao , Xinya Du , Yu Xiang

Visual Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) currently underperforms Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) in multimodal settings such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). This multimodal gap is often attributed to the semantics introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 David Fan , Shengbang Tong , Jiachen Zhu , Koustuv Sinha , Zhuang Liu , Xinlei Chen , Michael Rabbat , Nicolas Ballas , Yann LeCun , Amir Bar , Saining Xie

Given a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption, the Composed Image Retrieval goal is to retrieve images visually similar to the reference one that integrates the modifications expressed by the caption. Given that recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Alberto Baldrati , Marco Bertini , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto del Bimbo

CLIP is a seminal multimodal model that maps images and text into a shared representation space through contrastive learning on billions of image-caption pairs. Inspired by the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Weiquan Huang , Aoqi Wu , Yifan Yang , Xufang Luo , Yuqing Yang , Usman Naseem , Chunyu Wang , Chunyu Wang , Qi Dai , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Lili Qiu , Liang Hu

Visual In-Context Learning (VICL) enables adaptively solving vision tasks by leveraging pixel demonstrations, mimicking human-like task completion through analogy. Prompt selection is critical in VICL, but current methods assume the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jinpeng Wang , Tianci Luo , Yaohua Zha , Yan Feng , Ruisheng Luo , Bin Chen , Tao Dai , Long Chen , Yaowei Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly boosted the performance of various vision-language tasks by scaling up the dataset with image-text pairs collected from the web. However, the presence of intrinsic noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kaicheng Yang , Jiankang Deng , Xiang An , Jiawei Li , Ziyong Feng , Jia Guo , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

Prompt learning is an effective method to customize Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for various downstream tasks, involving tuning very few parameters of input prompt tokens. Recently, prompt pretraining in large-scale dataset (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhenyuan Chen , Lingfeng Yang , Shuo Chen , Zhaowei Chen , Jiajun Liang , Xiang Li

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities for downstream tasks. Due to its efficiency, prompt learning has gradually become a more effective and efficient method for transferring VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenhao Ding , Xinyuan Gao , Songlin Dong , Jizhou Han , Qiang Wang , Zhengdong Zhou , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

Current self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) approaches encounter performance limitations due to insufficient semantic-spatial knowledge extraction. To address this challenge, we propose Hybrid-depth, a novel framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Wenyao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Bohan Li , Jiawei He , Zekun Qi , Yunnan Wang , Shengyang Zhao , Xinqiang Yu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin