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Image Difference Captioning (IDC) aims at generating sentences to describe differences between two similar-looking images. Conventional approaches learn an IDC model with a pre-trained and usually frozen visual feature extractor.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zixin Guo , Tzu-Jui Julius Wang , Jorma Laaksonen

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Shaohui Liu , Hong Huang , Feng Jiang

Along with the prosperity of recurrent neural network in modelling sequential data and the power of attention mechanism in automatically identify salient information, image captioning, a.k.a., image description, has been remarkably advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Lixin Duan , Heng Tao Shen

The popular CLIP model displays impressive zero-shot capabilities thanks to its seamless interaction with arbitrary text prompts. However, its lack of spatial awareness makes it unsuitable for dense computer vision tasks, e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Monika Wysoczańska , Oriane Siméoni , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Andrei Bursuc , Tomasz Trzciński , Patrick Pérez

We present a new encoder-decoder Vision Transformer architecture, Patcher, for medical image segmentation. Unlike standard Vision Transformers, it employs Patcher blocks that segment an image into large patches, each of which is further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yanglan Ou , Ye Yuan , Xiaolei Huang , Stephen T. C. Wong , John Volpi , James Z. Wang , Kelvin Wong

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

Contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, have garnered considerable attention for various downstream tasks, mainly due to the remarkable ability of the learned features for generalization. However, the features they learned often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Berardino Barile , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semantic alignment. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hai Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Large-scale neural network models combining text and images have made incredible progress in recent years. However, it remains an open question to what extent such models encode compositional representations of the concepts over which they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Martha Lewis , Nihal V. Nayak , Peilin Yu , Qinan Yu , Jack Merullo , Stephen H. Bach , Ellie Pavlick

Supervised or weakly supervised methods for phrase localization (textual grounding) either rely on human annotations or some other supervised models, e.g., object detectors. Obtaining these annotations is labor-intensive and may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jiahao Li , Greg Shakhnarovich , Raymond A. Yeh

We present a method that computes an interpretable representation of material appearance within a highly compact, disentangled latent space. This representation is learned in a self-supervised fashion using an adapted FactorVAE. We train…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Santiago Jimenez-Navarro , Julia Guerrero-Viu , Belen Masia

This paper presents a model architecture for encoding the representations of part-whole hierarchies in images in form of a graph. The idea is to divide the image into patches of different levels and then treat all of these patches as nodes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Muhammad AbdurRafae

Typographic attacks exploit multi-modal systems by injecting text into images, leading to targeted misclassifications, malicious content generation and even Vision-Language Model jailbreaks. In this work, we analyze how CLIP vision encoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Lorenz Hufe , Constantin Venhoff , Erblina Purelku , Maximilian Dreyer , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek

CLIP exhibits strong visual-textual alignment but struggle with open-vocabulary segmentation due to poor localization. Prior methods enhance spatial coherence by modifying intermediate attention. But, this coherence isn't consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhixiang Chi , Yanan Wu , Li Gu , Huan Liu , Ziqiang Wang , Yang Zhang , Yang Wang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Interacting and understanding with text heavy visual content with multiple images is a major challenge for traditional vision models. This paper is on enhancing vision models' capability to comprehend or understand and learn from images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Adithya TG , Adithya SK , Abhinav R Bharadwaj , Abhiram HA , Surabhi Narayan

Vision-language co-embedding networks, such as CLIP, provide a latent embedding space with semantic information that is useful for downstream tasks. We hypothesize that the embedding space can be disentangled to separate the information on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhi Li , Hau Phan , Matthew Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

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

Video-text retrieval plays an essential role in multi-modal research and has been widely used in many real-world web applications. The CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training), an image-language pre-training model, has demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Huaishao Luo , Lei Ji , Ming Zhong , Yang Chen , Wen Lei , Nan Duan , Tianrui Li

State-of-the-art empirical work has shown that visual representations learned by deep neural networks are robust in nature and capable of performing classification tasks on diverse datasets. For example, CLIP demonstrated zero-shot transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Chanda Grover , Indra Deep Mastan , Debayan Gupta