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Critical research about camera-and-LiDAR-based semantic object segmentation for autonomous driving significantly benefited from the recent development of deep learning. Specifically, the vision transformer is the novel ground-breaker that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Junyi Gu , Mauro Bellone , Tomáš Pivoňka , Raivo Sell

With the popularity of foundational models, parameter efficient fine tuning has become the defacto approach to leverage pretrained models to perform downstream tasks. Taking inspiration from recent advances in large language models, Visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Aadya Arora , Vinay Namboodiri

In this paper, we propose a novel multimodal framework, Multimodal Language-Guided Network (MMLGNet), to align heterogeneous remote sensing modalities like Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) and LiDAR with natural language semantics using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Aditya Chaudhary , Sneha Barman , Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Girish Mishra , Biplab Banerjee

While vision-language pre-trained models (VL-PTMs) have advanced multimodal research in recent years, their mastery in a few languages like English restricts their applicability in broader communities. To this end, there is an increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Bang Yang , Yong Dai , Xuxin Cheng , Yaowei Li , Asif Raza , Yuexian Zou

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval and zero-shot classification but struggles with fine-grained understanding due to its focus on coarse-grained short captions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chunyu Xie , Bin Wang , Fanjing Kong , Jincheng Li , Dawei Liang , Gengshen Zhang , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

In recent literature, few-shot classification has predominantly been defined by the N-way k-shot meta-learning problem. Models designed for this purpose are usually trained to excel on standard benchmarks following a restricted setup,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Constance Ferragu , Philomene Chagniot , Vincent Coyette

Large-scale vision-language pre-training has achieved promising results on downstream tasks. Existing methods highly rely on the assumption that the image-text pairs crawled from the Internet are in perfect one-to-one correspondence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yuting Gao , Jinfeng Liu , Zihan Xu , Jun Zhang , Ke Li , Rongrong Ji , Chunhua Shen

CLIP has shown impressive results in aligning images and texts at scale. However, its ability to capture detailed visual features remains limited because CLIP matches images and texts at a global level. To address this issue, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Rui Xiao , Sanghwan Kim , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Zeynep Akata , Stephan Alaniz

The recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and the emergence of Diffusion models have significantly streamlined the production of highly realistic and widely accessible synthetic content. As a result, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sohail Ahmed Khan , Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen

In multimodal learning, CLIP has been recognized as the \textit{de facto} method for learning a shared latent space across multiple modalities, placing similar representations close to each other and moving them away from dissimilar ones.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Eleonora Grassucci , Giordano Cicchetti , Emanuele Frasca , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP excel in general multimodal comprehension but often struggle to capture nuanced, context-dependent visual cues. This makes it difficult to distinguish between similar-looking concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yuchen Huang , Zhiyuan Fan , Zhitao He , Sandeep Polisetty , Wenyan Li , Yi R. Fung

CLIP achieves strong zero-shot image-text retrieval by aligning global vision and text representations, yet it falls behind on fine-grained tasks even when fine-tuned on long, detailed captions. In this work, we propose $\beta$-CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fatimah Zohra , Chen Zhao , Hani Itani , Bernard Ghanem

In complex orchard environments, the phenotypic heterogeneity of different apple leaf diseases, characterized by significant variation among lesions, poses a challenge to traditional multi-scale feature fusion methods. These methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lemin Liu , Fangchao Hu , Honghua Jiang , Yaru Chen , Limin Liu , Yongliang Qiao

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves promising results in 2D zero-shot and few-shot learning. Despite the impressive performance in 2D, applying CLIP to help the learning in 3D scene understanding has yet to be explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Yikang Li , Yuenan Hou , Yu Qiao , Wenping Wang

Recently, large-scale Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has attracted unprecedented attention for its impressive zero-shot recognition ability and excellent transferability to downstream tasks. However, CLIP is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yangguang Li , Feng Liang , Lichen Zhao , Yufeng Cui , Wanli Ouyang , Jing Shao , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in vision-language representation learning, powering diverse downstream tasks and serving as the default vision backbone in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chuan Qin , Constantin Venhoff , Sonia Joseph , Fanyi Xiao , Stefan Scherer

Dense visual perception tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Junjie Wang , Keyu Chen , Yulin Li , Bin Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi , Zhuotao Tian

After pre-training on extensive image-text pairs, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates promising performance on a wide variety of benchmarks. However, a substantial volume of multimodal interleaved documents remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yin Xie , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation in the remote sensing (RS) field requires both language-aligned recognition and fine-grained spatial delineation. Although CLIP offers robust semantic generalization, its global-aligned visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jie Feng , Fengze Li , Junpeng Zhang , Siyu Chen , Yuping Liang , Junying Chen , Ronghua Shang

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais