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Unsupervised large-scale vision-language pre-training has shown promising advances on various downstream tasks. Existing methods often model the cross-modal interaction either via the similarity of the global feature of each modality which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lewei Yao , Runhui Huang , Lu Hou , Guansong Lu , Minzhe Niu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , Xin Jiang , Chunjing Xu

Recent CLIP-based few-shot semantic segmentation methods introduce class-level textual priors to assist segmentation by typically using a single prompt (e.g., a photo of class). However, these approaches often result in incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Qiang Jiao , Bin Yan , Yi Yang , Mengrui Shi , Qiang Zhang

Accurate classification of focal liver lesions is crucial for diagnosis and treatment in hepatology. However, traditional supervised deep learning models depend on large-scale annotated datasets, which are often limited in medical imaging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Song Jian , Hu Yuchang , Wang Hui , Chen Yen-Wei

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Accurate lumbar spine segmentation is crucial for diagnosing spinal disorders. Existing methods typically use coarse-grained segmentation strategies that lack the fine detail needed for precise diagnosis. Additionally, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Sheng Lian , Jianlong Cai , Dengfeng Pan , Guang-Yong Chen , Hao Xu , Fan Zhang , Guodong Fan , Shuo Li

Fine-grained vision-language understanding requires precise alignment between visual content and linguistic descriptions, a capability that remains limited in current models, particularly in non-English settings. While models like CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chunyu Xie , Bin Wang , Fanjing Kong , Jincheng Li , Dawei Liang , Ji Ao , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

While vision models are highly capable, their internal mechanisms remain poorly understood -- a challenge which sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have helped address in language, but which remains underexplored in vision. We address this gap by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sonia Joseph , Praneet Suresh , Ethan Goldfarb , Lorenz Hufe , Yossi Gandelsman , Robert Graham , Danilo Bzdok , Wojciech Samek , Blake Aaron Richards

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

Latent image representations arising from vision-language models have proved immensely useful for a variety of downstream tasks. However, their utility is limited by their entanglement with respect to different visual attributes. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 James Oldfield , Christos Tzelepis , Yannis Panagakis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Ioannis Patras

Adopting contrastive image-text pretrained models like CLIP towards video classification has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness and competitive performance. However, recent works in this area face a trade-off. Finetuning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

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 objective of this work is to explore how to effectively and efficiently adapt pre-trained visual foundation models to various downstream tasks of semantic segmentation. Previous methods usually fine-tuned the entire networks for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Lingbo Liu , Jianlong Chang , Bruce X. B. Yu , Liang Lin , Qi Tian , Chang-Wen Chen

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

CLIP, as a vision-language model, has significantly advanced Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) with its zero-shot capabilities. Despite its success, its application to OVSS faces challenges due to its initial image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tong Shao , Zhuotao Tian , Hang Zhao , Jingyong Su

We exploit the potential of the large-scale Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model to enhance scene text detection and spotting tasks, transforming it into a robust backbone, FastTCM-CR50. This backbone utilizes visual prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Wenwen Yu , Yuliang Liu , Xingkui Zhu , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Xiang Bai

Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Mengde Xu , Zheng Zhang , Fangyun Wei , Yutong Lin , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Xiang Bai

Large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP achieve strong zero-shot recognition but struggle with classes that are rarely seen during pretraining, including newly emerging entities and culturally specific categories. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Aishwarya Agarwal , Srikrishna Karanam , Vineet Gandhi

Vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities in classification and retrieval. However, these models often struggle with compositional reasoning - the ability to understand the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amit Peleg , Naman Deep Singh , Matthias Hein

Despite remarkable advancements in supervised pansharpening neural networks, these methods face domain adaptation challenges of resolution due to the intrinsic disparity between simulated reduced-resolution training data and real-world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Lihua Jian , Jiabo Liu , Shaowu Wu , Lihui Chen

Existing vision-text contrastive learning like CLIP aims to match the paired image and caption embeddings while pushing others apart, which improves representation transferability and supports zero-shot prediction. However, medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zifeng Wang , Zhenbang Wu , Dinesh Agarwal , Jimeng Sun