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Understanding how objects relate to each other in space is fundamental to scene understanding, yet most contrastive pre-training approaches only model pairwise relationships, leaving richer compositional and multi-hop interactions largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sheikh Tanvir Ahmed , Md. Tanvir Raihan

Multimodal contrastive learning (MCL) aims to embed data from different modalities in a shared embedding space. However, empirical evidence shows that representations from different modalities occupy completely separate regions of embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Lingjie Yi , Raphael Douady , Chao Chen

Learning self-supervised representations using reconstruction or contrastive losses improves performance and sample complexity of image-based and multimodal reinforcement learning (RL). Here, different self-supervised loss functions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Philipp Becker , Sebastian Mossburger , Fabian Otto , Gerhard Neumann

This paper proposes a single-stage training approach that semantically aligns three modalities - audio, visual, and text using a contrastive learning framework. Contrastive training has gained prominence for multimodal alignment, utilizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Irene Martín-Morató , Tuomas Virtanen

Cross-modal representation learning learns a shared embedding between two or more modalities to improve performance in a given task compared to using only one of the modalities. Cross-modal representation learning from different data types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Felix Ott , David Rügamer , Lucas Heublein , Bernd Bischl , Christopher Mutschler

Multi-modal contrastive learning (MMCL) has recently garnered considerable interest due to its superior performance in visual tasks, achieved by embedding multi-modal data, such as visual-language pairs. However, there still lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pivotal next-generation technology, enabling users to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kun Zhang , Jingyu Li , Zhe Li , Jingjing Zhang , Fan Li , Yandong Liu , Rui Yan , Zihang Jiang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao , S. Kevin Zhou

Most video-and-language representation learning approaches employ contrastive learning, e.g., CLIP, to project the video and text features into a common latent space according to the semantic similarities of text-video pairs. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Peng Jin , Jinfa Huang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Shen Ge , Guoli Song , David A. Clifton , Jie Chen

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) typically involves learning common representations to directly measure similarities between multimodal samples. Most existing CMR methods commonly assume multimodal samples in pairs and employ joint training to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Ruitao Pu , Yang Qin , Dezhong Peng , Xiaomin Song , Huiming Zheng

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) has been extensively applied in various domains, such as multimedia search engines and recommendation systems. Most existing CMR methods focus on image-to-text retrieval, whereas audio-to-text retrieval, a less…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Kaiyi Luo , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Huaxiong Li , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Multi-contrast MRI images provide complementary contrast information about the characteristics of anatomical structures and are commonly used in clinical practice. Recently, a multi-flip-angle (FA) and multi-echo GRE method (MULTIPLEX MRI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Eric Z. Chen , Yongquan Ye , Xiao Chen , Jingyuan Lyu , Zhongqi Zhang , Yichen Hu , Terrence Chen , Jian Xu , Shanhui Sun

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) uses contrastive learning from noise image-text pairs to excel at recognizing a wide array of candidates, yet its focus on broad associations hinders the precision in distinguishing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ziyu Liu , Zeyi Sun , Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Decoding neural visual representations from electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain activity is crucial for advancing brain-machine interfaces (BMI) and has transformative potential for neural sensory rehabilitation. While multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yueyang Li , Zijian Kang , Shengyu Gong , Wenhao Dong , Weiming Zeng , Hongjie Yan , Wai Ting Siok , Nizhuan Wang

Accurate interpretation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans in clinical systems is based on a precise understanding of image contrast. This contrast is primarily governed by acquisition parameters, such as echo time and repetition time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mehmet Yigit Avci , Pedro Borges , Paul Wright , Mehmet Yigitsoy , Sebastien Ourselin , Jorge Cardoso

Multi-modal contrastive learning as a self-supervised representation learning technique has achieved great success in foundation model training, such as CLIP~\citep{radford2021learning}. In this paper, we study the theoretical properties of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Yu Gui , Cong Ma , Zongming Ma

Multi-modal learning has become increasingly popular due to its ability to leverage information from different data sources (e.g., text and images) to improve the model performance. Recently, CLIP has emerged as an effective approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zixiang Chen , Yihe Deng , Yuanzhi Li , Quanquan Gu

In the past few years, contrastive learning has played a central role for the success of visual unsupervised representation learning. Around the same time, high-performance non-contrastive learning methods have been developed as well. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jaeill Kim , Duhun Hwang , Eunjung Lee , Jangwon Suh , Jimyeong Kim , Wonjong Rhee

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in clinical settings. However, the inherent long scan time of MRI restricts its widespread applicability. Deep learning-based image super-resolution (SR) methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Hao Li , Quanwei Liu , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Yanni Dong , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lv

Multimodal representation learning has been largely driven by contrastive models such as CLIP, which learn a shared embedding space by aligning paired image-text samples. While effective for general-purpose representation learning, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Qiao , Yuntong Hu , Bowen Zhu , Hasibul Haque , Liang Zhao

We introduce eCLIP, an enhanced version of the CLIP model that integrates expert annotations in the form of radiologist eye-gaze heatmaps. It tackles key challenges in contrastive multi-modal medical imaging analysis, notably data scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yogesh Kumar , Pekka Marttinen