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The CLIP model has been recently proven to be very effective for a variety of cross-modal tasks, including the evaluation of captions generated from vision-and-language architectures. In this paper, we propose a new recipe for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Sara Sarto , Manuele Barraco , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP to downstream tasks is often necessary to optimize their performance. However, a major obstacle is the limited availability of labeled data. We study the use of pseudolabels, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cristina Menghini , Andrew Delworth , Stephen H. Bach

Audio-visual captioning aims to generate holistic scene descriptions by jointly modeling sound and vision. While recent methods have improved performance through sophisticated modality fusion, it remains unclear to what extent the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Yuchi Ishikawa , Toranosuke Manabe , Tatsuya Komatsu , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Pre-trained multi-modal Vision-Language Models like CLIP are widely used off-the-shelf for a variety of applications. In this paper, we show that the common practice of individually exploiting the text or image encoders of these powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Marco Mistretta , Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Andrew D. Bagdanov

While Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) excels at zero-shot tasks by aligning image and text embeddings, its performance in few-shot classification is hindered by a critical limitation: intra-modal misalignment. This issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Christoph Timmermann , Hyunse Lee , Woojin Lee

Generative training has been demonstrated to be powerful for building visual-language models. However, on zero-shot discriminative benchmarks, there is still a performance gap between models trained with generative and discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenglin Yang , Siyuan Qiao , Yuan Cao , Yu Zhang , Tao Zhu , Alan Yuille , Jiahui Yu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained (CLIP) models have zero-shot ability of classifying an image belonging to "[CLASS]" by using similarity between the image and the prompt sentence "a [CONTEXT] of [CLASS]". Based on exhaustive text cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaojun Jia , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Zhao Li

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown great promise in pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks. However, existing approaches utilizing CLIP's text and patch embeddings to generate semantic masks often misidentify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Shengju Qian , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

In recent years, datasets of paired audio and captions have enabled remarkable success in automatically generating descriptions for audio clips, namely Automated Audio Captioning (AAC). However, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Theodoros Kouzelis , Vassilis Katsouros

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

Understanding long text is of great demands in practice but beyond the reach of most language-image pre-training (LIP) models. In this work, we empirically confirm that the key reason causing such an issue is that the training images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Wei Wu , Kecheng Zheng , Shuailei Ma , Fan Lu , Yuxin Guo , Yifei Zhang , Wei Chen , Qingpei Guo , Yujun Shen , Zheng-Jun Zha

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

We propose CLIP-Lite, an information efficient method for visual representation learning by feature alignment with textual annotations. Compared to the previously proposed CLIP model, CLIP-Lite requires only one negative image-text sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Aman Shrivastava , Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Nikhil Naik , Vicente Ordonez

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

Contrastive pretraining of image-text foundation models, such as CLIP, demonstrated excellent zero-shot performance and improved robustness on a wide range of downstream tasks. However, these models utilize large transformer-based encoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Hadi Pouransari , Fartash Faghri , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Oncel Tuzel

Self-supervised models trained with a contrastive loss such as CLIP have shown to be very powerful in zero-shot classification settings. However, to be used as a zero-shot classifier these models require the user to provide new captions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bhawesh Kumar , Anil Palepu , Rudraksh Tuwani , Andrew Beam

We present VideoCLIP, a contrastive approach to pre-train a unified model for zero-shot video and text understanding, without using any labels on downstream tasks. VideoCLIP trains a transformer for video and text by contrasting temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Hu Xu , Gargi Ghosh , Po-Yao Huang , Dmytro Okhonko , Armen Aghajanyan , Florian Metze , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) delivers strong cross modal generalization by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space, yet it persistently fails at compositional reasoning over objects, attributes, and relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ziliang Chen , Tianang Xiao , Jusheng Zhang , Yongsen Zheng , Xipeng Chen

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