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CLIP models learn transferable multi-modal features via image-text contrastive learning on internet-scale data. They are widely used in zero-shot classification, multi-modal retrieval, text-to-image diffusion, and as image encoders in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Anas Mahmoud , Aldo Zaimi , Arsene Fansi Tchango , Steven L. Waslander

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown great impact on diverse downstream tasks for zero-shot or label-free predictions. However, when it comes to low-level vision such as image restoration their performance deteriorates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

X-ray imaging is pivotal in medical diagnostics, offering non-invasive insights into a range of health conditions. Recently, vision-language models, such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model, have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Xiangyu Sun , Xiaoguang Zou , Yuanquan Wu , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Instance features in images exhibit spurious correlations with background features, affecting the training process of deep neural classifiers. This leads to insufficient attention to instance features by the classifier, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xuewei Li , Zhenzhen Nie , Mei Yu , Zijian Zhang , Jie Gao , Tianyi Xu , Zhiqiang Liu

We introduce Projection-based Reduction of Implicit Spurious bias in vision-language Models (PRISM), a new data-free and task-agnostic solution for bias mitigation in VLMs like CLIP. VLMs often inherit and amplify biases in their training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mahdiyar Molahasani , Azadeh Motamedi , Michael Greenspan , Il-Min Kim , Ali Etemad

CLIP's success has demonstrated that prompt tuning can achieve robust cross-modal semantic alignment for tasks ranging from open-domain recognition to fine-grained classification. However, redundant or weakly relevant feature components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yutong Gao , Maoyuan Shao , Xinyang Huang , Chuang Zhu , Lijuan Sun , Yu Weng , Xuan Liu , Guoshun Nan

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) is a powerful vision-language model that has shown great benefits for various tasks. However, we have identified some issues with its explainability, which undermine its credibility and limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yi Li , Hualiang Wang , Yiqun Duan , Jiheng Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

Despite the success of large-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) especially CLIP in various open-vocabulary tasks, their application to semantic segmentation remains challenging, producing noisy segmentation maps with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Pre-trained Vision-language (VL) models, such as CLIP, have shown significant generalization ability to downstream tasks, even with minimal fine-tuning. While prompt learning has emerged as an effective strategy to adapt pre-trained VL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Hossein Kashiani , Fatemeh Afghah

Large-scale datasets have been pivotal to the advancements of deep learning models in recent years, but training on such large datasets invariably incurs substantial storage and computational overhead. Meanwhile, real-world datasets often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Suorong Yang , Peng Ye , Wanli Ouyang , Dongzhan Zhou , Furao Shen

This work aims to adapt large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP), to enhance the performance of object reidentification (Re-ID) across various supervision settings. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiachen Li , Xiaojin Gong

Learning generalized representations from limited training samples is crucial for applying deep neural networks in low-resource scenarios. Recently, methods based on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have exhibited promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Wei Wang , Xiaofeng Mao , Xiu Yan , Yue Wang , Zhigang Li , Wang lu , Jindong Wang , Xiangyang Ji

Vision-language models such as CLIP are pretrained on large volumes of internet sourced image and text pairs, and have been shown to sometimes exhibit impressive zero- and low-shot image classification performance. However, due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

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

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model excels in few-shot learning by aligning visual and textual representations. Our study shows that template-sample similarity (TSS), defined as the resemblance between a text template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li

The rapid advancement of generative models has made real and synthetic images increasingly indistinguishable. Although extensive efforts have been devoted to detecting AI-generated images, out-of-distribution generalization remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ziqiang Li , Jiazhen Yan , Fan Wang , Kai Zeng , Zhangjie Fu

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

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels is a challenging task. Mainstream approaches follow a multi-stage framework and suffer from high training costs. In this paper, we explore the potential of Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuqi Lin , Minghao Chen , Wenxiao Wang , Boxi Wu , Ke Li , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Xiaofei He