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We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

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Open-vocabulary video instance segmentation strives to segment and track instances belonging to an open set of categories in a videos. The vision-language model Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown robust zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Zhu , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Shuangming Yang , Yanwei Pang

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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 like CLIP have demonstrated impressive open-vocabulary capabilities for image-level tasks, excelling in recognizing what objects are present. However, they struggle with pixel-level recognition tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Heeseong Shin , Chaehyun Kim , Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

We explore the extent to which zero-shot vision-language models exhibit gender bias for different vision tasks. Vision models traditionally required task-specific labels for representing concepts, as well as finetuning; zero-shot models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Melissa Hall , Laura Gustafson , Aaron Adcock , Ishan Misra , Candace Ross

Recent advances in foundational Vision Language Models (VLMs) have reshaped the evaluation paradigm in computer vision tasks. These foundational models, especially CLIP, have accelerated research in open-vocabulary computer vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 M. Arda Aydın , Efe Mert Çırpar , Elvin Abdinli , Gozde Unal , Yusuf H. Sahin

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Zero-shot learning for visual recognition, e.g., object and action recognition, has recently attracted a lot of attention. However, it still remains challenging in bridging the semantic gap between visual features and their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

Transductive zero-shot learning with vision-language models leverages image-image similarities within the dataset to achieve better classification accuracy compared to the inductive setting. However, there is little work that explores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Oindrila Saha , Logan Lawrence , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

Vision and Language (VL) models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot performance in a variety of tasks. However, some aspects of complex language understanding still remain a challenge. We introduce the collective notion of Structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Sivan Doveh , Assaf Arbelle , Sivan Harary , Rameswar Panda , Roei Herzig , Eli Schwartz , Donghyun Kim , Raja Giryes , Rogerio Feris , Shimon Ullman , Leonid Karlinsky

3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Amin Mirzaei , Pantea Amoie , Ali Ekhterachian , Matin Mirzababaei , Babak Khalaj

How well do text-only large language models (LLMs) align with the visual world? We present a systematic evaluation of this question by incorporating frozen representations of various language models into a discriminative vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jona Ruthardt , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Serge Belongie , Yuki M. Asano

Multimodal pre-trained models, such as CLIP, are popular for zero-shot classification due to their open-vocabulary flexibility and high performance. However, vision-language models, which compute similarity scores between images and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mia Chiquier , Utkarsh Mall , Carl Vondrick

Recent advances in visual-language models have shown remarkable zero-shot text-image matching ability that is transferable to downstream tasks such as object detection and segmentation. Adapting these models for object counting, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ruixiang Jiang , Lingbo Liu , Changwen Chen

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

Pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP have shown excellent performance in many downstream cross-modal tasks. However, most of them are only applicable to the English context. Subsequent research has focused on this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Wenbo Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Jianfeng Lin , Binqiang Huang , Jinlu Zhang , Wenhao Yu

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

A key benefit of deep vision-language models such as CLIP is that they enable zero-shot open vocabulary classification; the user has the ability to define novel class labels via natural language prompts at inference time. However, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 A K Nirala , A Joshi , C Hegde , S Sarkar

Vision-language models, such as CLIP, have achieved significant success in aligning visual and textual representations, becoming essential components of many multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) like LLaVA and OpenFlamingo. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shizhan Gong , Yankai Jiang , Qi Dou , Farzan Farnia