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Visual language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) have shown impressive performance in analyzing natural images with language information. However, these models often encounter challenges when applied to specialized…

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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

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have become the standard approach for learning discriminative vision-language representations. However, these models often exhibit shallow language understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Ioanna Ntinou , Alexandros Xenos , Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Although significant progress has been made in few-shot learning, most of existing few-shot image classification methods require supervised pre-training on a large amount of samples of base classes, which limits their generalization ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Fang Peng , Xiaoshan Yang , Linhui Xiao , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Recognizing and disentangling visual attributes from objects is a foundation to many computer vision applications. While large vision language representations like CLIP had largely resolved the task of zero-shot object recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 William Yicheng Zhu , Keren Ye , Junjie Ke , Jiahui Yu , Leonidas Guibas , Peyman Milanfar , Feng Yang

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models have limited language understanding, often exhibiting a "bag…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Alexandros Xenos , Anestis Zaganidis , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

CLIP is one of the most popular foundational models and is heavily used for many vision-language tasks. However, little is known about the inner workings of CLIP. To bridge this gap we propose a study to quantify the interpretability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Avinash Madasu , Yossi Gandelsman , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on vision-language reasoning tasks. However, their potential for zero-shot fine-grained image classification, a challenging task requiring precise differentiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Md. Atabuzzaman , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, exhibit strong image-text comprehension abilities, facilitating advances in several downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification, image-text retrieval, and text-to-image generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Le Zhang , Rabiul Awal , Aishwarya Agrawal

There are a thousand ways to caption an image. Contrastive Language Pretraining (CLIP) on the other hand, works by mapping an image and its caption to a single vector -- limiting how well CLIP-like models can represent the diverse ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Samuel Lavoie , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Mahmoud Assran , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Aaron Courville , Nicolas Ballas

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in image classification by training with large-scale paired image-text data. Their performances largely depend on the prompt quality. While recent methods show that visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xiangyan Qu , Gaopeng Gou , Jiamin Zhuang , Jing Yu , Kun Song , Qihao Wang , Yili Li , Gang Xiong

Large-scale Pre-Training Vision-Language Model such as CLIP has demonstrated outstanding performance in zero-shot classification, e.g. achieving 76.3% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet without seeing any example, which leads to potential benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xuefeng Hu , Ke Zhang , Lu Xia , Albert Chen , Jiajia Luo , Yuyin Sun , Ken Wang , Nan Qiao , Xiao Zeng , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ram Nevatia

The inexorable growth of online shopping and e-commerce demands scalable and robust machine learning-based solutions to accommodate customer requirements. In the context of automatic tagging classification and multimodal retrieval, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Giuseppe Cartella , Alberto Baldrati , Davide Morelli , Marcella Cornia , Marco Bertini , Rita Cucchiara

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot classification ability, namely image classification using novel text labels. Existing works have attempted to enhance CLIP by fine-tuning on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Seongha Eom , Namgyu Ho , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Large-scale pre-training and instruction tuning have been successful at creating general-purpose language models with broad competence. However, building general-purpose vision-language models is challenging due to the rich input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wenliang Dai , Junnan Li , Dongxu Li , Anthony Meng Huat Tiong , Junqi Zhao , Weisheng Wang , Boyang Li , Pascale Fung , Steven Hoi

Utilizing vision and language models (VLMs) pre-trained on large-scale image-text pairs is becoming a promising paradigm for open-vocabulary visual recognition. In this work, we extend this paradigm by leveraging motion and audio that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Rui Qian , Yeqing Li , Zheng Xu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Serge Belongie , Yin Cui

Vision-language models such as CLIP learn a generic text-image embedding from large-scale training data. A vision-language model can be adapted to a new classification task through few-shot prompt tuning. We find that such a prompt tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Cheng-En Wu , Yu Tian , Haichao Yu , Heng Wang , Pedro Morgado , Yu Hen Hu , Linjie Yang

Vision and language models (VLMs) such as CLIP have showcased remarkable zero-shot recognition abilities yet face challenges in visio-linguistic compositionality, particularly in linguistic comprehension and fine-grained image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Youngtaek Oh , Pyunghwan Ahn , Jinhyung Kim , Gwangmo Song , Soonyoung Lee , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim

With the advent of large-scale pre-trained models, interest in adapting and exploiting them for continual learning scenarios has grown. In this paper, we propose an approach to exploiting pre-trained vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xialei Liu , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Jia-wen Xiao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ming-Ming Cheng