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When it comes to deploying deep vision models, the behavior of these systems must be explicable to ensure confidence in their reliability and fairness. A common approach to evaluate deep learning models is to build a labeled test set with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jinqi Luo , Zhaoning Wang , Chen Henry Wu , Dong Huang , Fernando De la Torre

Household environments are visually diverse. Embodied agents performing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in the wild must be able to handle this diversity, while also following arbitrary language instructions. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Gunnar Sigurdsson , Robinson Piramuthu , Jesse Thomason , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Despite great progress in object detection, most existing methods work only on a limited set of object categories, due to the tremendous human effort needed for bounding-box annotations of training data. To alleviate the problem, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Mingfei Gao , Chen Xing , Juan Carlos Niebles , Junnan Li , Ran Xu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Instance segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task in 3D field with numerous applications that involve localizing and segmenting objects in a scene. However, achieving satisfactory results requires a large number of manual annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhikai Zhang , Jian Ding , Li Jiang , Dengxin Dai , Gui-Song Xia

Recent breakthroughs in large foundation models have enabled the possibility of transferring knowledge pre-trained on vast datasets to domains with limited data availability. Agriculture is one of the domains that lacks sufficient data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yanan Wang , Zhenghao Fei , Ruichen Li , Yibin Ying

In this paper, we introduce an open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation model that effectively unifies the strengths of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the vision-language CLIP model in an end-to-end framework. While SAM excels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Vibashan VS , Shubhankar Borse , Hyojin Park , Debasmit Das , Vishal Patel , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Training-free Camouflaged Object Segmentation (COS) seeks to segment camouflaged objects without task-specific training, by automatically generating visual prompts to guide the Segment Anything Model (SAM). However, existing pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chao Yin , Jide Li , Hang Yao , Xiaoqiang Li

To ease the difficulty of acquiring annotation labels in 3D data, a common method is using unsupervised and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, which leverage 2D CLIP semantic knowledge. In this paper, unlike previous research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fuyang Yu , Runze Tian , Zhen Wang , Xiaochuan Wang , Xiaohui Liang

Transfer learning enables the sharing of common knowledge among models for a variety of downstream tasks, but traditional methods suffer in limited training data settings and produce narrow models incapable of effectively generalizing under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kevin Vogt-Lowell , Noah Lee , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Marc Vaillant

Large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot image recognition, yet their predictions remain largely opaque to human understanding. In contrast, Concept Bottleneck Models provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Onat Ozdemir , Anders Christensen , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata , Emre Akbas

Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization…

CLIP outperforms self-supervised models like DINO as vision encoders for vision-language models (VLMs), but it remains unclear whether this advantage stems from CLIP's language supervision or its much larger training data. To disentangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yiming Liu , Yuhui Zhang , Dhruba Ghosh , Ludwig Schmidt , Serena Yeung-Levy

CLIP is a discriminative model trained to align images and text in a shared embedding space. Due to its multimodal structure, it serves as the backbone of many generative pipelines, where a decoder is trained to map from the shared space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Antonio D'Orazio , Maria Rosaria Briglia , Donato Crisostomi , Dario Loi , Emanuele Rodolà , Iacopo Masi

CLIP has achieved impressive zero-shot performance after pre-training on a large-scale dataset consisting of paired image-text data. Previous works have utilized CLIP by incorporating manually designed visual prompts like colored circles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jiedong Zhuang , Jiaqi Hu , Lianrui Mu , Rui Hu , Xiaoyu Liang , Jiangnan Ye , Haoji Hu

With the growing interest in pretrained vision-language models like CLIP, recent research has focused on adapting these models to downstream tasks. Despite achieving promising results, most existing methods require labeled data for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zhengbo Wang , Jian Liang , Ran He , Nan Xu , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Current state-of-the-art methods for panoptic segmentation require an immense amount of annotated training data that is both arduous and expensive to obtain posing a significant challenge for their widespread adoption. Concurrently, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Markus Käppeler , Kürsat Petek , Niclas Vödisch , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Current 3D scene segmentation methods are heavily dependent on manually annotated 3D training datasets. Such manual annotations are labor-intensive, and often lack fine-grained details. Importantly, models trained on this data typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Rui Huang , Songyou Peng , Ayca Takmaz , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Francis Engelmann

Being able to segment unseen classes not observed during training is an important technical challenge in deep learning, because of its potential to reduce the expensive annotation required for semantic segmentation. Prior zero-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Giuseppe Pastore , Fabio Cermelli , Yongqin Xian , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo

This paper presents a grounded language-image pre-training (GLIP) model for learning object-level, language-aware, and semantic-rich visual representations. GLIP unifies object detection and phrase grounding for pre-training. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Liunian Harold Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Haotian Zhang , Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Yiwu Zhong , Lijuan Wang , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Kai-Wei Chang , Jianfeng Gao

Pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, show promising zero-shot performance across a wide variety of datasets. For closed-set classification tasks, however, there is an inherent limitation: CLIP image encoders are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Piyapat Saranrittichai , Mauricio Munoz , Volker Fischer , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi