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In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

Pretrained models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot classification capabilities across diverse visual domains, spanning natural images, artistic renderings, and abstract representations. However, real-world applications often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ashish Mishra , Gyanaranjan Nayak , Tarun Kumar , Arpit Shah , Suparna Bhattacharya , Martin Foltin

A generalist robot equipped with learned skills must be able to perform many tasks in many different environments. However, zero-shot generalization to new settings is not always possible. When the robot encounters a new environment or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alexander Khazatsky , Ashvin Nair , Daniel Jing , Sergey Levine

For effective interactions with the open world, robots should understand how interactions with known and novel objects help them towards their goal. A key aspect of this understanding lies in detecting an object's affordances, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Anne Kemmeren , Gertjan Burghouts , Michael van Bekkum , Wouter Meijer , Jelle van Mil

The emergence of CLIP has opened the way for open-world image perception. The zero-shot classification capabilities of the model are impressive but are harder to use for dense tasks such as image segmentation. Several methods have proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Monika Wysoczańska , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Tomasz Trzciński , Oriane Siméoni

CLIP, as a vision-language model, has significantly advanced Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) with its zero-shot capabilities. Despite its success, its application to OVSS faces challenges due to its initial image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Tong Shao , Zhuotao Tian , Hang Zhao , Jingyong Su

It is well-established by cognitive neuroscience that human perception of objects constitutes a complex process, where object appearance information is combined with evidence about the so-called object "affordances", namely the types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Spyridon Thermos , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos , Petros Daras , Gerasimos Potamianos

As a general-purpose vision-language pretraining model, CLIP demonstrates strong generalization ability in image-text alignment tasks and has been widely adopted in downstream applications such as image classification and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kuanrong Liu , Siyuan Liang , Cheng Qian , Ming Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

Transformer-based CLIP models are widely used for text-image probing and feature extraction, making it relevant to understand the internal mechanisms behind their predictions. While recent works show that Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maximilian Dreyer , Lorenz Hufe , Jim Berend , Thomas Wiegand , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek

Incidental supervision from language has become a popular approach for learning generic visual representations that can be prompted to perform many recognition tasks in computer vision. We conduct an in-depth exploration of the CLIP model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Sachit Menon , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Carl Vondrick

Affordances describe the possibilities for an agent to perform actions with an object. While the significance of the affordance concept has been previously studied from varied perspectives, such as psychology and cognitive science, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Katrin S. Lohan , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Ronald P. A. Petrick

This article studies the commonsense object affordance concept for enabling close-to-human task planning and task optimization of embodied robotic agents in urban environments. The focus of the object affordance is on reasoning how to…

Reasoning about object affordances allows an autonomous agent to perform generalised manipulation tasks among object instances. While current approaches to grasp affordance estimation are effective, they are limited to a single hypothesis.…

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) plays an essential role in extracting valuable content information from images across diverse tasks. It aligns textual and visual modalities to comprehend the entire image, including all the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zeyi Sun , Ye Fang , Tong Wu , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shu Kong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Adopting contrastive image-text pretrained models like CLIP towards video classification has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness and competitive performance. However, recent works in this area face a trade-off. Finetuning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Affordance knowledge is a fundamental aspect of commonsense knowledge. Recent findings indicate that world knowledge emerges through large-scale self-supervised pretraining, motivating our exploration of acquiring affordance knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hsiu-Yu Yang , Carina Silberer

The increasing emphasis on privacy and data security has driven the adoption of federated learning, a decentralized approach to train machine learning models without sharing raw data. Prompt learning, which fine-tunes prompt embeddings of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Dongping Liao , Xitong Gao , Yabo Xu , Chengzhong Xu

This paper presents a novel method that leverages a visual-language model, CLIP, as a data source for zero-shot anomaly detection. Tremendous efforts have been put towards developing anomaly detectors due to their potential industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Masato Tamura

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have enabled the task of open-vocabulary segmentation. CLIP demonstrates impressive zero-shot capabilities in various downstream tasks that require holistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sule Bai , Yong Liu , Yifei Han , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Open-world and anomaly segmentation methods seek to enable autonomous driving systems to detect and segment both known and unknown objects in real-world scenes. However, existing methods do not assign semantically meaningful labels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Klara Reichard , Nikolas Brasch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari