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Current facial expression recognition (FER) models are often designed in a supervised learning manner and thus are constrained by the lack of large-scale facial expression images with high-quality annotations. Consequently, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Zengqun Zhao , Yu Cao , Shaogang Gong , Ioannis Patras

Recent approaches have shown that training deep neural networks directly on large-scale image-text pair collections enables zero-shot transfer on various recognition tasks. One central issue is how this can be generalized to object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Johnathan Xie , Shuai Zheng

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. However, there still exists a considerable performance gap between these models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel

The success of large-scale contrastive vision-language pretraining (CLIP) has benefited both visual recognition and multimodal content understanding. The concise design brings CLIP the advantage in inference efficiency against other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shijie Geng , Jianbo Yuan , Yu Tian , Yuxiao Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

This paper presents several novel findings on the explainability of vision reflection in large multimodal models (LMMs). First, we show that prompting an LMM to verify the prediction of a specialized vision model can improve recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Guoyuan An , JaeYoon Kim , SungEui Yoon

Despite the significant progress in deep learning for dense visual recognition problems, such as semantic segmentation, traditional methods are constrained by fixed class sets. Meanwhile, vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Sina Hajimiri , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Workplace accidents due to personal protective equipment (PPE) non-compliance raise serious safety concerns and lead to legal liabilities, financial penalties, and reputational damage. While object detection models have shown the capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhiling Chen , Hanning Chen , Mohsen Imani , Ruimin Chen , Farhad Imani

It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu

Training models to apply linguistic knowledge and visual concepts from 2D images to 3D world understanding is a promising direction that researchers have only recently started to explore. In this work, we design a novel 3D pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Maria Parelli , Alexandros Delitzas , Nikolas Hars , Georgios Vlassis , Sotirios Anagnostidis , Gregor Bachmann , Thomas Hofmann

Vision-Language Model (VLM) have gained widespread adoption in Open-Vocabulary (OV) object detection and segmentation tasks. Despite they have shown promise on OV-related tasks, their effectiveness in conventional vision tasks has thus far…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yongchao Feng , Yajie Liu , Shuai Yang , Wenrui Cai , Jinqing Zhang , Qiqi Zhan , Ziyue Huang , Hongxi Yan , Qiao Wan , Chenguang Liu , Junzhe Wang , Jiahui Lv , Ziqi Liu , Tengyuan Shi , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Object proposal generation is an important and fundamental task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose ProposalCLIP, a method towards unsupervised open-category object proposal generation. Unlike previous works which require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Yicheng Wu , Jianfei Cai

Medical image classification plays a crucial role in clinical decision-making, yet most models are constrained to a fixed set of predefined classes, limiting their adaptability to new conditions. Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Stefan Denner , Markus Bujotzek , Dimitrios Bounias , David Zimmerer , Raphael Stock , Klaus Maier-Hein

Vision-language retrieval (VLR) has attracted significant attention in both academia and industry, which involves using text (or images) as queries to retrieve corresponding images (or text). However, existing methods often neglect the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 GuangHao Meng , Sunan He , Jinpeng Wang , Tao Dai , Letian Zhang , Jieming Zhu , Qing Li , Gang Wang , Rui Zhang , Yong Jiang

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

The emergence of large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) represents a paradigm shift in machine learning, with unprecedented results in a broad span of visual recognition tasks. CLIP, one of the most popular VLMs, has exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Pablo Piantanida , Jose Dolz

Large-scale vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models are prone to hallucinate non-existent visual objects when generating text based on visual information. In this paper, we systematically study the object hallucination problem from three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Wenliang Dai , Zihan Liu , Ziwei Ji , Dan Su , Pascale Fung

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) treat text descriptions as a unit, confusing individual concepts in a prompt and impairing visual semantic matching and reasoning. An important aspect of reasoning in logic and language is negations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jaisidh Singh , Ishaan Shrivastava , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Aparna Bharati

Large-scale but noisy image-text pair data have paved the way for the success of Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP). As the foundation vision encoder, CLIP in turn serves as the cornerstone for most large vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Zhixiang Wei , Guangting Wang , Xiaoxiao Ma , Ke Mei , Huaian Chen , Yi Jin , Fengyun Rao

Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-language model, while less attention is paid to the interpretation of CLIP. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Chenyang Zhao , Kun Wang , Janet H. Hsiao , Antoni B. Chan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, recent studies have shown that VLMs, such as CLIP, perform poorly in understanding negation expressions, which are common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jingqi Xu