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Visual recognition in low-data regimes requires deep neural networks to learn generalized representations from limited training samples. Recently, CLIP-based methods have shown promising few-shot performance benefited from the contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Renrui Zhang , Xiangfei Hu , Bohao Li , Siyuan Huang , Hanqiu Deng , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao

Contrastive Language--Image Pre-training (CLIP) has manifested remarkable improvements in zero-shot classification and cross-modal vision-language tasks. Yet, from a geometrical point of view, the CLIP embedding space has been found to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sedigheh Eslami , Gerard de Melo

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Transductive few-shot learning has triggered an abundant literature focusing on vision-only models, but is still at a nascent stage within the recent context of foundational vision-language models (VLMs). Only a few recent methods addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ghassen Baklouti , Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

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

The popularity of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has propelled its application to diverse downstream vision tasks. To improve its capacity on downstream tasks, few-shot learning has become a widely-adopted technique.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xiangyang Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Bowei He , Aojun Zhou , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Peng Gao

Pre-trained multi-modal models, such as CLIP, provide transferable embeddings and show promising results in diverse applications. However, the analysis of learned multi-modal embeddings is relatively unexplored, and the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Changdae Oh , Junhyuk So , Hoyoon Byun , YongTaek Lim , Minchul Shin , Jong-June Jeon , Kyungwoo Song

Vision models trained on multimodal datasets can benefit from the wide availability of large image-caption datasets. A recent model (CLIP) was found to generalize well in zero-shot and transfer learning settings. This could imply that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Benjamin Devillers , Bhavin Choksi , Romain Bielawski , Rufin VanRullen

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated strong generalization across a wide range of visual tasks by leveraging large-scale English-image pairs. However, its extension to low-resource languages remains limited due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dahyun Chung , Donghyun Shin , Yujin Sung , Seunggi Moon , Jinwoo Jeon , Byung-Jun Lee

Multimodal models are becoming increasingly effective, in part due to unified components, such as the Transformer architecture. However, multimodal models still often consist of many task- and modality-specific pieces and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Michael Tschannen , Basil Mustafa , Neil Houlsby

Effective image classification hinges on discerning relevant features from both foreground and background elements, with the foreground typically holding the critical information. While humans adeptly classify images with limited exposure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Weihao Jiang , Haoyang Cui , Kun He

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a model that can recognize novel classes based on one or few training data. It is challenging mainly due to two aspects: (1) it lacks good feature representation of novel classes; (2) a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Canyu Le , Zhonggui Chen , Xihan Wei , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang

This expository paper introduces a simplified approach to image-based quality inspection in manufacturing using OpenAI's CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) model adapted for few-shot learning. While CLIP has demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Fadel M. Megahed , Ying-Ju Chen , Bianca Maria Colosimo , Marco Luigi Giuseppe Grasso , L. Allison Jones-Farmer , Sven Knoth , Hongyue Sun , Inez Zwetsloot

Few/Zero-shot learning is a big challenge of many classifications tasks, where a classifier is required to recognise instances of classes that have very few or even no training samples. It becomes more difficult in multi-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Jueqing Lu , Lan Du , Ming Liu , Joanna Dipnall

The significant amount of training data required for training Convolutional Neural Networks has become a bottleneck for applications like semantic segmentation. Few-shot semantic segmentation algorithms address this problem, with an aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ayyappa Kumar Pambala , Titir Dutta , Soma Biswas

Few-shot learning for fine-grained image classification has gained recent attention in computer vision. Among the approaches for few-shot learning, due to the simplicity and effectiveness, metric-based methods are favorably state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiaoxu Li , Jijie Wu , Zhuo Sun , Zhanyu Ma , Jie Cao , Jing-Hao Xue

In image classification, it is common practice to train deep networks to extract a single feature vector per input image. Few-shot classification methods also mostly follow this trend. In this work, we depart from this established direction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Hugo Larochelle , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

In this paper we deal with image classification tasks using the powerful CLIP vision-language model. Our goal is to advance the classification performance using the CLIP's image encoder, by proposing a novel Large Multimodal Model (LMM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maria Tzelepi , Vasileios Mezaris

Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) is arguably one of the most popular meta-learning algorithms nowadays. Nevertheless, its performance on few-shot classification is far behind many recent algorithms dedicated to the problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Han-Jia Ye , Wei-Lun Chao

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero