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Recent studies have shown that CLIP model's adversarial robustness in zero-shot classification tasks can be enhanced by adversarially fine-tuning its image encoder with adversarial examples (AEs), which are generated by minimizing the…

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Text attribute person search aims to find specific pedestrians through given textual attributes, which is very meaningful in the scene of searching for designated pedestrians through witness descriptions. The key challenge is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xin Wang , Fangfang Liu , Zheng Li , Caili Guo

Contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, the multi-modal feature spaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Dewei Feng , Sekitoshi Kanai , Kazuki Adachi , Daiki Chijiwa

Vision-language models like CLIP demonstrate impressive zero-shot generalization but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this work, we propose Confidence-Aware Weighting (CAW) to enhance zero-shot robustness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Nikoo Naghavian , Mostafa Tavassolipour

Image matching is a fundamental computer vision problem. While learning-based methods achieve state-of-the-art performance on existing benchmarks, they generalize poorly to in-the-wild images. Such methods typically need to train separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xuelun Shen , Zhipeng Cai , Wei Yin , Matthias Müller , Zijun Li , Kaixuan Wang , Xiaozhi Chen , Cheng Wang

Zero-shot learning methods rely on fixed visual and semantic embeddings, extracted from independent vision and language models, both pre-trained for other large-scale tasks. This is a weakness of current zero-shot learning frameworks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shah Nawaz , Jacopo Cavazza , Alessio Del Bue

We introduce Transductive Infomation Maximization (TIM) for few-shot learning. Our method maximizes the mutual information between the query features and their label predictions for a given few-shot task, in conjunction with a supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Malik Boudiaf , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Jérôme Rony , José Dolz , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalizability across diverse downstream tasks. However, recent studies have revealed that VLMs, including CLIP, are highly vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jia Deng , Jin Li , Zhenhua Zhao , Shaowei Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) performs zero-shot image classification by mapping images and textual class representation into a shared embedding space, then retrieving the class closest to the image. This work provides a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Fawaz Sammani , Nikos Deligiannis

Understanding the vulnerability of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP against adversarial attacks is key to ensuring zero-shot generalization capacity on various downstream tasks. State-of-the-art defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Fan Yang , Mingxuan Xia , Sangzhou Xia , Chicheng Ma , Hui Hui

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to imperceptible adversarial perturbations has attracted widespread attention. Inspired by the success of vision-language foundation models, previous efforts achieved zero-shot adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiwei Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Learning discriminative 3D representations that generalize well to unknown testing categories is an emerging requirement for many real-world 3D applications. Existing well-established methods often struggle to attain this goal due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhichuan Wang , Yang Zhou , Jinhai Xiang , Yulong Wang , Xinwei He

Contrastive Language and Image Pairing (CLIP), a transformative method in multimedia retrieval, typically trains two neural networks concurrently to generate joint embeddings for text and image pairs. However, when applied directly, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Konstantin Schall , Kai Uwe Barthel , Nico Hezel , Klaus Jung

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has attained great success in pattern recognition and computer vision. Transferring CLIP to downstream tasks (e.g. zero- or few-shot classification) is a hot topic in multimodal learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhipeng Ye , Feng Jiang , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Jiaqi Huang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong zero-shot generalization but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing classification-guided adversarial fine-tuning methods often disrupt pre-trained cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yubo Cui , Xianchao Guan , Zijun Xiong , Zheng Zhang

Recently, zero-shot image captioning has gained increasing attention, where only text data is available for training. The remarkable progress in text-to-image diffusion model presents the potential to resolve this task by employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianjie Luo , Jingwen Chen , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Jianlin Feng , Hongyang Chao , Ting Yao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can perform zero-shot classification but are susceptible to adversarial attacks. While robust fine-tuning improves their robustness, existing approaches align fixed text embeddings with an image embedding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Junhao Dong , Yifei Zhang , Hao Zhu , Yew-Soon Ong , Piotr Koniusz

The development of large vision-language models, notably CLIP, has catalyzed research into effective adaptation techniques, with a particular focus on soft prompt tuning. Conjointly, test-time augmentation, which utilizes multiple augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maxime Zanella , Ismail Ben Ayed

Image-text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield representations that remain partially organized by modality. We propose ITO, a framework addressing this…

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