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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown great promise in pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks. However, existing approaches utilizing CLIP's text and patch embeddings to generate semantic masks often misidentify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Shengju Qian , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Treating texts as images, combining prompts with textual labels for prompt tuning, and leveraging the alignment properties of CLIP have been successfully applied in zero-shot multi-label image recognition. Nonetheless, relying solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haonan Xu , Dian Chao , Xiangyu Wu , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

We propose DiffCLIP, a novel vision-language model that extends the differential attention mechanism to CLIP architectures. Differential attention was originally developed for large language models to amplify relevant context while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Bernard Ghanem

Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often provide superior quality and image-text alignment, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhengfeng Lai , Vasileios Saveris , Chen Chen , Hong-You Chen , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Juan Lao Tebar , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Peter Grasch , Meng Cao , Yinfei Yang

Vision-language models like CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in aligning images and text, but they often struggle with lengthy and detailed text descriptions because of their training focus on short and concise captions. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hyungyu Choi , Young Kyun Jang , Chanho Eom

Recent image captioning models are achieving impressive results based on popular metrics, i.e., BLEU, CIDEr, and SPICE. However, focusing on the most popular metrics that only consider the overlap between the generated captions and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jiuniu Wang , Wenjia Xu , Qingzhong Wang , Antoni B. Chan

We introduce Web-Scale Multimodal Summarization, a lightweight framework for generating summaries by combining retrieved text and image data from web sources. Given a user-defined topic, the system performs parallel web, news, and image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mounvik K , N Harshit

Large vision-language contrastive models (VLCMs), such as CLIP, have become foundational, demonstrating remarkable success across a variety of downstream tasks. Despite their advantages, these models, akin to other foundational systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haocheng Dai , Sarang Joshi

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated considerable success across various vision-language tasks, such as text-to-image retrieval, where the model is required to effectively process natural language input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Hyunjae Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Handong Zhao , Quan Tran , Franck Dernoncourt , Jaewoo Kang

Generating accurate, informative, and hallucination-free captions for charts remains challenging for vision language models, primarily due to the lack of large-scale, high-quality datasets of real-world charts. However, existing real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Junyoung Lim , Jaewoo Ahn , Gunhee Kim

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

Multimodal encoders like CLIP excel in tasks such as zero-shot image classification and cross-modal retrieval. However, they require excessive training data. We propose canonical similarity analysis (CSA), which uses two unimodal encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Po-han Li , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Shaohui Liu , Hong Huang , Feng Jiang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) stands as one of the most effective and scalable methods for training transferable vision models using paired image and text data. CLIP models are trained using contrastive loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lijie Fan , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola , Dina Katabi , Yonglong Tian

Change captioning aims to describe the difference between a pair of similar images. Its key challenge is how to learn a stable difference representation under pseudo changes caused by viewpoint change. In this paper, we address this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yunbin Tu , Liang Li , Li Su , Zheng-Jun Zha , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

Photo search, the task of retrieving images based on textual queries, has witnessed significant advancements with the introduction of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) model. CLIP leverages a vision-language pre training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Naresh Kumar Lahajal , Harini S

While there have been significant gains in the field of automated video description, the generalization performance of automated description models to novel domains remains a major barrier to using these systems in the real world. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 David M. Chan , Austin Myers , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , David A. Ross , Bryan Seybold , John F. Canny

State-of-the-art empirical work has shown that visual representations learned by deep neural networks are robust in nature and capable of performing classification tasks on diverse datasets. For example, CLIP demonstrated zero-shot transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Chanda Grover , Indra Deep Mastan , Debayan Gupta

Image descriptions can help visually impaired people to quickly understand the image content. While we made significant progress in automatically describing images and optical character recognition, current approaches are unable to include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Oleksii Sidorov , Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Amanpreet Singh

Current metrics for evaluating factuality for abstractive document summarization have achieved high correlations with human judgment, but they do not account for the vision modality and thus are not adequate for vision-and-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 David Wan , Mohit Bansal