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Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are trained with the objective of aligning text and image pairs. To improve CLIP-based few-shot image classification, recent works have observed that, along with text embeddings, image embeddings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dipam Goswami , Simone Magistri , Gido M. van de Ven , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Tinne Tuytelaars , Joost van de Weijer

Image-text matching is an important multi-modal task with massive applications. It tries to match the image and the text with similar semantic information. Existing approaches do not explicitly transform the different modalities into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shiyang Yan , Li Yu , Yuan Xie

We propose a text-to-image generation algorithm based on deep neural networks when text captions for images are unavailable during training. In this work, instead of simply generating pseudo-ground-truth sentences of training images using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Minsoo Kang , Doyup Lee , Jiseob Kim , Saehoon Kim , Bohyung Han

We present ImageBind, an approach to learn a joint embedding across six different modalities - images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU data. We show that all combinations of paired data are not necessary to train such a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Rohit Girdhar , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Zhuang Liu , Mannat Singh , Kalyan Vasudev Alwala , Armand Joulin , Ishan Misra

In this paper we propose to learn a multimodal image and text embedding from Web and Social Media data, aiming to leverage the semantic knowledge learnt in the text domain and transfer it to a visual model for semantic image retrieval. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Raul Gomez , Lluis Gomez , Jaume Gibert , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Aligning objects with corresponding textual descriptions is a fundamental challenge and a realistic requirement in vision-language understanding. While recent multimodal embedding models excel at global image-text alignment, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shenghao Fu , Yukun Su , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Recent research has shown that word embedding spaces learned from text corpora of different languages can be aligned without any parallel data supervision. Inspired by the success in unsupervised cross-lingual word embeddings, in this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yu-An Chung , Wei-Hung Weng , Schrasing Tong , James Glass

Current approaches to learning semantic representations of sentences often use prior word-level knowledge. The current study aims to leverage visual information in order to capture sentence level semantics without the need for word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Danny Merkx , Stefan Frank

Deep image embedding provides a way to measure the semantic similarity of two images. It plays a central role in many applications such as image search, face verification, and zero-shot learning. It is desirable to have a universal deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yang Feng , Futang Peng , Xu Zhang , Wei Zhu , Shanfeng Zhang , Howard Zhou , Zhen Li , Tom Duerig , Shih-Fu Chang , Jiebo Luo

Any general artificial intelligence system must be able to interpret, operate on, and produce data in a multi-modal latent space that can represent audio, imagery, text, and more. In the last decade, deep neural networks have seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Sarah Di , Robin Yu , Amol Kapoor

Generic text embeddings are successfully used in a variety of tasks. However, they are often learnt by capturing the co-occurrence structure from pure text corpora, resulting in limitations of their ability to generalize. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Karol Kurach , Sylvain Gelly , Michal Jastrzebski , Philip Haeusser , Olivier Teytaud , Damien Vincent , Olivier Bousquet

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

With the novel and fast advances in the area of deep neural networks, several challenging image-based tasks have been recently approached by researchers in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this paper, we address one of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Jônatas Wehrmann , Anderson Mattjie , Rodrigo C. Barros

Self-Supervised learning from multimodal image and text data allows deep neural networks to learn powerful features with no need of human annotated data. Web and Social Media platforms provide a virtually unlimited amount of this multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Raul Gomez , Lluis Gomez , Jaume Gibert , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

This work addresses the challenge of achieving zero-shot adversarial robustness while preserving zero-shot generalization in large-scale foundation models, with a focus on the popular Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Fengji Ma , Li Liu , Hei Victor Cheng

Word alignment over parallel corpora has a wide variety of applications, including learning translation lexicons, cross-lingual transfer of language processing tools, and automatic evaluation or analysis of translation outputs. The great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zi-Yi Dou , Graham Neubig

Matching images and sentences demands a fine understanding of both modalities. In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space. In this field, most existing works apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Michael Garrett , Yi Yang , Mingliang Xu , Yi-Dong Shen

Recent work has shown that a model's input word embeddings can serve as effective control variables for steering its behavior toward outputs that satisfy desired properties. However, this has only been demonstrated for pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Baturay Saglam , Dionysis Kalogerias

Multimodal models have demonstrated powerful capabilities in complex tasks requiring multimodal alignment, including zero-shot classification and cross-modal retrieval. However, existing models typically rely on millions of paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fabian Gröger , Shuo Wen , Huyen Le , Maria Brbić