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Foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP exhibit strong generalization capabilities due to large-scale pretraining on diverse image-text pairs. However, their performance often degrades when applied to target datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Debarshi Brahma , Soma Biswas

The fusion of vision and language has brought about a transformative shift in computer vision through the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, the resource-intensive nature of existing VLMs poses a significant challenge. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jordan Shipard , Arnold Wiliem , Kien Nguyen Thanh , Wei Xiang , Clinton Fookes

Open-vocabulary segmentation, powered by large visual-language models like CLIP, has expanded 2D segmentation capabilities beyond fixed classes predefined by the dataset, enabling zero-shot understanding across diverse scenes. Extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Weiwen Hu , Niccolò Parodi , Marcus Zepp , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval typically asks for a trained model to be applied as is to unseen categories. In this paper, we question to argue that this setup by definition is not compatible with the inherent abstract and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Vaishnav Potlapalli , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

In specific scenarios, face sketch can be used to identify a person. However, drawing a face sketch often requires exceptional skill and is time-consuming, limiting its widespread applications in actual scenarios. The new framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Liang Wang , Dawei Dai , Shiyu Fu , Guoyin Wang

Within the domain of medical analysis, extensive research has explored the potential of mutual learning between Masked Autoencoders(MAEs) and multimodal data. However, the impact of MAEs on intermodality remains a key challenge. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Lei Li , Tianfang Zhang , Xinglin Zhang , Jiaqi Liu , Bingqi Ma , Yan Luo , Tao Chen

The huge domain gap between sketches and photos and the highly abstract sketch representations pose challenges for sketch-based image retrieval (\underline{SBIR}). The zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (\underline{ZS-SBIR}) is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hao Ren , Ziqiang Zheng , Yang Wu , Hong Lu , Yang Yang , Ying Shan , Sai-Kit Yeung

Multi-species animal pose estimation has emerged as a challenging yet critical task, hindered by substantial visual diversity and uncertainty. This paper challenges the problem by efficient prompt learning for Vision-Language Pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jiyong Rao , Brian Nlong Zhao , Yu Wang

The rapid advancement of unsupervised representation learning and large-scale pre-trained vision-language models has significantly improved cross-modal retrieval tasks. However, existing multi-modal information retrieval (MMIR) studies lack…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zirui Li , Siwei Wu , Yizhi Li , Xingyu Wang , Yi Zhou , Chenghua Lin

Image captioning aims at generating descriptive and meaningful textual descriptions of images, enabling a broad range of vision-language applications. Prior works have demonstrated that harnessing the power of Contrastive Image Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Longtian Qiu , Shan Ning , Xuming He

Large-scale pre-trained models have demonstrated impressive performance in vision and language tasks within open-world scenarios. Due to the lack of comparable pre-trained models for 3D shapes, recent methods utilize language-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Dan Song , Xinwei Fu , Ning Liu , Weizhi Nie , Wenhui Li , Lanjun Wang , You Yang , Anan Liu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a cross-modal task that aims to segment an instance described by a natural language expression. Recent methods leverage large-scale pretrained unimodal models as backbones along with fusion techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Seoyeon Kim , Minguk Kang , Dongwon Kim , Jaesik Park , Suha Kwak

Whole slide pathology image classification presents challenges due to gigapixel image sizes and limited annotation labels, hindering model generalization. This paper introduces a prompt learning method to adapt large vision-language models…

Vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities in classification and retrieval. However, these models often struggle with compositional reasoning - the ability to understand the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amit Peleg , Naman Deep Singh , Matthias Hein

Multi-label recognition with partial labels (MLR-PL), in which only some labels are known while others are unknown for each image, is a practical task in computer vision, since collecting large-scale and complete multi-label datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haoxian Ruan , Zhihua Xu , Zhijing Yang , Yongyi Lu , Jinghui Qin , Tianshui Chen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), demonstrating comparable performance in both visual and linguistic tasks while offering the advantage of improved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Changze Lv , Tianlong Li , Wenhao Liu , Yufei Gu , Jianhan Xu , Cenyuan Zhang , Muling Wu , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

In this paper, we propose UniLIP, a unified framework that adapts CLIP for multimodal understanding, generation and editing. Although CLIP excels at understanding, it lacks reconstruction abilities required to be a unified visual encoder.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Hao Tang , Chenwei Xie , Xiaoyi Bao , Tingyu Weng , Pandeng Li , Yun Zheng , Liwei Wang

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, establish the correlation between texts and images, achieving remarkable success on various downstream tasks with fine-tuning. In existing fine-tuning methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model excels in few-shot learning by aligning visual and textual representations. Our study shows that template-sample similarity (TSS), defined as the resemblance between a text template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma