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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, recent studies have shown that VLMs, such as CLIP, perform poorly in understanding negation expressions, which are common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jingqi Xu

Large-scale web-crawled datasets are fundamental for the success of pre-training vision-language models, such as CLIP. However, the inherent noise and potential irrelevance of web-crawled AltTexts pose challenges in achieving precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Wentao Wu , Haoping Bai , Aleksei Timofeev , Xianzhi Du , Zhe Gan , Jiulong Shan , Chen-Nee Chuah , Yinfei Yang , Meng Cao

The CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) model and its variants are becoming the de facto backbone in many applications. However, training a CLIP model from hundreds of millions of image-text pairs can be prohibitively expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Liangliang Cao , Bowen Zhang , Chen Chen , Yinfei Yang , Xianzhi Du , Wencong Zhang , Zhiyun Lu , Yantao Zheng

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is an approach that has advanced research and applications in computer vision, fueling modern recognition systems and generative models. We believe that the main ingredient to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hu Xu , Saining Xie , Xiaoqing Ellen Tan , Po-Yao Huang , Russell Howes , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Ghosh , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a foundation model and has been applied to various vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent works indicate that CLIP falls short in distinguishing detailed differences in images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinqi Li , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In this paper, a novel contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) model based semantic communication framework is designed. Compared to standard neural network (e.g.,convolutional neural network) based semantic encoders and decoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shaoran Yang , Dongyu Wei , Hanzhi Yu , Zhaohui Yang , Yuchen Liu , Mingzhe Chen

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the performance of Vision and Language tasks. Foundational Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have been leveraged in multiple settings and demonstrated remarkable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Santiago Castro , Amir Ziai , Avneesh Saluja , Zhuoning Yuan , Rada Mihalcea

Multi-label class-incremental learning (MLCIL) continuously expands the label space while recognizing multiple co-occurring classes, making it prone to catastrophic forgetting and high false-positive rates (FPR). Extending CLIP to MLCIL is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kaile Du , Zihan Ye , Junzhou Xie , Yixi Shen , Yuyang Li , Fuyuan Hu , Ling Shao , Guangcan Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Fan Lyu

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. CLIP, have been increasingly used to address the challenging Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) task, benefiting from their well-aligned vision-text embedding space. Typical solutions involve either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Siyu Jiao , Hongguang Zhu , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sho Takishita , Jay Gala , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Kentaro Inui , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Recovering sharp images from dual-pixel (DP) pairs with disparity-dependent blur is a challenging task.~Existing blur map-based deblurring methods have demonstrated promising results. In this paper, we propose, to the best of our knowledge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Hao Yang , Liyuan Pan , Yan Yang , Richard Hartley , Miaomiao Liu

In this paper, we explore a critical yet under-investigated issue: how to learn robust and well-generalized 3D representation from pre-trained vision language models such as CLIP. Previous works have demonstrated that cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shuqing Luo , Bowen Qu , Wei Gao

The recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and the emergence of Diffusion models have significantly streamlined the production of highly realistic and widely accessible synthetic content. As a result, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sohail Ahmed Khan , Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen

Recent research has shown that contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP often lack fine-grained understanding of visual content. While a growing body of work has sought to address this limitation, we identify a distinct failure mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Oscar Chew , Hsiao-Ying Huang , Kunal Jain , Tai-I Chen , Khoa D Doan , Kuan-Hao Huang

Recently, talking face generation has drawn ever-increasing attention from the research community in computer vision due to its arduous challenges and widespread application scenarios, e.g. movie animation and virtual anchor. Although…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jingning Xu , Benlai Tang , Mingjie Wang , Minghao Li , Meirong Ma

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models like CLIP have significantly advanced Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR). However, existing methods predominantly rely on coarse-grained global alignment, which often overlooks the dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yifan Li , Shiying Wang , Jianqiang Huang

Understanding the representation shift on Vision Language Models like CLIP under different augmentations provides valuable insights on Mechanistic Interpretability. In this study, we show the shift on CLIP's embeddings on 9 common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Vision-language models and their adaptations to image segmentation tasks present enormous potential for producing highly accurate and interpretable results. However, implementations based on CLIP and BiomedCLIP are still lagging behind more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Julia Dietlmeier , Oluwabukola Grace Adegboro , Vayangi Ganepola , Claudia Mazo , Noel E. O'Connor

Contrastive learning has emerged as an efficient framework to learn multimodal representations. CLIP, a seminal work in this area, achieved impressive results by training on paired image-text data using the contrastive loss. Recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Enrico Fini , Pietro Astolfi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

During the preceding biennium, vision-language pre-training has achieved noteworthy success on several downstream tasks. Nevertheless, acquiring high-quality image-text pairs, where the pairs are entirely exclusive of each other, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuting Gao , Jinfeng Liu , Zihan Xu , Tong Wu Enwei Zhang , Wei Liu , Jie Yang , Ke Li , Xing Sun