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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly boosted the performance of various vision-language tasks by scaling up the dataset with image-text pairs collected from the web. However, the presence of intrinsic noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kaicheng Yang , Jiankang Deng , Xiang An , Jiawei Li , Ziyong Feng , Jia Guo , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization…

In multimodal learning, CLIP has been recognized as the \textit{de facto} method for learning a shared latent space across multiple modalities, placing similar representations close to each other and moving them away from dissimilar ones.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Eleonora Grassucci , Giordano Cicchetti , Emanuele Frasca , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) uses contrastive learning from noise image-text pairs to excel at recognizing a wide array of candidates, yet its focus on broad associations hinders the precision in distinguishing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ziyu Liu , Zeyi Sun , Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Pre-trained vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP have shown excellent performance in many downstream cross-modal tasks. However, most of them are only applicable to the English context. Subsequent research has focused on this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Wenbo Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Jianfeng Lin , Binqiang Huang , Jinlu Zhang , Wenhao Yu

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

Recently, there have been breakthroughs in computer vision ("CV") models that are more generalizable with the advent of models such as CLIP and ALIGN. In this paper, we analyze CLIP and highlight some of the challenges such models pose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Sandhini Agarwal , Gretchen Krueger , Jack Clark , Alec Radford , Jong Wook Kim , Miles Brundage

Large-scale pre-trained image-text models demonstrate remarkable versatility across diverse tasks, benefiting from their robust representational capabilities and effective multimodal alignment. We extend the application of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Vision-Language (V-L) pre-trained models such as CLIP show prominent capabilities in various downstream tasks. Despite this promise, V-L models are notoriously limited by their inherent social biases. A typical demonstration is that V-L…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Haoyu Zhang , Yangyang Guo , Mohan Kankanhalli

Training a referring expression comprehension (ReC) model for a new visual domain requires collecting referring expressions, and potentially corresponding bounding boxes, for images in the domain. While large-scale pre-trained models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjay Subramanian , William Merrill , Trevor Darrell , Matt Gardner , Sameer Singh , Anna Rohrbach

Contrastive image-text models such as CLIP form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art systems. While they excel at recognizing common generic concepts, they still struggle on fine-grained entities which are rare, or even absent from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Recognizing the activities causing distraction in real-world driving scenarios is critical for ensuring the safety and reliability of both drivers and pedestrians on the roadways. Conventional computer vision techniques are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Md Zahid Hasan , Jiajing Chen , Jiyang Wang , Mohammed Shaiqur Rahman , Ameya Joshi , Senem Velipasalar , Chinmay Hegde , Anuj Sharma , Soumik Sarkar

Foundational Vision-Language models such as CLIP have exhibited impressive generalization in downstream tasks. However, CLIP suffers from a two-level misalignment issue, i.e., task misalignment and data misalignment, when adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yanan Zhang , Jiangmeng Li , Lixiang Liu , Wenwen Qiang

Continual learning (CL) aims to help deep neural networks learn new knowledge while retaining what has been learned. Owing to their powerful generalizability, pre-trained vision-language models such as Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Saurav Jha , Dong Gong , Lina Yao

To ease the difficulty of acquiring annotation labels in 3D data, a common method is using unsupervised and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, which leverage 2D CLIP semantic knowledge. In this paper, unlike previous research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fuyang Yu , Runze Tian , Zhen Wang , Xiaochuan Wang , Xiaohui Liang

This paper studies co-segmenting the common semantic object in a set of images. Existing works either rely on carefully engineered networks to mine the implicit semantic information in visual features or require extra data (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xin Duan , Yan Yang , Liyuan Pan , Xiabi Liu

The synergy between generative and discriminative models receives growing attention. While discriminative Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) excels in high-level semantics, it struggles with perceiving fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shijie Ma , Yuying Ge , Teng Wang , Yuxin Guo , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan

Density ratio estimation is a core concept in statistical machine learning because it provides a unified mechanism for tasks such as importance weighting, divergence estimation, and likelihood-free inference, but its potential in vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fumiya Uchiyama , Rintaro Yanagi , Shohei Taniguchi , Shota Takashiro , Masahiro Suzuki , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

While the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining(CLIP) model has achieved remarkable success in a variety of downstream vison language understanding tasks, enhancing its capability for fine-grained image-text alignment remains an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yicheng Xiao , Yu Chen , Haoxuan Ma , Jiale Hong , Caorui Li , Lingxiang Wu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

Large-scale datasets have been pivotal to the advancements of deep learning models in recent years, but training on such large datasets invariably incurs substantial storage and computational overhead. Meanwhile, real-world datasets often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Suorong Yang , Peng Ye , Wanli Ouyang , Dongzhan Zhou , Furao Shen