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Image clustering is an important and open-challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have been proposed to solve the image clustering task, they only explore images and uncover clusters according to the image features, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaotian Cai , Liping Qiu , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Longteng Chen

Benefiting from large-scale vision-language pre-training on image-text pairs, open-world detection methods have shown superior generalization ability under the zero-shot or few-shot detection settings. However, a pre-defined category space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yanxin Long , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Pengzhen Ren , Wei Zhang , Shen Zhao , Xiaodan Liang

Video detailed captioning aims to generate comprehensive video descriptions to facilitate video understanding. Recently, most efforts in the video detailed captioning community have been made towards a local-to-global paradigm, which first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wan Xu , Feng Zhu , Yihan Zeng , Yuanfan Guo , Ming Liu , Hang Xu , Wangmeng Zuo

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

With the rapid growth of video data on the internet, video summarization is becoming a very important AI technology. However, due to the high labelling cost of video summarization, existing studies have to be conducted on small-scale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Cairong Zhao , Chutian Wang , Zifan Song , Guosheng Hu , Haonan Chen , Xiaofan Zhai

Data-driven speech processing models usually perform well with a large amount of text supervision, but collecting transcribed speech data is costly. Therefore, we propose SpeechCLIP, a novel framework bridging speech and text through images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yi-Jen Shih , Hsuan-Fu Wang , Heng-Jui Chang , Layne Berry , Hung-yi Lee , David Harwath

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, have been successfully applied to zero-shot semantic segmentation. Existing CLIP-based approaches primarily utilize visual features from the last layer to align with text embeddings, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yunheng Li , ZhongYu Li , Quansheng Zeng , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Previous works show that noisy, web-crawled image-text pairs may limit vision-language pretraining like CLIP and propose learning with synthetic captions as a promising alternative. Our work continues this effort, introducing two simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yanqing Liu , Xianhang Li , Zeyu Wang , Bingchen Zhao , Cihang Xie

There are a thousand ways to caption an image. Contrastive Language Pretraining (CLIP) on the other hand, works by mapping an image and its caption to a single vector -- limiting how well CLIP-like models can represent the diverse ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Samuel Lavoie , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim , Mahmoud Assran , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Aaron Courville , Nicolas Ballas

Existing vision-text contrastive learning like CLIP aims to match the paired image and caption embeddings while pushing others apart, which improves representation transferability and supports zero-shot prediction. However, medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zifeng Wang , Zhenbang Wu , Dinesh Agarwal , Jimeng Sun

The aim of image captioning is to generate textual description of a given image. Though seemingly an easy task for humans, it is challenging for machines as it requires the ability to comprehend the image (computer vision) and consequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Anubhav Shrimal , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Verifying the authenticity of AI-generated images presents a growing challenge on social media platforms these days. While vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP outdo in multimodal representation, their capacity for AI-generated image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ziyang Ou

Image captioning systems often produce generic descriptions that fail to capture event-level semantics which are crucial for applications like news reporting and digital archiving. We present ReCap, a novel pipeline for event-enriched image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Thinh-Phuc Nguyen , Thanh-Hai Nguyen , Gia-Huy Dinh , Lam-Huy Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

In the field of vision-language contrastive learning, models such as CLIP capitalize on matched image-caption pairs as positive examples and leverage within-batch non-matching pairs as negatives. This approach has led to remarkable outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Maxwell Aladago , Lorenzo Torresani , Soroush Vosoughi

In this paper, we present our solution to the New frontiers for Zero-shot Image Captioning Challenge. Different from the traditional image captioning datasets, this challenge includes a larger new variety of visual concepts from many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xiangyu Wu , Yi Gao , Hailiang Zhang , Yang Yang , Weili Guo , Jianfeng Lu

Attention mechanisms have attracted considerable interest in image captioning due to its powerful performance. However, existing methods use only visual content as attention and whether textual context can improve attention in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Luowei Zhou , Chenliang Xu , Parker Koch , Jason J. Corso

This paper describes our zero-shot approaches for the Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) Task in English. Our preliminary study shows that the simple approach of matching candidate images with the phrase using CLIP suffers from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jie S. Li , Yow-Ting Shiue , Yong-Siang Shih , Jonas Geiping

Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch

News Image Captioning requires describing an image by leveraging additional context from a news article. Previous works only coarsely leverage the article to extract the necessary context, which makes it challenging for models to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Mingyang Zhou , Grace Luo , Anna Rohrbach , Zhou Yu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang