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Recent breakthroughs in vision-language models (VLMs) start a new page in the vision community. The VLMs provide stronger and more generalizable feature embeddings compared to those from ImageNet-pretrained models, thanks to the training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jieneng Chen , Qihang Yu , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Vision-language pretraining has driven significant progress in medical image analysis. However, current methods typically supervise visual encoders using one-hot labels or free-form text, neither of which effectively captures the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xiyao Wang , Xiaoyu Tan , Yang Dai , Yuxuan Fu , Shuo Li , Xihe Qiu

Integrating image and text data through multi-modal learning has emerged as a new approach in medical imaging research, following its successful deployment in computer vision. While considerable efforts have been dedicated to establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Fereshteh Shakeri , Yunshi Huang , Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Houda Bahig , An Tang , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Vision-language models (VLMs) are gaining attention in medical image analysis. These are pre-trained on large, heterogeneous data sources, yielding rich and transferable representations. Notably, the combination of modality-specialized VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Fereshteh Shakeri , Houda Bahig , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance of many vision-language tasks, such as image-text retrieval, visual entailment, and visual reasoning. The pre-training mostly utilizes lexical databases and image queries in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yasmine Karoui , Rémi Lebret , Negar Foroutan , Karl Aberer

Multimodal pre-trained models, such as CLIP, are popular for zero-shot classification due to their open-vocabulary flexibility and high performance. However, vision-language models, which compute similarity scores between images and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mia Chiquier , Utkarsh Mall , Carl Vondrick

Classification of pathological images is the basis for automatic cancer diagnosis. Despite that deep learning methods have achieved remarkable performance, they heavily rely on labeled data, demanding extensive human annotation efforts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Lanfeng Zhong , Zongyao Huang , Yang Liu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Current pre-trained vison-language models (PVLMs) achieve excellent performance on a range of multi-modal datasets. Recent work has aimed at building multilingual models, and a range of novel multilingual multi-modal datasets have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hanxu Hu , Frank Keller

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained at large scale have shown unprecedented transferability capabilities and are being progressively integrated into medical image analysis. Although its discriminative potential has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Leo Fillioux , Paul-Henry Cournède , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant success in recent years, and they have been extended to the medical domain. Although demonstrating satisfactory performance on medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Danfeng Guo , Demetri Terzopoulos

Pre-trained multi-modal vision-language models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly popular due to their exceptional performance on downstream vision applications, particularly in the few- and zero-shot settings. However, selecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Orr Zohar , Shih-Cheng Huang , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Serena Yeung

Current Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) excel at many zero-shot tasks like image captioning, visual question answering and OCR. However, these same models suffer from poor performance at image classification tasks, underperforming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Adhemar de Senneville , Xavier Bou , Jérémy Anger , Rafael Grompone , Gabriele Facciolo

Image-based visual-language (I-VL) pre-training has shown great success for learning joint visual-textual representations from large-scale web data, revealing remarkable ability for zero-shot generalisation. This paper presents a simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Chen Ju , Tengda Han , Kunhao Zheng , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

In histopathology, tissue sections are typically stained using common H&E staining or special stains (MAS, PAS, PASM, etc.) to clearly visualize specific tissue structures. The rapid advancement of deep learning offers an effective solution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Zizhi Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Minghao Han , Yizhou Liu , Ziyun Qian , Weifeng Zhang , Xukun Zhang , Jingwei Wei , Lihua Zhang

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Vision-Language models (VLMs) that use contrastive language-image pre-training have shown promising zero-shot classification performance. However, their performance on imbalanced dataset is relatively poor, where the distribution of classes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yidong Wang , Zhuohao Yu , Jindong Wang , Qiang Heng , Hao Chen , Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Xing Xie , Shikun Zhang

This paper presents VisLingInstruct, a novel approach to advancing Multi-Modal Language Models (MMLMs) in zero-shot learning. Current MMLMs show impressive zero-shot abilities in multi-modal tasks, but their performance depends heavily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Dongsheng Zhu , Xunzhu Tang , Weidong Han , Jinghui Lu , Yukun Zhao , Guoliang Xing , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a novel challenging task that lies between linguistic sense disambiguation and fine-grained multimodal retrieval. The recent advancements in the development of visiolinguistic (VL) transformers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anastasia Kritharoula , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Vision language models (VLM) pre-trained on datasets of histopathological image-caption pairs enabled zero-shot slide-level classification. The ability of VLM image encoders to extract discriminative features also opens the door for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

This paper proposes Comprehensive Pathology Language Image Pre-training (CPLIP), a new unsupervised technique designed to enhance the alignment of images and text in histopathology for tasks such as classification and segmentation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun