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Visual-language models such as CLIP provide powerful general-purpose representations, but their raw embeddings are not optimized for supervised classification, often exhibiting limited class separation and excessive dimensionality. We…

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Self-supervised vision-language models trained with contrastive objectives form the basis of current state-of-the-art methods in AI vision tasks. The success of these models is a direct consequence of the huge web-scale datasets used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Victor Akinwande , Mohammad Sadegh Norouzzadeh , Devin Willmott , Anna Bair , Madan Ravi Ganesh , J. Zico Kolter

Contrastive vision-language models like CLIP have shown great progress in transfer learning. In the inference stage, the proper text description, also known as prompt, needs to be carefully designed to correctly classify the given images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tony Huang , Jack Chu , Fangyun Wei

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot learning abilities for image understanding, yet limited effort has been made to investigate CLIP for zero-shot video recognition. We introduce Open-VCLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zejia Weng , Xitong Yang , Ang Li , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Transductive inference has been widely investigated in few-shot image classification, but completely overlooked in the recent, fast growing literature on adapting vision-langage models like CLIP. This paper addresses the transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ségolène Martin , Yunshi Huang , Fereshteh Shakeri , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Ismail Ben Ayed

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance significantly degrades in cross-domain scenarios with scarce target-domain training data (Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning, CDFSL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Multi-modal (vision-language) models, such as CLIP, are replacing traditional supervised pre-training models (e.g., ImageNet-based pre-training) as the new generation of visual foundation models. These models with robust and aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Fan Liu , Tianshu Zhang , Wenwen Dai , Wenwen Cai , Xiaocong Zhou , Delong Chen

Large pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning representations that are transferable across a wide range of downstream tasks. Different from the traditional representation learning that is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kaiyang Zhou , Jingkang Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Few-shot object detection, which focuses on detecting novel objects with few labels, is an emerging challenge in the community. Recent studies show that adapting a pre-trained model or modified loss function can improve performance. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Min Jae Jung , Seung Dae Han , Joohee Kim

Few-shot learning (FSL) often requires effective adaptation of models using limited labeled data. However, most existing FSL methods rely on entangled representations, requiring the model to implicitly recover the unmixing process to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Yuhang Liu , Javen Qinfeng Shi

CLIP is a foundational model with transferable classification performance in the few-shot setting. Several methods have shown improved performance of CLIP using few-shot examples. However, so far, all these techniques have been benchmarked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alexey Kravets , Da Chen , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has been widely used in various downstream vision tasks. The few-shot learning paradigm has been widely adopted to augment its capacity for these tasks. However, current paradigms may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jintao Rong , Hao Chen , Linlin Ou , Tianxiao Chen , Xinyi Yu , Yifan Liu

Fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models, like CLIP, has yielded success on diverse downstream tasks. However, several pain points persist for this paradigm: (i) directly tuning entire pre-trained models becomes both time-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chenyu You , Yifei Min , Weicheng Dai , Jasjeet S. Sekhon , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Low-shot image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision, and the emergence of large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP has greatly advanced the forefront of research in this field. However, most existing CLIP-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yibo Miao , Yu Lei , Feng Zhou , Zhijie Deng

Leveraging the rich semantic features of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP for monocular depth estimation tasks is a promising direction, yet often requires extensive fine-tuning or lacks geometric precision. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Reyhaneh Ahani Manghotay , Jie Liang

While vision-language models like CLIP have advanced zero-shot surgical phase recognition, they struggle with fine-grained surgical activities, especially action triplets. This limitation arises because current CLIP formulations rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-30 Saurav Sharma , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Large pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of image classification tasks, without requiring retraining. Few-shot CLIP is competitive with existing specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Dominykas Seputis , Serghei Mihailov , Soham Chatterjee , Zehao Xiao

Recent advances in contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) have demonstrated strong capabilities in zero-shot classification by aligning visual representations with target text embeddings in an image level. However, in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Feng Wang , Jieru Mei , Alan Yuille

Despite their impressive zero-shot abilities, vision-language models such as CLIP have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. To enhance its adversarial robustness, recent studies finetune the pretrained vision encoder of CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Songlong Xing , Weijie Wang , Zhengyu Zhao , Jindong Gu , Philip Torr , Nicu Sebe

Recently, zero-shot and few-shot learning via Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) have shown inspirational performance on 2D visual recognition, which learns to match images with their corresponding texts in open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wei Zhang , Kunchang Li , Xupeng Miao , Bin Cui , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li