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Detailed image captioning is essential for tasks like data generation and aiding visually impaired individuals. High-quality captions require a balance between precision and recall, which remains challenging for current multimodal large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mingi Jung , Saehyung Lee , Eunji Kim , Sungroh Yoon

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

Image-Text pretraining on web-scale image caption datasets has become the default recipe for open vocabulary classification and retrieval models thanks to the success of CLIP and its variants. Several works have also used CLIP features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Yongqin Xian , Xiaohua Zhai , Lukas Hoyer , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model excels in few-shot learning by aligning visual and textual representations. Our study shows that template-sample similarity (TSS), defined as the resemblance between a text template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li

Continual learning (CL) enables deep networks to acquire new knowledge while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. The powerful generalization ability of pre-trained models (PTMs), such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Haodong Lu , Xinyu Zhang , Kristen Moore , Jason Xue , Lina Yao , Anton van den Hengel , Dong Gong

Language-image pre-training largely relies on how precisely and thoroughly a text describes its paired image. In practice, however, the contents of an image can be so rich that well describing them requires lengthy captions (e.g., with 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kecheng Zheng , Yifei Zhang , Wei Wu , Fan Lu , Shuailei Ma , Xin Jin , Wei Chen , Yujun Shen

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Instruction tuning enhances the instruction following ability of large language models by finetuning with supervised instruction data. Previous work proposes in-context instruction tuning (ICIT) where specific positive or negative examples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tianci Xue , Ziqi Wang , Yixia Li , Yun Chen , Guanhua Chen

This study aims to explore efficient tuning methods for the screenshot captioning task. Recently, image captioning has seen significant advancements, but research in captioning tasks for mobile screens remains relatively scarce. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ching-Yu Chiang , I-Hua Chang , Shih-Wei Liao

The increase of web-scale weakly labelled image-text pairs have greatly facilitated the development of large-scale vision-language models (e.g., CLIP), which have shown impressive generalization performance over a series of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Lianyu Hu , Tongkai Shi , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Wei Feng

Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) has received widespread attention, since its learned representations can be transferred well to various downstream tasks. During the training process of the CLIP model, the InfoNCE objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Delong Chen , Zhao Wu , Fan Liu , Zaiquan Yang , Huaxi Huang , Ying Tan , Erjin Zhou

Recent progress has shown that large-scale pre-training using contrastive image-text pairs can be a promising alternative for high-quality visual representation learning from natural language supervision. Benefiting from a broader source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Guangyi Chen , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Modern image captioning models are usually trained with text similarity objectives. However, since reference captions in public datasets often describe the most salient common objects, models trained with text similarity objectives tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jaemin Cho , Seunghyun Yoon , Ajinkya Kale , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal

Image captioning has long been regarded as a fundamental task in visual understanding. Recently, however, few large vision-language model (LVLM) research discusses model's image captioning performance because of the outdated short-caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hongyuan Dong , Jiawen Li , Bohong Wu , Jiacong Wang , Yuan Zhang , Haoyuan Guo

Image captioning systems are unable to generate fine-grained captions as they are trained on data that is either noisy (alt-text) or generic (human annotations). This is further exacerbated by maximum likelihood training that encourages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Manu Gaur , Darshan Singh , Makarand Tapaswi

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) stands as one of the most effective and scalable methods for training transferable vision models using paired image and text data. CLIP models are trained using contrastive loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lijie Fan , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola , Dina Katabi , Yonglong Tian

The development of CLIP [Radford et al., 2021] has sparked a debate on whether language supervision can result in vision models with more transferable representations than traditional image-only methods. Our work studies this question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shibani Santurkar , Yann Dubois , Rohan Taori , Percy Liang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Despite significant results achieved by Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) in zero-shot image recognition, limited effort has been made exploring its potential for zero-shot video recognition. This paper presents Open-VCLIP++, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zuxuan Wu , Zejia Weng , Wujian Peng , Xitong Yang , Ang Li , Larry S. Davis , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities and can quickly adapt to downstream tasks through prompt fine-tuning. Unfortunately, in classification tasks involving non-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Song-Lin Lv , Yu-Yang Chen , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

The Controllable Image Captioning (CIC) task aims to generate captions conditioned on designated control signals. Several structure-related control signals are proposed to control the semantic structure of sentences, such as sentence length…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zhangzi Zhu , Tianlei Wang , Hong Qu