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As a pioneering vision-language model, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has achieved significant success across various domains and a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks. However, the text encoders in popular CLIP…

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To achieve disentangled image manipulation, previous works depend heavily on manual annotation. Meanwhile, the available manipulations are limited to a pre-defined set the models were trained for. We propose a novel framework, i.e.,…

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We study the effectiveness of data-balancing for mitigating biases in contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP), identifying areas of strength and limitation. First, we reaffirm prior conclusions that CLIP models can inadvertently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin , Xiao Wang , Andreas Steiner , Priya Goyal , Alexander D'Amour , Xiaohua Zhai

Open-vocabulary image segmentation has been advanced through the synergy between mask generators and vision-language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). Previous approaches focus on generating masks while aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Quan-Sheng Zeng , Yunheng Li , Daquan Zhou , Guanbin Li , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates strong potential in medical image analysis but requires substantial data and computational resources. Due to these restrictions, existing CLIP applications in medical imaging focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuexi Du , John Onofrey , Nicha C. Dvornek

Visual gaze estimation, with its wide-ranging application scenarios, has garnered increasing attention within the research community. Although existing approaches infer gaze solely from image signals, recent advances in visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Wang , Hao Ruan , Liangjian Wen , Yong Dai , Mingjie Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP are trained via contrastive learning between text and image pairs, resulting in aligned image and text embeddings that are useful for many downstream tasks. A notable drawback of CLIP, however, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dylan Sam , Devin Willmott , Joao D. Semedo , J. Zico Kolter

Editing natural images using textual descriptions in text-to-image diffusion models remains a significant challenge, particularly in achieving consistent generation and handling complex, non-rigid objects. Existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dinh-Khoi Vo , Thanh-Toan Do , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

Although image captioning models have made significant advancements in recent years, the majority of them heavily depend on high-quality datasets containing paired images and texts which are costly to acquire. Previous works leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhiyue Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Fanrong Ma

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

Image cropping has progressed tremendously under the data-driven paradigm. However, current approaches do not account for the intentions of the user, which is an issue especially when the composition of the input image is complex. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhihang Zhong , Mingxi Cheng , Zhirong Wu , Yuhui Yuan , Yinqiang Zheng , Ji Li , Han Hu , Stephen Lin , Yoichi Sato , Imari Sato

Contrastive learning has emerged as an efficient framework to learn multimodal representations. CLIP, a seminal work in this area, achieved impressive results by training on paired image-text data using the contrastive loss. Recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Enrico Fini , Pietro Astolfi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

CLIP achieves strong zero-shot image-text retrieval by aligning global vision and text representations, yet it falls behind on fine-grained tasks even when fine-tuned on long, detailed captions. In this work, we propose $\beta$-CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fatimah Zohra , Chen Zhao , Hani Itani , Bernard Ghanem

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

Vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP), have demonstrated impressive results in natural image domains. However, these models often struggle when applied to specialized domains like remote sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sangwoo Mo , Minkyu Kim , Kyungmin Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Contrastive learning has emerged as a pivotal framework for representation learning, underpinning advances in both unimodal and bimodal applications like SimCLR and CLIP. To address fundamental limitations like large batch size dependency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ajay Jagannath , Aayush Upadhyay , Anant Mehta

Video editing and synthesis often introduce object inconsistencies, such as frame flicker and identity drift that degrade perceptual quality. To address these issues, we introduce ObjectAlign, a novel framework that seamlessly blends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mustafa Munir , Harsh Goel , Xiwen Wei , Minkyu Choi , Sahil Shah , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Paul Whatmough , Sandeep Chinchali , Radu Marculescu

Vision-language pretraining models have achieved great success in supporting multimedia applications by understanding the alignments between images and text. While existing vision-language pretraining models primarily focus on understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Fuxiao Liu , Hao Tan , Chris Tensmeyer

Multimodal video summarization requires visual features that align semantically with language generation. Traditional approaches rely on CNN features trained for object classification, which represent visual concepts as discrete categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Richong Zhang , Francesco Setti