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Can we automatically group images into semantically meaningful clusters when ground-truth annotations are absent? The task of unsupervised image classification remains an important, and open challenge in computer vision. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Marc Proesmans , Luc Van Gool

State-of-the-art supervised stereo matching methods have achieved remarkable performance on various benchmarks. However, their generalization to real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the scarcity of annotated real-world stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xianqi Wang , Hao Yang , Gangwei Xu , Junda Cheng , Min Lin , Yong Deng , Jinliang Zang , Yurui Chen , Xin Yang

Difficult few-shot image recognition has significant application prospects, yet remaining the substantial technical gaps with the conventional large-scale image recognition. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient original method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaofei Qi , Zhitai Liu , Jianbin Qiu

Due to deteriorating environmental conditions and increasing human activity, conservation efforts directed towards wildlife is crucial. Motion-activated camera traps constitute an efficient tool for tracking and monitoring wildlife…

Vision-Language Models for remote sensing have shown promising uses thanks to their extensive pretraining. However, their conventional usage in zero-shot scene classification methods still involves dividing large images into patches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Karim El Khoury , Maxime Zanella , Benoît Gérin , Tiffanie Godelaine , Benoît Macq , Saïd Mahmoudi , Christophe De Vleeschouwer , Ismail Ben Ayed

Camera traps are vital for large-scale biodiversity monitoring, yet accurate automated analysis remains challenging due to diverse deployment environments. While the computer vision community has mostly framed this challenge as cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sooyoung Jeon , Hongjie Tian , Lemeng Wang , Zheda Mai , Vidhi Bakshi , Jiacheng Hou , Ping Zhang , Arpita Chowdhury , Jianyang Gu , Wei-Lun Chao

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

In some of object recognition problems, labeled data may not be available for all categories. Zero-shot learning utilizes auxiliary information (also called signatures) describing each category in order to find a classifier that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Seyed Mohsen Shojaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Deep learning methods for computer vision tasks show promise for automating the data analysis of camera trap images. Ecological camera traps are a common approach for monitoring an ecosystem's animal population, as they provide continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Stefan Schneider , Graham W. Taylor , Stefan C. Kremer

State-of-the-art empirical work has shown that visual representations learned by deep neural networks are robust in nature and capable of performing classification tasks on diverse datasets. For example, CLIP demonstrated zero-shot transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Chanda Grover , Indra Deep Mastan , Debayan Gupta

The zero-shot open-vocabulary challenge in image classification is tackled by pretrained vision-language models like CLIP, which benefit from incorporating class-specific knowledge from large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Zhiyuan Ren , Yiyang Su , Xiaoming Liu

Labeling large image datasets with attributes such as facial age or object type is tedious and sometimes infeasible. Supervised machine learning methods provide a highly accurate solution, but require manual labels which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jonathan Kahana , Niv Cohen , Yedid Hoshen

In microscopy image cell segmentation, it is common to train a deep neural network on source data, containing different types of microscopy images, and then fine-tune it using a support set comprising a few randomly selected and annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Youssef Dawoud , Arij Bouazizi , Katharina Ernst , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

The zero-shot performance of existing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP is limited by the availability of large-scale, aligned image and text datasets in specific domains. In this work, we leverage two complementary sources of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Oindrila Saha , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

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

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is a popular foundation model, supporting from zero-shot classification, retrieval to encoders for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although CLIP is successfully trained on…

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Traditional computer vision models are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories. Recently, natural language has been shown to be a broader and richer source of supervision that provides finer descriptions to visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ruizhe Cheng , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Recent advances in vision-language foundational models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated significant strides in zero-shot classification. However, the extensive parameterization of models like CLIP necessitates a resource-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Qijie Wang , Guandu Liu , Bin Wang

Large-scale pretrained vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot image classification capabilities across diverse domains. To enhance CLIP's performance while preserving the zero-shot paradigm, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xuefeng Hu , Ke Zhang , Min Sun , Albert Chen , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ram Nevatia