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Vision and Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have enabled visual recognition of a potentially unlimited set of categories described by text prompts. However, for the best visual recognition performance, these models still require tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Leonid Karlinsky , Wei Lin , Horst Possegger , Rogerio Feris , Horst Bischof

State-of-the-art weakly supervised text classification methods, while significantly reduced the required human supervision, still requires the supervision to cover all the classes of interest. This is never easy to meet in practice when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Tianle Wang , Zihan Wang , Weitang Liu , Jingbo Shang

This paper presents a simple unsupervised visual representation learning method with a pretext task of discriminating all images in a dataset using a parametric, instance-level classifier. The overall framework is a replica of a supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yu Liu , Lianghua Huang , Pan Pan , Bin Wang , Yinghui Xu , Rong Jin

This paper presents a CLIP-based unsupervised learning method for annotation-free multi-label image classification, including three stages: initialization, training, and inference. At the initialization stage, we take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Rabab Abdelfattah , Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Xiaofeng Wang , Song Wang

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved remarkable success across various downstream tasks, but such gains are largely driven by scaling up on training data. Yet, literature methods treat image-text pairs as isolated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wenbo Lu

Contrastive vision-language pre-training frameworks such as CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across a range of vision-language tasks. Recent studies have shown that aligning individual text tokens with specific image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Masaki Kawamura , Nakamasa Inoue , Rintaro Yanagi , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Rio Yokota

The CLIP network measures the similarity between natural text and images; in this work, we investigate the entanglement of the representation of word images and natural images in its image encoder. First, we find that the image encoder has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Joanna Materzynska , Antonio Torralba , David Bau

Large-scale vision 2D vision language models, such as CLIP can be aligned with a 3D encoder to learn generalizable (open-vocabulary) 3D vision models. However, current methods require supervised pre-training for such alignment, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Amaya Dharmasiri , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has made a remarkable breakthrough in open-vocabulary zero-shot image recognition. Many recent studies leverage the pre-trained CLIP models for image-level classification and manipulation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Chong Zhou , Chen Change Loy , Bo Dai

This work aims to adapt large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP), to enhance the performance of object reidentification (Re-ID) across various supervision settings. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiachen Li , Xiaojin Gong

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is an approach that has advanced research and applications in computer vision, fueling modern recognition systems and generative models. We believe that the main ingredient to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hu Xu , Saining Xie , Xiaoqing Ellen Tan , Po-Yao Huang , Russell Howes , Vasu Sharma , Shang-Wen Li , Gargi Ghosh , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Vision-language contrastive learning frameworks such as CLIP enable learning representations from natural language supervision and provide strong zero-shot classification capabilities. However, due to the nature of the supervisory signal in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mohammed Baharoon , Jonathan Klein , Dominik L. Michels

Large-scale image-text contrastive pre-training models, such as CLIP, have been demonstrated to effectively learn high-quality multimodal representations. However, there is limited research on learning video-text representations for general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Fan Ma , Zhicheng Huang , Xiaojie Jin , Zikang Liu , Dongmei Fu , Yi Yang , Jing Liu , Jiashi Feng

We observe that the mapping between an image's representation in one model to its representation in another can be learned surprisingly well with just a linear layer, even across diverse models. Building on this observation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mazda Moayeri , Keivan Rezaei , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi

The unsupervised pretraining of object detectors has recently become a key component of object detector training, as it leads to improved performance and faster convergence during the supervised fine-tuning stage. Existing unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Adrian Bulat , Ioannis Patras , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

The Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has significantly advanced vision-language modeling by aligning image-text pairs from large-scale web data through self-supervised contrastive learning. Yet, its reliance on uncurated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Yao , Haiyang Zhao , Yimin Chen , Jiawei Guo , Kecheng Huang , Ming Zhao

To improve performance in visual feature representation from photos or videos for practical applications, we generally require large-scale human-annotated labeled data while training deep neural networks. However, the cost of gathering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhenyuan Lu

Image clustering is an important and open-challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have been proposed to solve the image clustering task, they only explore images and uncover clusters according to the image features, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaotian Cai , Liping Qiu , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Longteng Chen

In this paper we deal with image classification tasks using the powerful CLIP vision-language model. Our goal is to advance the classification performance using the CLIP's image encoder, by proposing a novel Large Multimodal Model (LMM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maria Tzelepi , Vasileios Mezaris

The crux of learning vision-language models is to extract semantically aligned information from visual and linguistic data. Existing attempts usually face the problem of coarse alignment, e.g., the vision encoder struggles in localizing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qinying Liu , Wei Wu , Kecheng Zheng , Zhan Tong , Jiawei Liu , Yu Liu , Wei Chen , Zilei Wang , Yujun Shen