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The ability to quickly learn a new task with minimal instruction - known as few-shot learning - is a central aspect of intelligent agents. Classical few-shot benchmarks make use of few-shot samples from a single modality, but such samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhiqiu Lin , Samuel Yu , Zhiyi Kuang , Deepak Pathak , Deva Ramanan

The recent CLIP-based methods have shown promising zero-shot and few-shot performance on image classification tasks. Existing approaches such as CoOp and Tip-Adapter only focus on high-level visual features that are fully aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiaying Shi , Xuetong Xue , Shenghui Xu

The aim of multi-label few-shot image classification (ML-FSIC) is to assign semantic labels to images, in settings where only a small number of training examples are available for each label. A key feature of the multi-label setting is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Fangyun Wei , Chang Xu , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

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

Numerous methods have been proposed to adapt a pre-trained foundational CLIP model for few-shot classification. As CLIP is trained on a large corpus, it generalises well through adaptation to few-shot classification. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Alexey Kravets , Vinay Namboodiri

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on natural image and language data, such as CLIP, have exhibited significant potential in few-shot image recognition tasks, leading to development of various efficient transfer learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Dexia Chen , Wentao Zhang , Qianjie Zhu , Ping Hu , Weibing Li , Tong Zhang , Ruixuan Wang

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park

Recent advances in histopathology vision-language foundation models (VLFMs) have shown promise in addressing data scarcity for whole slide image (WSI) classification via zero-shot adaptation. However, these methods remain outperformed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tianqi Xiang , Yi Li , Qixiang Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

Few-shot learning is devoted to training a model on few samples. Most of these approaches learn a model based on a pixel-level or global-level feature representation. However, using global features may lose local information, and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, the multi-modal feature spaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Dewei Feng , Sekitoshi Kanai , Kazuki Adachi , Daiki Chijiwa

Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensively reviews modality-based feature matching, exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Weide Liu , Wei Zhou , Jun Liu , Ping Hu , Jun Cheng , Jungong Han , Weisi Lin

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) provides a foundation model by integrating natural language into visual concepts, enabling zero-shot recognition on downstream tasks. It is usually expected that satisfactory overall accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jie-Jing Shao , Jiang-Xin Shi , Xiao-Wen Yang , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Text-image cross-modal retrieval is a challenging task in the field of language and vision. Most previous approaches independently embed images and sentences into a joint embedding space and compare their similarities. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zihao Wang , Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang , Jing Shao

Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (SF-CDFSL) focuses on fine-tuning with limited training data from target domains (e.g., medical or satellite images), where Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP and SigLIP have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenyu Zhang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li , Guangyao Chen

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often omit or misrepresent critical visual content in generated image captions. Minimizing such information loss will force LVLMs to focus on image details to generate precise descriptions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haonan Jia , Shichao Dong , Xin Dong , Zenghui Sun , Jin Wang , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng , Kaifu Zhang

The application of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. Existing methods attempt to optimize input text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhongxing Xu , Feilong Tang , Zhe Chen , Yingxue Su , Zhiyi Zhao , Ge Zhang , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

Remote sensing applications increasingly rely on deep learning for scene classification. However, their performance is often constrained by the scarcity of labeled data and the high cost of annotation across diverse geographic and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ivica Dimitrovski , Vlatko Spasev , Ivan Kitanovski

With the surge in available data from various modalities, there is a growing need to bridge the gap between different data types. In this work, we introduce a novel approach to learn cross-modal representations between image data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Watkinson Gabriel , Cohen Ethan , Bourriez Nicolas , Bendidi Ihab , Bollot Guillaume , Genovesio Auguste