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Thanks to the large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP, we can craft a zero-shot classifier by "prompt", e.g., the confidence score of an image being "[CLASS]" can be obtained by using the VLM provided similarity measure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Beier Zhu , Yulei Niu , Yucheng Han , Yue Wu , Hanwang Zhang

Recently, Vision-Language foundation models like CLIP and ALIGN, which are pre-trained on large-scale data have shown remarkable zero-shot generalization to diverse datasets with different classes and even domains. In this work, we take a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Debarshi Brahma , Anuska Roy , Soma Biswas

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

Various Vision Transformer (ViT) models have been widely used for image recognition tasks. However, existing visual explanation methods can not display the attention flow hidden inside the inner structure of ViT models, which explains how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Weichuan Zhang

Interpreting the decision-making process of deep convolutional neural networks remains a central challenge in achieving trustworthy and transparent artificial intelligence. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques, particularly Class Activation Map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hajar Dekdegue , Moncef Garouani , Josiane Mothe , Jordan Bernigaud

Visual explanation (attention)-guided learning uses not only labels but also explanations to guide model reasoning process. While visual attention-guided learning has shown promising results, it requires a large number of explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yifei Zhang , Siyi Gu , Bo Pan , Guangji Bai , Meikang Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang , Liang Zhao

The development and adoption of Vision Transformers and other deep-learning architectures for image classification tasks has been rapid. However, the "black box" nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mariano V. Ntrougkas , Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

Visual prompted object detection enables interactive and flexible definition of target categories, thereby facilitating open-vocabulary detection. Since visual prompts are derived directly from image features, they often outperform text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bo Qian , Dahu Shi , Xing Wei

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Despite their black-box nature, deep learning models are extensively used in image-based drug discovery to extract feature vectors from single cells in microscopy images. To better understand how these networks perform representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Vivek Gopalakrishnan , Jingzhe Ma , Zhiyong Xie

Recent advancements in pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have highlighted the significant potential of prompt tuning for adapting these models to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, existing prompt tuning methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xinyang Wang , Yi Yang , Minfeng Zhu , Kecheng Zheng , Shi Liu , Wei Chen

Prompt tuning is a parameter-efficient way to deploy large-scale pre-trained models to downstream tasks by adding task-specific tokens. In terms of vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models, prompt tuning often requires a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiong Wu , Shubin Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Pingyang Dai , Annan Shu , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

Visual prompt tuning offers significant advantages for adapting pre-trained visual foundation models to specific tasks. However, current research provides limited insight into the interpretability of this approach, which is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , De Cheng , Xiangqian Zhao , Zilong Wang , Dongsheng Li , Cairong Zhao

In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation approach for food images which takes advantage of the zero-shot capabilities and promptability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) along with the attention mechanisms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ioannis Sarafis , Alexandros Papadopoulos , Anastasios Delopoulos

Prompt learning has recently become a very efficient transfer learning paradigm for Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) models. Compared with fine-tuning the entire encoder, prompt learning can obtain highly competitive results by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Guoyizhe Wei , Feng Wang , Anshul Shah , Rama Chellappa

We propose a technique for making Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models more transparent by visualizing input regions that are 'important' for predictions -- or visual explanations. Our approach, called Gradient-weighted Class…

Class Activation Mapping (CAM) is a powerful technique used to understand the decision making of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in computer vision. Recently, there have been attempts not only to generate better visual explanations, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kwang Hee Lee , Chaewon Park , Junghyun Oh , Nojun Kwak

Distilling knowledge from large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into lightweight networks is crucial yet challenging in Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC), due to the reliance on fixed prompts and global alignment. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qiuming Luo , Yuebing Li , Feng Li , Chang Kong

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown competitive accuracy in image classification tasks compared with CNNs. Yet, they generally require much more data for model pre-training. Most of recent works thus are dedicated to designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Bingyi Kang , Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yuan Li , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Fine-grained ingredient recognition presents a significant challenge due to the diverse appearances of ingredients, resulting from different cutting and cooking methods. While existing approaches have shown promising results, they still…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yinxuan Gui , Bin Zhu , Jingjing Chen , Chong-Wah Ngo