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The contrastive vision-language pre-training, known as CLIP, demonstrates remarkable potential in perceiving open-world visual concepts, enabling effective zero-shot image recognition. Nevertheless, few-shot learning methods based on CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Cheng Cheng , Lin Song , Ruoyi Xue , Hang Wang , Hongbin Sun , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan

In the literature, several studies have shown that state-of-the-art image similarity metrics are not perceptual metrics; moreover, they have difficulty evaluating images, especially when texture distortion is also present. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Antonio Di Marino , Vincenzo Bevilacqua , Emanuel Di Nardo , Angelo Ciaramella , Ivanoe De Falco , Giovanna Sannino

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP, despite having remarkable generalization ability, are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples. This work studies the adversarial robustness of VLMs from the novel perspective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lin Li , Haoyan Guan , Jianing Qiu , Michael Spratling

Convolutional neural network-based medical image classifiers have been shown to be especially susceptible to adversarial examples. Such instabilities are likely to be unacceptable in the future of automated diagnoses. Though statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Isaac Wasserman

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples, posing a significant security risk in critical applications. Adversarial Training (AT) is a well-established technique to enhance adversarial robustness, but it often comes at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kaijie Zhu , Jindong Wang , Xixu Hu , Xing Xie , Ge Yang

This paper proposes a new end-to-end trainable model for lossy image compression, which includes several novel components. The method incorporates 1) an adequate perceptual similarity metric; 2) saliency in the images; 3) a hierarchical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Yash Patel , Srikar Appalaraju , R. Manmatha

Recent efforts have repurposed the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) by measuring the cosine similarity between the image embedding and textual prompts such as "a good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhicheng Liao , Dongxu Wu , Zhenshan Shi , Sijie Mai , Hanwei Zhu , Lingyu Zhu , Yuncheng Jiang , Baoliang Chen

Multimodal models, such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model, have demonstrated remarkable success in aligning visual and linguistic representations. However, these models exhibit limitations when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hiroshi Sasaki

Deep Learning (DL) is undergoing a paradigm shift with the emergence of foundation models. In this work, we focus on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a Vision-Language foundation model that achieves high accuracy across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Angelos Zavras , Dimitrios Michail , Begüm Demir , Ioannis Papoutsis

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot classification ability, namely image classification using novel text labels. Existing works have attempted to enhance CLIP by fine-tuning on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Seongha Eom , Namgyu Ho , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

We propose a novel unsupervised backlit image enhancement method, abbreviated as CLIP-LIT, by exploring the potential of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) for pixel-level image enhancement. We show that the open-world CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhexin Liang , Chongyi Li , Shangchen Zhou , Ruicheng Feng , Chen Change Loy

Density ratio estimation is a core concept in statistical machine learning because it provides a unified mechanism for tasks such as importance weighting, divergence estimation, and likelihood-free inference, but its potential in vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fumiya Uchiyama , Rintaro Yanagi , Shohei Taniguchi , Shota Takashiro , Masahiro Suzuki , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

A small but growing body of work has shown that machine learning models which better align with human vision have also exhibited higher robustness to adversarial examples, raising the question: can human-like perception make models more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Blaine Hoak , Kunyang Li , Patrick McDaniel

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is a widely used multimodal model that aligns text and image representations through large-scale training. While it performs strongly on zero-shot and few-shot tasks, its robustness to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Udo Schlegel , Franziska Weeber , Jian Lan , Thomas Seidl

Defending pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, against adversarial attacks is crucial, as these models are widely used in diverse zero-shot tasks, including image classification. However, existing adversarial training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Futa Waseda , Saku Sugawara , Isao Echizen

Recent advances in contrastive representation learning over paired image-text data have led to models such as CLIP that achieve state-of-the-art performance for zero-shot classification and distributional robustness. Such models typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Shashank Goel , Hritik Bansal , Sumit Bhatia , Ryan A. Rossi , Vishwa Vinay , Aditya Grover

Multi-modal contrastive models such as CLIP achieve state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot classification by embedding input images and texts on a joint representational space. Recently, a modality gap has been reported in two-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Abrar Fahim , Alex Murphy , Alona Fyshe

Existing deep neural networks, say for image classification, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial images that can cause a DNN misclassification, without any perceptible change to an image. In this work, we propose shock absorbing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Kevin Eykholt , Swati Gupta , Atul Prakash , Amir Rahmati , Pratik Vaishnavi , Haizhong Zheng

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

Adversarial examples raise questions about whether neural network models are sensitive to the same visual features as humans. In this paper, we first detect adversarial examples or otherwise corrupted images based on a class-conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yao Qin , Nicholas Frosst , Sara Sabour , Colin Raffel , Garrison Cottrell , Geoffrey Hinton