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Open-vocabulary segmentation is a challenging task requiring segmenting and recognizing objects from an open set of categories. One way to address this challenge is to leverage multi-modal models, such as CLIP, to provide image and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xueqing Deng , Xiaohui Shen , Liang-Chieh Chen

Vision language models have played a key role in extracting meaningful features for various robotic applications. Among these, Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is widely used in robotic tasks that require both vision and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Nghia Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Tung D. Ta , Baoru Huang , Thieu Vo , Ngan Le , Anh Nguyen

Several benchmarks have concluded that our best vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) are lacking in compositionality. Given an image, these benchmarks probe a model's ability to identify its associated caption amongst a set of compositional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Amita Kamath , Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Kai-Wei Chang , Ranjay Krishna

Vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP), have demonstrated impressive results in natural image domains. However, these models often struggle when applied to specialized domains like remote sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sangwoo Mo , Minkyu Kim , Kyungmin Lee , Jinwoo Shin

In this paper, we demonstrate that CLIP can also be adapted to downstream tasks where its vision-language alignment is suboptimally learned during pre-training on web-crawled data, all without requiring fine-tuning. We explore the case of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sohee Kim , Jisu Kang , Dunam Kim , Seokju Lee

In the field of vision-language contrastive learning, models such as CLIP capitalize on matched image-caption pairs as positive examples and leverage within-batch non-matching pairs as negatives. This approach has led to remarkable outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Maxwell Aladago , Lorenzo Torresani , Soroush Vosoughi

Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sachin Mehta , Maxwell Horton , Fartash Faghri , Mohammad Hossein Sekhavat , Mahyar Najibi , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Oncel Tuzel , Mohammad Rastegari

Contrastive language-image pre-training, CLIP for short, has gained increasing attention for its potential in various scenarios. In this paper, we propose EVA-CLIP, a series of models that significantly improve the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quan Sun , Yuxin Fang , Ledell Wu , Xinlong Wang , Yue Cao

Multimodal fusion breaks through the boundaries between diverse modalities and has already achieved notable performances. However, in many specialized fields, it is struggling to obtain sufficient alignment data for training, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zijia Song , Zelin Zang , Yelin Wang , Guozheng Yang , Kaicheng yu , Wanyu Chen , Miaoyu Wang , Stan Z. Li

Fine-grained visual classification aims to recognize objects belonging to many subordinate categories of a supercategory, where appearance alone often fails to distinguish highly similar classes. We propose a unified framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sumit Mamtani , Yash Thesia

Significant progress has been made in recent years in image captioning, an active topic in the fields of vision and language. However, existing methods tend to yield overly general captions and consist of some of the most frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jie Wu , Tianshui Chen , Hefeng Wu , Zhi Yang , Guangchun Luo , Liang Lin

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, establish the correlation between texts and images, achieving remarkable success on various downstream tasks with fine-tuning. In existing fine-tuning methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained (CLIP) models have zero-shot ability of classifying an image belonging to "[CLASS]" by using similarity between the image and the prompt sentence "a [CONTEXT] of [CLASS]". Based on exhaustive text cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaojun Jia , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Zhao Li

CLIP is a powerful and widely used tool for understanding images in the context of natural language descriptions to perform nuanced tasks. However, it does not offer application-specific fine-grained and structured understanding, due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ada-Astrid Balauca , Danda Pani Paudel , Kristina Toutanova , Luc Van Gool

The original CLIP text encoder is limited by a maximum input length of 77 tokens, which hampers its ability to effectively process long texts and perform fine-grained semantic understanding. In addition, the CLIP text encoder lacks support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaoxing Hu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyang Gong , Qi Ming , Zonghao Guo , Yu Tian , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Xue Yang

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in image-text contrastive modeling, exemplified by models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP). In this paper, we propose the TernaryCLIP, a lightweight computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shu-Hao Zhang , Wei-Cheng Tang , Chen Wu , Peng Hu , Nan Li , Liang-Jie Zhang , Qi Zhang , Shao-Qun Zhang

Recent vision-language models outperform vision-only models on many image classification tasks. However, because of the absence of paired text/image descriptions, it remains difficult to fine-tune these models for fine-grained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kathleen M. Lewis , Emily Mu , Adrian V. Dalca , John Guttag

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semantic alignment. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hai Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Vision Language Foundation Models based on CLIP architecture for remote sensing primarily rely on short text captions, which often result in incomplete semantic representations. Although longer captions convey richer information, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Weizhi Chen , Yupeng Deng , Jin Wei , Jingbo Chen , Jiansheng Chen , Yuman Feng , Zhihao Xi , Diyou Liu , Kai Li , Yu Meng

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingwen Hu , Heng Liu , Zhedong Zheng , Ping Liu