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Self-supervised representation learning can mitigate the limitations in recognition tasks with few manually labeled data but abundant unlabeled data---a common scenario in sound event research. In this work, we explore unsupervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Eduardo Fonseca , Diego Ortego , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor , Xavier Serra

Vision-language models have become increasingly powerful for tasks that require an understanding of both visual and linguistic elements, bridging the gap between these modalities. In the context of multimodal clinical AI, there is a growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Masoud Monajatipoor , Zi-Yi Dou , Aichi Chien , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Multimodal representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods excel at building global-level alignment between vision and language while lacking effective fine-grained image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zijia Zhao , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Shuai Shao , Zehuan Yuan , Jing Liu

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework has become a widely used approach for multimodal representation learning, particularly in image-text retrieval and clustering. However, its efficacy is constrained by three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Ziyong Feng , Xingjun Wang , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Yingda Chen , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

Vision-language retrieval is an important multi-modal learning topic, where the goal is to retrieve the most relevant visual candidate for a given text query. Recently, pre-trained models, e.g., CLIP, show great potential on retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haojun Jiang , Jianke Zhang , Rui Huang , Chunjiang Ge , Zanlin Ni , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Understanding dark scenes based on multi-modal image data is challenging, as both the visible and auxiliary modalities provide limited semantic information for the task. Previous methods focus on fusing the two modalities but neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaoyu Dong , Naoto Yokoya

Multimodal pathological images are usually in clinical diagnosis, but computer vision-based multimodal image-assisted diagnosis faces challenges with modality fusion, especially in the absence of expert-annotated data. To achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinghua Lin , Guang-Hai Liu , Zuoyong Li , Yang Li , Yuting Jiang , Xiang Wu

As the real propagation environment becomes in creasingly complex and dynamic, millimeter wave beam prediction faces huge challenges. However, the powerful cross modal representation capability of vision-language model (VLM) provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Ji Wang , Bin Tang , Jian Xiao , Qimei Cui , Xingwang Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

Representing the semantics of words is a long-standing problem for the natural language processing community. Most methods compute word semantics given their textual context in large corpora. More recently, researchers attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Éloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

Vision-language pre-training has recently gained popularity as it allows learning rich feature representations using large-scale data sources. This paradigm has quickly made its way into the medical image analysis community. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Although an object may appear in numerous contexts, we often describe it in a limited number of ways. Language allows us to abstract away visual variation to represent and communicate concepts. Building on this intuition, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mohamed El Banani , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson

Various state-of-the-art self-supervised visual representation learning approaches take advantage of data from multiple sensors by aligning the feature representations across views and/or modalities. In this work, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Thomas M. Hehn , Julian F. P. Kooij , Dariu M. Gavrila

Vision-language models can encode societal biases and stereotypes, but there are challenges to measuring and mitigating these multimodal harms due to lacking measurement robustness and feature degradation. To address these challenges, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hugo Berg , Siobhan Mackenzie Hall , Yash Bhalgat , Wonsuk Yang , Hannah Rose Kirk , Aleksandar Shtedritski , Max Bain

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on numerous benchmark tasks. However, the use of internet-scale, often proprietary, pretraining corpora raises a critical concern for both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jaden Park , Mu Cai , Feng Yao , Jingbo Shang , Soochahn Lee , Yong Jae Lee

Medical contrastive vision-language pre-training (VLP) has demonstrated significant potential in improving performance on downstream tasks. Traditional approaches typically employ contrastive learning, treating paired image-report samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Toan Duc Nguyen , Junghyun Bum , Duc-Tai Le , Hyunseung Choo

The dominant probing approaches rely on the zero-shot performance of image-text matching tasks to gain a finer-grained understanding of the representations learned by recent multimodal image-language transformer models. The evaluation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ivana Beňová , Jana Košecká , Michal Gregor , Martin Tamajka , Marcel Veselý , Marián Šimko

Self-supervised pre-training of deep learning models with contrastive learning is a widely used technique in image analysis. Current findings indicate a strong potential for contrastive pre-training on medical images. However, further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Daniel Wolf , Tristan Payer , Catharina Silvia Lisson , Christoph Gerhard Lisson , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz , Timo Ropinski

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) on large-scale image-text pairs has recently witnessed rapid progress for learning cross-modal representations. Existing pre-training methods either directly concatenate image representation and text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Haiyang Xu , Fuli Luo , Wei Wang , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang

Contrastive learning has proven effective for pre-training image models on unlabeled data with promising results for tasks such as medical image classification. Using paired text (like radiological reports) during pre-training improves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Philip Müller , Georgios Kaissis , Congyu Zou , Daniel Rueckert