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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

Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has become a key component for learning visual representations across many computer vision tasks and benchmarks. However, contrastive learning in the context of domain adaptation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mamatha Thota , Georgios Leontidis

Generating images according to natural language descriptions is a challenging task. Prior research has mainly focused to enhance the quality of generation by investigating the use of spatial attention and/or textual attention thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Henning Schulze , Dogucan Yaman , Alexander Waibel

Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in multimedia processing, aiming to retrieve semantically relevant cross-modal content. Traditional studies have typically approached this task as a discriminative problem, matching the text and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yongqi Li , Hongru Cai , Wenjie Wang , Leigang Qu , Yinwei Wei , Wenjie Li , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Recent generative data augmentation methods conditioned on both image and text prompts struggle to balance between fidelity and diversity, as it is challenging to preserve essential image details while aligning with varied text prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianchen Zhao , Xuanbai Chen , Zhihua Li , Jun Fang , Dongsheng An , Xiang Xu , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing

Contrastive learning models have achieved great success in unsupervised visual representation learning, which maximize the similarities between feature representations of different views of the same image, while minimize the similarities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Shusheng Xu , Xingxing Zhang , Yi Wu , Furu Wei

We propose a novel, zero-shot image generation technique called "Visual Concept Blending" that provides fine-grained control over which features from multiple reference images are transferred to a source image. If only a single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hiroya Makino , Takahiro Yamaguchi , Hiroyuki Sakai

Contrastive Learning (CL) has been successfully applied to classification and other downstream tasks related to concrete concepts, such as objects contained in the ImageNet dataset. No attempts seem to have been made so far in applying this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniel N. Nissani

Referring expression comprehension aims to localize objects identified by natural language descriptions. This is a challenging task as it requires understanding of both visual and language domains. One nature is that each object can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent advancements in image synthesis have enabled high-quality image generation and manipulation. Most works focus on: 1) conditional manipulation, where an image is modified conditioned on a given attribute, or 2) disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yunlong He , Gwilherm Lesné , Ziqian Liu , Michaël Soumm , Pietro Gori

We propose a supervised contrastive learning framework for video representation learning that leverages temporally global context. We introduce a video to image aggregation strategy that spatially arranges multiple frames from each video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shaif Chowdhury , Mushfika Rahman , Greg Hamerly

A prominent technique for self-supervised representation learning has been to contrast semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. Without access to labels, dissimilar (negative) points are typically taken to be randomly sampled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ching-Yao Chuang , Joshua Robinson , Lin Yen-Chen , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Visual storytelling systems generate multi-sentence stories from image sequences. In this task, capturing contextual information and bridging visual variation bring additional challenges. We propose a simple yet effective framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yingjin Song , Denis Paperno , Albert Gatt

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of synthetic images that are increasingly indistinguishable from authentic content, posing significant challenges for digital media integrity. This problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jaime Álvarez Urueña , David Camacho , Javier Huertas Tato

Recent self-supervised contrastive learning provides an effective approach for unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) by learning invariance from different views (transformed versions) of an input. In this paper, we incorporate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Hao Chen , Yaohui Wang , Benoit Lagadec , Antitza Dantcheva , Francois Bremond

Self-supervised representation learning on image-text data facilitates crucial medical applications, such as image classification, visual grounding, and cross-modal retrieval. One common approach involves contrasting semantically similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Peiqi Wang , Yingcheng Liu , Ching-Yun Ko , William M. Wells , Seth Berkowitz , Steven Horng , Polina Golland

Customization of text-to-image models enables users to insert new concepts or objects and generate them in unseen settings. Existing methods either rely on comparatively expensive test-time optimization or train encoders on single-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nupur Kumari , Xi Yin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Ishan Misra , Samaneh Azadi