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Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive zero- and few-shot performance on real-world visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks, alluding to their capabilities as visual reasoning engines. However, the benchmarks being used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aishik Nagar , Shantanu Jaiswal , Cheston Tan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by aligning images with intermediate class semantics, like human-annotated concepts or class definitions. An emerging alternative leverages Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Shiming Chen , Yaochu Jin , Kaizhu Huang , Xiaobo Jin

As a cornerstone of patient care, clinical decision-making significantly influences patient outcomes and can be enhanced by large language models (LLMs). Although LLMs have demonstrated remarkable performance, their application to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ji Young Byun , Young-Jin Park , Navid Azizan , Rama Chellappa

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Vocabulary-free fine-grained image recognition aims to distinguish visually similar categories within a meta-class without a fixed, human-defined label set. Existing solutions for this problem are limited by either the usage of a large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dmitry Demidov , Zaigham Zaheer , Zongyan Han , Omkar Thawakar , Rao Anwer

Any entity in the visual world can be hierarchically grouped based on shared characteristics and mapped to fine-grained sub-categories. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on coarse-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hulingxiao He , Zijun Geng , Yuxin Peng

The task of few-shot image classification and segmentation (FS-CS) requires the classification and segmentation of target objects in a query image, given only a few examples of the target classes. We introduce a method that utilises large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Tian Meng , Yang Tao , Wuliang Yin

Effective cross-modal retrieval is essential for applications like information retrieval and recommendation systems, particularly in specialized domains such as manufacturing, where product information often consists of visual samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Francesco Giuliari , Asif Khan Pattan , Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Fabio Poiesi

Video recognition models are typically trained on fixed taxonomies which are often too coarse, collapsing distinctions in object, manner or outcome under a single label. As tasks and definitions evolve, such models cannot accommodate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kaiting Liu , Hazel Doughty

Despite the renewed interest in zero-shot visual classification due to the rise of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), the problem of evaluating free-form responses of auto-regressive models remains a persistent challenge. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Logan Lawrence , Oindrila Saha , Megan Wei , Chen Sun , Subhransu Maji , Grant Van Horn

The growing demand for surveillance in public spaces presents significant challenges due to the shortage of human resources. Current AI-based video surveillance systems heavily rely on core computer vision models that require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Joao Pereira , Vasco Lopes , David Semedo , Joao Neves

The fusion of language and vision in large vision-language models (LVLMs) has revolutionized deep learning-based object detection by enhancing adaptability, contextual reasoning, and generalization beyond traditional architectures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ranjan Sapkota , Manoj Karkee

Zero-shot visual question answering (ZS-VQA), an emerged critical research area, intends to answer visual questions without providing training samples. Existing research in ZS-VQA has proposed to leverage knowledge graphs or large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Qian Tao , Xiaoyang Fan , Yong Xu , Xingquan Zhu , Yufei Tang

Recent advances in few-shot adaptation for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have greatly expanded their ability to generalize across tasks using only a few labeled examples. However, existing approaches primarily build upon the strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Maxime Zanella , Clément Fuchs , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

By combining natural language understanding, generation capabilities, and breadth of knowledge of large language models with image perception, recent large vision language models (LVLMs) have shown unprecedented visual reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Siming Yan , Min Bai , Weifeng Chen , Xiong Zhou , Qixing Huang , Li Erran Li

Vision-Language Models for remote sensing have shown promising uses thanks to their extensive pretraining. However, their conventional usage in zero-shot scene classification methods still involves dividing large images into patches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Karim El Khoury , Maxime Zanella , Benoît Gérin , Tiffanie Godelaine , Benoît Macq , Saïd Mahmoudi , Christophe De Vleeschouwer , Ismail Ben Ayed

Identifying subordinate-level categories from images is a longstanding task in computer vision and is referred to as fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR). It has tremendous significance in real-world applications since an average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Wenjing Li , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Inspired by the success of vision-language methods (VLMs) in zero-shot classification, recent works attempt to extend this line of work into object detection by leveraging the localization ability of pre-trained VLMs and generating pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yanxin Long , Jianhua Han , Runhui Huang , Xu Hang , Yi Zhu , Chunjing Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Fine-grained attribute prediction is essential for fashion retail applications including catalog enrichment, visual search, and recommendation systems. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer zero-shot prediction without task-specific training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Shubham Shukla , Kunal Sonalkar

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (VWSD) is a novel challenging task that lies between linguistic sense disambiguation and fine-grained multimodal retrieval. The recent advancements in the development of visiolinguistic (VL) transformers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Anastasia Kritharoula , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou