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The landscape of publicly available vision foundation models (VFMs), such as CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM), is expanding rapidly. VFMs are endowed with distinct capabilities stemming from their pre-training objectives. For instance,…

CLIP achieves strong zero-shot image-text retrieval by aligning global vision and text representations, yet it falls behind on fine-grained tasks even when fine-tuned on long, detailed captions. In this work, we propose $\beta$-CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Fatimah Zohra , Chen Zhao , Hani Itani , Bernard Ghanem

Despite the success of large-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) especially CLIP in various open-vocabulary tasks, their application to semantic segmentation remains challenging, producing noisy segmentation maps with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

The limited data availability and the low signal-to-noise ratio of fMRI signals lead to the challenging task of fMRI-to-image retrieval. State-of-the-art MindEye remarkably improves fMRI-to-image retrieval performance by leveraging a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zixuan Gong , Qi Zhang , Guangyin Bao , Lei Zhu , Ke Liu , Liang Hu , Duoqian Miao , Yu Zhang

Large-scale vision-language pre-training has achieved promising results on downstream tasks. Existing methods highly rely on the assumption that the image-text pairs crawled from the Internet are in perfect one-to-one correspondence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yuting Gao , Jinfeng Liu , Zihan Xu , Jun Zhang , Ke Li , Rongrong Ji , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activity (e.g., fMRI) bridges neuroscience and computer vision by decoding neural representations. However, existing methods often overlook critical brain structure-function relationships,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sijin Yu , Zijiao Chen , Wenxuan Wu , Shengxian Chen , Zhongliang Liu , Jingxin Nie , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Xin Zhang

Deciphering the human visual experience through brain activities captured by fMRI represents a compelling and cutting-edge challenge in the field of neuroscience research. Compared to merely predicting the viewed image itself, decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ziqi Ren , Jie Li , Xuetong Xue , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Reconstructing visual stimuli from brain recordings has been a meaningful and challenging task. Especially, the achievement of precise and controllable image reconstruction bears great significance in propelling the progress and utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yizhuo Lu , Changde Du , Qiongyi zhou , Dianpeng Wang , Huiguang He

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encode images into visual tokens, aligning visual and textual signals within a shared latent space to facilitate crossmodal representation learning. The CLIP model is a widely adopted foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Kyle R. Chickering , Bangzheng Li , Muhao Chen

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP excel in general multimodal comprehension but often struggle to capture nuanced, context-dependent visual cues. This makes it difficult to distinguish between similar-looking concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yuchen Huang , Zhiyuan Fan , Zhitao He , Sandeep Polisetty , Wenyan Li , Yi R. Fung

We introduce BrainSAIL, a method for linking neural selectivity with spatially distributed semantic visual concepts in natural scenes. BrainSAIL leverages recent advances in large-scale artificial neural networks, using them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Andrew F. Luo , Jacob Yeung , Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Margaret M. Henderson , Leila Wehbe , Michael J. Tarr

Image Captioning for state-of-the-art VLMs has significantly improved over time; however, this comes at the cost of increased computational complexity, making them less accessible for resource-constrained applications such as mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sania Waheed , Na Min An

Current state-of-the-art segmentation models encode entire images before focusing on specific objects. As a result, they waste computational resources - particularly when small objects are to be segmented in high-resolution scenes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Manuel Traub , Martin V. Butz

Recent advances in brain-inspired artificial intelligence have sought to align neural signals with visual semantics using multimodal models such as CLIP. However, existing methods often treat CLIP as a static feature extractor, overlooking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiyuan Wang , Li Zhang , Haipeng Lin , Qile Liu , Gan Huang , Ziyu Li , Zhen Liang , Xia Wu

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance for many vision-language tasks. However, most existing pre-trained models only excel in either understanding-based tasks or generation-based tasks. Furthermore, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Junnan Li , Dongxu Li , Caiming Xiong , Steven Hoi

Medical image captioning is a challenging task that requires generating clinically accurate and semantically meaningful descriptions of radiology images. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) such as BLIP, BLIP2, Gemini and ViT-GPT2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Manshi Limbu , Diwita Banerjee

Representing images or videos as object-level feature vectors, rather than pixel-level feature maps, facilitates advanced visual tasks. Object-Centric Learning (OCL) primarily achieves this by reconstructing the input under the guidance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rongzhen Zhao , Vivienne Wang , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

The clinical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging requires models that are both diagnostically accurate and interpretable to clinicians. While current multimodal biomedical foundation models prioritize performance,…

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) aims to evaluate the perceptual quality of images based on human subjective perception. Existing methods generally combine multiscale features to achieve high performance, but most rely on straightforward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chenyue Song , Chen Hui , Wei Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Shaohui Liu , Hong Huang , Feng Jiang