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Models that bridge vision and language, such as CLIP, are key components of multimodal AI, yet their large-scale, uncurated training data introduce severe social and spurious biases. Existing post-hoc debiasing methods often operate…

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Vision classifiers can exploit spurious correlations, achieving high in-distribution accuracy yet failing under distribution shift. Existing approaches to bias mitigation and analysis often depend on curated datasets, spurious-attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Thomas Vitry , Kieran Edgeworth , Stefan Wermter , Jae Hee Lee

Recently, the contrastive language-image pre-training, e.g., CLIP, has demonstrated promising results on various downstream tasks. The pre-trained model can capture enriched visual concepts for images by learning from a large scale of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huaishao Luo , Junwei Bao , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Tianrui Li

Recent advances in pre-training vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning transferable visual representations. Nonetheless, for downstream inference, CLIP-like models suffer from either 1) degraded accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Feng Wang , Manling Li , Xudong Lin , Hairong Lv , Alexander G. Schwing , Heng Ji

In deep learning, maintaining model robustness against distribution shifts is critical. This work explores a broad range of possibilities to adapt vision-language foundation models at test-time, with a particular emphasis on CLIP and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mario Döbler , Robert A. Marsden , Tobias Raichle , Bin Yang

Pre-trained vision-language models such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated a remarkable generalizability, which has enabled a wide range of applications represented by zero-shot classification. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kazuki Adachi , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Tomoki Hamagami

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently shown great promise in pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks. However, existing approaches utilizing CLIP's text and patch embeddings to generate semantic masks often misidentify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Shengju Qian , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Large pre-trained vision-language models such as CLIP provide compact and general-purpose representations of text and images that are demonstrably effective across multiple downstream zero-shot prediction tasks. However, owing to the nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Sepehr Dehdashtian , Lan Wang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

This work presents a tuning-free semantic segmentation framework based on classifying SAM masks by CLIP, which is universally applicable to various types of supervision. Initially, we utilize CLIP's zero-shot classification ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

Fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models, like CLIP, has yielded success on diverse downstream tasks. However, several pain points persist for this paradigm: (i) directly tuning entire pre-trained models becomes both time-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chenyu You , Yifei Min , Weicheng Dai , Jasjeet S. Sekhon , Lawrence Staib , James S. Duncan

Large-scale Pre-Training Vision-Language Model such as CLIP has demonstrated outstanding performance in zero-shot classification, e.g. achieving 76.3% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet without seeing any example, which leads to potential benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xuefeng Hu , Ke Zhang , Lu Xia , Albert Chen , Jiajia Luo , Yuyin Sun , Ken Wang , Nan Qiao , Xiao Zeng , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ram Nevatia

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoliang Dai , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Hang Zhang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

CLIP models learn transferable multi-modal features via image-text contrastive learning on internet-scale data. They are widely used in zero-shot classification, multi-modal retrieval, text-to-image diffusion, and as image encoders in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Anas Mahmoud , Aldo Zaimi , Arsene Fansi Tchango , Steven L. Waslander

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP to downstream tasks is often necessary to optimize their performance. However, a major obstacle is the limited availability of labeled data. We study the use of pseudolabels, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cristina Menghini , Andrew Delworth , Stephen H. Bach

Household environments are visually diverse. Embodied agents performing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in the wild must be able to handle this diversity, while also following arbitrary language instructions. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Gunnar Sigurdsson , Robinson Piramuthu , Jesse Thomason , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

In deep learning, test-time adaptation has gained attention as a method for model fine-tuning without the need for labeled data. A prime exemplification is the recently proposed test-time prompt tuning for large-scale vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hee Suk Yoon , Eunseop Yoon , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Yingzhen Li , Chang D. Yoo

Few-shot segmentation remains challenging due to the limitations of its labeling information for unseen classes. Most previous approaches rely on extracting high-level feature maps from the frozen visual encoder to compute the pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jin Wang , Bingfeng Zhang , Jian Pang , Honglong Chen , Weifeng Liu

Recognizing the activities causing distraction in real-world driving scenarios is critical for ensuring the safety and reliability of both drivers and pedestrians on the roadways. Conventional computer vision techniques are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Md Zahid Hasan , Jiajing Chen , Jiyang Wang , Mohammed Shaiqur Rahman , Ameya Joshi , Senem Velipasalar , Chinmay Hegde , Anuj Sharma , Soumik Sarkar

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels is a challenging task. Mainstream approaches follow a multi-stage framework and suffer from high training costs. In this paper, we explore the potential of Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuqi Lin , Minghao Chen , Wenxiao Wang , Boxi Wu , Ke Li , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Xiaofei He

Recently, there have been breakthroughs in computer vision ("CV") models that are more generalizable with the advent of models such as CLIP and ALIGN. In this paper, we analyze CLIP and highlight some of the challenges such models pose.…

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