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Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) stands out as a prominent method for image representation learning. Various neural architectures, spanning Transformer-based models like Vision Transformers (ViTs) to Convolutional Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Hamed Damirchi , Ignacio M. Jara , Felipe Bravo-Marquez , Anton van den Hengel

Pre-trained large models for multimodal contrastive learning, such as CLIP, have been widely recognized in the industry as highly susceptible to data-poisoned backdoor attacks. This poses significant risks to downstream model training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yuan Xun , Siyuan Liang , Xiaojun Jia , Xinwei Liu , Xiaochun Cao

Inspired by the remarkable zero-shot generalization capacity of vision-language pre-trained model, we seek to leverage the supervision from CLIP model to alleviate the burden of data labeling. However, such supervision inevitably contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Junchu Huang , Weijie Chen , Shicai Yang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Yueting Zhuang

Language-image pre-training is an effective technique for learning powerful representations in general domains. However, when directly turning to person representation learning, these general pre-training methods suffer from unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jialong Zuo , Jiahao Hong , Feng Zhang , Changqian Yu , Hanyu Zhou , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Jingdong Wang

We present VideoCLIP, a contrastive approach to pre-train a unified model for zero-shot video and text understanding, without using any labels on downstream tasks. VideoCLIP trains a transformer for video and text by contrasting temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Hu Xu , Gargi Ghosh , Po-Yao Huang , Dmytro Okhonko , Armen Aghajanyan , Florian Metze , Luke Zettlemoyer , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) stands out as a prominent method for image representation learning. Various architectures, from vision transformers (ViTs) to convolutional networks (ResNets) have been trained with CLIP to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damien Teney , Hamed Damirchi , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Anton van den Hengel

Image captioning models are usually trained according to human annotated ground-truth captions, which could generate accurate but generic captions. In this paper, we focus on generating distinctive captions that can distinguish the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Youyuan Zhang , Jiuniu Wang , Hao Wu , Wenjia Xu

Recent adaptations can boost the low-shot capability of Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) by effectively facilitating knowledge transfer. However, these adaptation methods are usually operated on the global view of an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jinda Lu , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao , Haifeng Liu , Xiang Wang , Meng Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) is a popular method for learning multimodal latent spaces with well-organized semantics. Despite its wide range of applications, CLIP's latent space is known to fail at handling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Raphi Kang , Yue Song , Georgia Gkioxari , Pietro Perona

Traditional computer vision models are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories. Recently, natural language has been shown to be a broader and richer source of supervision that provides finer descriptions to visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ruizhe Cheng , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Contrastive pretraining of image-text foundation models, such as CLIP, demonstrated excellent zero-shot performance and improved robustness on a wide range of downstream tasks. However, these models utilize large transformer-based encoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Hadi Pouransari , Fartash Faghri , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Oncel Tuzel

Contrastive Language--Image Pre-training (CLIP) has manifested remarkable improvements in zero-shot classification and cross-modal vision-language tasks. Yet, from a geometrical point of view, the CLIP embedding space has been found to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sedigheh Eslami , Gerard de Melo

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a cornerstone in vision-language representation learning, powering diverse downstream tasks and serving as the default vision backbone in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Chuan Qin , Constantin Venhoff , Sonia Joseph , Fanyi Xiao , Stefan Scherer

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

As a general-purpose vision-language pretraining model, CLIP demonstrates strong generalization ability in image-text alignment tasks and has been widely adopted in downstream applications such as image classification and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kuanrong Liu , Siyuan Liang , Cheng Qian , Ming Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

Foundation models have recently gained tremendous popularity in medical image analysis. State-of-the-art methods leverage either paired image-text data via vision-language pre-training or unpaired image data via self-supervised pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lei Zhu , Jun Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

We propose a simple strategy for masking image patches during visual-language contrastive learning that improves the quality of the learned representations and the training speed. During each iteration of training, we randomly mask clusters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zihao Wei , Zixuan Pan , Andrew Owens

Long-form video understanding requires designing approaches that are able to temporally localize activities or language. End-to-end training for such tasks is limited by the compute device memory constraints and lack of temporal annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mengmeng Xu , Erhan Gundogdu , Maksim Lapin , Bernard Ghanem , Michael Donoser , Loris Bazzani

Contrastive image-text models such as CLIP form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art systems. While they excel at recognizing common generic concepts, they still struggle on fine-grained entities which are rare, or even absent from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Multimodal fusion breaks through the boundaries between diverse modalities and has already achieved notable performances. However, in many specialized fields, it is struggling to obtain sufficient alignment data for training, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zijia Song , Zelin Zang , Yelin Wang , Guozheng Yang , Kaicheng yu , Wanyu Chen , Miaoyu Wang , Stan Z. Li