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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

Conventional object detectors rely on cross-entropy classification, which can be vulnerable to class imbalance and label noise. We propose CLIP-Joint-Detect, a simple and detector-agnostic framework that integrates CLIP-style contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Behnam Raoufi , Hossein Sharify , Mohamad Mahdee Ramezanee , Khosrow Hajsadeghi , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Large-scale web-crawled datasets are fundamental for the success of pre-training vision-language models, such as CLIP. However, the inherent noise and potential irrelevance of web-crawled AltTexts pose challenges in achieving precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Wentao Wu , Haoping Bai , Aleksei Timofeev , Xianzhi Du , Zhe Gan , Jiulong Shan , Chen-Nee Chuah , Yinfei Yang , Meng Cao

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated considerable success across various vision-language tasks, such as text-to-image retrieval, where the model is required to effectively process natural language input to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Hyunjae Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Handong Zhao , Quan Tran , Franck Dernoncourt , Jaewoo Kang

We present RECLIP (Resource-efficient CLIP), a simple method that minimizes computational resource footprint for CLIP (Contrastive Language Image Pretraining). Inspired by the notion of coarse-to-fine in computer vision, we leverage small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Runze Li , Dahun Kim , Bir Bhanu , Weicheng Kuo

Despite recent advances, vision-language models trained with standard contrastive objectives still struggle with compositional reasoning -- the ability to understand structured relationships between visual and linguistic elements. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jihoon Kwon , Kyle Min , Jy-yong Sohn

The Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has significantly advanced vision-language modeling by aligning image-text pairs from large-scale web data through self-supervised contrastive learning. Yet, its reliance on uncurated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Yao , Haiyang Zhao , Yimin Chen , Jiawei Guo , Kecheng Huang , Ming Zhao

Image-Text pretraining on web-scale image caption datasets has become the default recipe for open vocabulary classification and retrieval models thanks to the success of CLIP and its variants. Several works have also used CLIP features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Yongqin Xian , Xiaohua Zhai , Lukas Hoyer , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Multimodal co-embedding models, especially CLIP, have advanced the state of the art in zero-shot classification and multimedia information retrieval in recent years by aligning images and text in a shared representation space. However, such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Allie Tran , Luca Rossetto

Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization…

We propose DiffCLIP, a novel vision-language model that extends the differential attention mechanism to CLIP architectures. Differential attention was originally developed for large language models to amplify relevant context while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Bernard Ghanem

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a promising language-supervised visual pre-training framework. This paper aims to distill small CLIP models supervised by a large teacher CLIP model. We propose several distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Junyu Bi , Xinqiang Yu , Han Yang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

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

Continual learning (CL) aims to equip models with the ability to learn from a stream of tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. With the progress of vision-language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Lingfeng He , De Cheng , Di Xu , Huaijie Wang , Nannan Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has achieved remarkable success, leading to rapid advancements in multimodal studies. However, CLIP faces a notable challenge in terms of inefficient data utilization. It relies on a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yu Zhang , Qi Zhang , Zixuan Gong , Yiwei Shi , Yepeng Liu , Duoqian Miao , Yang Liu , Ke Liu , Kun Yi , Wei Fan , Liang Hu , Changwei Wang

Contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, have garnered considerable attention for various downstream tasks, mainly due to the remarkable ability of the learned features for generalization. However, the features they learned often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Vision-language pretraining on large datasets of images-text pairs is one of the main building blocks of current Vision-Language Models. While with additional training, these models excel in various downstream tasks, including visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Saurabh Srivastava , Jana Košecká

The application of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) research powerful cross-modal semantic understanding capabilities. Existing methods attempt to optimize input text prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhongxing Xu , Feilong Tang , Zhe Chen , Yingxue Su , Zhiyi Zhao , Ge Zhang , Jionglong Su , Zongyuan Ge

Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) has received widespread attention, since its learned representations can be transferred well to various downstream tasks. During the training process of the CLIP model, the InfoNCE objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Delong Chen , Zhao Wu , Fan Liu , Zaiquan Yang , Huaxi Huang , Ying Tan , Erjin Zhou

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown great impact on diverse downstream tasks for zero-shot or label-free predictions. However, when it comes to low-level vision such as image restoration their performance deteriorates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön