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Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) efficiently learns visual concepts by pre-training with natural language supervision. CLIP and its visual encoder have been explored on various vision and language tasks and achieve strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 An Yan , Jiacheng Li , Wanrong Zhu , Yujie Lu , William Yang Wang , Julian McAuley

Adversarial training is a defense technique that improves adversarial robustness of a deep neural network (DNN) by including adversarial examples in the training data. In this paper, we identify an overlooked problem of adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wonseok Lee , Hanbit Lee , Sang-goo Lee

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval and zero-shot classification but struggles with fine-grained understanding due to its focus on coarse-grained short captions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chunyu Xie , Bin Wang , Fanjing Kong , Jincheng Li , Dawei Liang , Gengshen Zhang , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved impressive zero-shot recognition performance but remain highly susceptible to adversarial perturbations, posing significant risks in safety-critical scenarios. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhiwei Li , Yitian Pang , Weining Wang , Zhenan Sun , Qi Li

While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has advanced open-vocabulary predictions, its performance on semantic segmentation remains suboptimal. This shortfall primarily stems from its spatial-invariant semantic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuheng Shi , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Large-scale pre-trained multi-modal models (e.g., CLIP) demonstrate strong zero-shot transfer capability in many discriminative tasks. Their adaptation to zero-shot image-conditioned text generation tasks has drawn increasing interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wei Li , Linchao Zhu , Longyin Wen , Yi Yang

Training semantic segmenter with synthetic data has been attracting great attention due to its easy accessibility and huge quantities. Most previous methods focused on producing large-scale synthetic image-annotation samples and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Hao Tang , Siyue Yu , Jian Pang , Bingfeng Zhang

The large-scale visual-language pre-trained model, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), has significantly improved image captioning for scenarios without human-annotated image-caption pairs. Recent advanced CLIP-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jiarui Yu , Haoran Li , Yanbin Hao , Bin Zhu , Tong Xu , Xiangnan He

Measuring the perception of visual content is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Many mathematical models have been developed to evaluate the look or quality of an image. Despite the effectiveness of such tools in quantifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jianyi Wang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

Recently, large-scale Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has attracted unprecedented attention for its impressive zero-shot recognition ability and excellent transferability to downstream tasks. However, CLIP is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yangguang Li , Feng Liang , Lichen Zhao , Yufeng Cui , Wanli Ouyang , Jing Shao , Fengwei Yu , Junjie Yan

AI in dermatology is evolving at a rapid pace but the major limitation to training trustworthy classifiers is the scarcity of data with ground-truth concept level labels, which are meta-labels semantically meaningful to humans. Foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Soham Gadgil , Mahtab Bigverdi

The CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) model and its variants are becoming the de facto backbone in many applications. However, training a CLIP model from hundreds of millions of image-text pairs can be prohibitively expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Liangliang Cao , Bowen Zhang , Chen Chen , Yinfei Yang , Xianzhi Du , Wencong Zhang , Zhiyun Lu , Yantao Zheng

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical diagnostics due to its real-time capability and radiation-free nature. However, existing vision-language pre-training models, such as CLIP, are primarily designed for other modalities, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiayun Jin , Haolong Chai , Xueying Huang , Xiaoqing Guo , Zengwei Zheng , Zhan Zhou , Junmei Wang , Xinyu Wang , Jie Liu , Binbin Zhou

Personalization in emotion recognition (ER) is essential for an accurate interpretation of subtle and subject-specific expressive patterns. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Muhammad Osama Zeeshan , Masoumeh Sharafi , Benoît Savary , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

The rapid progress of generative models, such as GANs and diffusion models, has facilitated the creation of highly realistic images, raising growing concerns over their misuse in security-sensitive domains. While existing detectors perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiazhen Yan , Fan Wang , Weiwei Jiang , Ziqiang Li , Zhangjie Fu

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) enables zero-shot inference in downstream tasks such as image-text retrieval and classification. However, recent works extending CLIP suffer from the issue of modality gap, which arises when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Na Min An , Eunki Kim , James Thorne , Hyunjung Shim

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) performs zero-shot image classification by mapping images and textual class representation into a shared embedding space, then retrieving the class closest to the image. This work provides a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Fawaz Sammani , Nikos Deligiannis

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation presents the challenge of labeling each pixel within an image based on a wide range of text descriptions. In this work, we introduce a novel cost-based approach to adapt vision-language foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Seokju Cho , Heeseong Shin , Sunghwan Hong , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Vision-language models such as CLIP are capable of mapping the different modality data into a unified feature space, enabling zero/few-shot inference by measuring the similarity of given images and texts. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Yi Tan , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao , Hanwang Zhang

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