English
Related papers

Related papers: Cross-Modal Prototype Alignment and Mixing for Tra…

200 papers

Vision-language models (VLMs) allow to embed texts and images in a shared representation space. However, it has been shown that these models are subject to a modality gap phenomenon meaning there exists a clear separation between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 François Role , Sébastien Meyer , Victor Amblard

In recent years, vision and language pre-training (VLP) models have advanced the state-of-the-art results in a variety of cross-modal downstream tasks. Aligning cross-modal semantics is claimed to be one of the essential capabilities of VLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Mianzhi Pan , Jianbing Zhang , Shujian Huang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

This paper explores training medical vision-language models (VLMs) -- where the visual and language inputs are embedded into a common space -- with a particular focus on scenarios where training data is limited, as is often the case in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rhydian Windsor , Amir Jamaludin , Timor Kadir , Andrew Zisserman

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) has shown remarkable zero-shot transfer capabilities in cross-modal correlation tasks such as visual classification and image retrieval. However, its performance in cross-modal generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jitao Sang

Remote sensing applications increasingly rely on deep learning for scene classification. However, their performance is often constrained by the scarcity of labeled data and the high cost of annotation across diverse geographic and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ivica Dimitrovski , Vlatko Spasev , Ivan Kitanovski

Large-scale vision 2D vision language models, such as CLIP can be aligned with a 3D encoder to learn generalizable (open-vocabulary) 3D vision models. However, current methods require supervised pre-training for such alignment, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Amaya Dharmasiri , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Multi-label few-shot image classification (ML-FSIC) is the task of assigning descriptive labels to previously unseen images, based on a small number of training examples. A key feature of the multi-label setting is that images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Kun Yan , Chenbin Zhang , Jun Hou , Ping Wang , Zied Bouraoui , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Multi-modal contrastive models such as CLIP achieve state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot classification by embedding input images and texts on a joint representational space. Recently, a modality gap has been reported in two-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Abrar Fahim , Alex Murphy , Alona Fyshe

Few-shot learning (FSL) often requires effective adaptation of models using limited labeled data. However, most existing FSL methods rely on entangled representations, requiring the model to implicitly recover the unmixing process to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Yuhang Liu , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have exhibited remarkable performance across various downstream tasks by aligning text and images in a unified embedding space. However, due to the imbalanced distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yunfan Yang , Chaoquan Jiang , Zhiyu Lin , Jinlin Xiao , Jiaming Zhang , Jitao Sang

Efficiently adapting large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP for few-shot learning poses challenges in balancing pre-trained knowledge retention and task-specific adaptation. Existing methods often overlook valuable structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Dazhi Huang

Visual language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) have shown impressive performance in analyzing natural images with language information. However, these models often encounter challenges when applied to specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiaqing Zhang , Mingxiang Cao , Xue Yang , Kai Jiang , Yunsong Li

Contrastive language image pre-training (CLIP) is an essential component of building modern vision-language foundation models. While CLIP demonstrates remarkable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks, the multi-modal feature spaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Dewei Feng , Sekitoshi Kanai , Kazuki Adachi , Daiki Chijiwa

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

As data requirements continue to grow, efficient learning increasingly depends on the curation and distillation of high-value data rather than brute-force scaling of model sizes. In the case of a hyperspectral image (HSI), the challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abhiroop Chatterjee , Susmita Ghosh

Learning from large-scale contrastive language-image pre-training like CLIP has shown remarkable success in a wide range of downstream tasks recently, but it is still under-explored on the challenging few-shot action recognition (FSAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Jun Cen , Changxin Gao , Yingya Zhang , Deli Zhao , Nong Sang

We introduce ProLIP, a simple and architecture-agnostic method for adapting contrastively pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, to few-shot classification. ProLIP fine-tunes the vision encoder's projection matrix with Frobenius…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mohammad Fahes , Tuan-Hung Vu , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Raoul de Charette

Achieving better alignment between vision embeddings and Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing the abilities of Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), particularly for recent models that rely on powerful pretrained vision encoders and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jiachen Jiang , Jinxin Zhou , Bo Peng , Xia Ning , Zhihui Zhu

CLIP models perform remarkably well on zero-shot classification and retrieval tasks. But recent studies have shown that learnt representations in CLIP are not well suited for dense prediction tasks like object detection, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Hadi Pouransari , Fartash Faghri , Oncel Tuzel