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In this paper, we propose an embarrassingly simple yet highly effective zero-shot semantic segmentation (ZS3) method, based on the pre-trained vision-language model CLIP. First, our study provides a couple of key discoveries: (i) the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Letian Wu , Wenyao Zhang , Tengping Jiang , Wankou Yang , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

Large vision-language models (VLMs) are shown to learn rich joint image-text representations enabling high performances in relevant downstream tasks. However, they fail to showcase their quantitative understanding of objects, and they lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Harshvardhan Mestha , Tejas Agrawal , Karan Bania , Shreyas V , Yash Bhisikar

Recently, many studies have been conducted to enhance the zero-shot generalization ability of vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) by addressing the semantic misalignment between image and text embeddings in downstream tasks. Although many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Xiaojie Yin , Qilong Wang , Bing Cao , Qinghua Hu

Deep Learning (DL) is undergoing a paradigm shift with the emergence of foundation models. In this work, we focus on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), a Vision-Language foundation model that achieves high accuracy across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Angelos Zavras , Dimitrios Michail , Begüm Demir , Ioannis Papoutsis

Most existing semantic communication (SemCom) systems use deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) to encode task-specific semantics in a goal-oriented manner. However, their reliance on predefined tasks and datasets significantly limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Jiangjing Hu , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Deniz Gündüz

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models excel in zero-shot classification, yet face challenges in complex multi-object scenarios. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of CLIP's limitations in these contexts using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Reza Abbasi , Ali Nazari , Aminreza Sefid , Mohammadali Banayeeanzade , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Transfer learning enables the sharing of common knowledge among models for a variety of downstream tasks, but traditional methods suffer in limited training data settings and produce narrow models incapable of effectively generalizing under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kevin Vogt-Lowell , Noah Lee , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Marc Vaillant

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. However, there still exists a considerable performance gap between these models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel

This paper proposes Comprehensive Pathology Language Image Pre-training (CPLIP), a new unsupervised technique designed to enhance the alignment of images and text in histopathology for tasks such as classification and segmentation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sajid Javed , Arif Mahmood , Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi , Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Naoufel Werghi , Mohammed Bennamoun

Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

Large vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, learn rich joint image-text representations, facilitating advances in numerous downstream tasks, including zero-shot classification and text-to-image generation. Nevertheless, existing VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Roni Paiss , Ariel Ephrat , Omer Tov , Shiran Zada , Inbar Mosseri , Michal Irani , Tali Dekel

Large-scale pretrained vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot image classification capabilities across diverse domains. To enhance CLIP's performance while preserving the zero-shot paradigm, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xuefeng Hu , Ke Zhang , Min Sun , Albert Chen , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ram Nevatia

Understanding the mechanisms underlying human attention is a fundamental challenge for both vision science and artificial intelligence. While numerous computational models of free-viewing have been proposed, less is known about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Dario Zanca , Andrea Zugarini , Simon Dietz , Thomas R. Altstidl , Mark A. Turban Ndjeuha , Leo Schwinn , Bjoern Eskofier

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer interpretable alternatives to black-box predictors by introducing human-relatable concepts before the final output. However, existing CBMs struggle to verify whether predicted concepts correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yingying Fang , Haijie Xu , Shuang Wu , Mariathasan Anish , Guang Yang

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) is an efficient method for learning computer vision tasks from natural language supervision that has powered a recent breakthrough in deep learning due to its zero-shot transfer capabilities. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Arnau Martí Sarri , Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez

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

Large-scale Vision-Language Models, such as CLIP, learn powerful image-text representations that have found numerous applications, from zero-shot classification to text-to-image generation. Despite that, their capabilities for solving novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Aleksandar Shtedritski , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Traditional 3D scene understanding approaches rely on labeled 3D datasets to train a model for a single task with supervision. We propose OpenScene, an alternative approach where a model predicts dense features for 3D scene points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Songyou Peng , Kyle Genova , Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Marc Pollefeys , Thomas Funkhouser

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) provides a foundation model by integrating natural language into visual concepts, enabling zero-shot recognition on downstream tasks. It is usually expected that satisfactory overall accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jie-Jing Shao , Jiang-Xin Shi , Xiao-Wen Yang , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

CLIP embeddings have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal applications. However, these high-dimensional, dense vector representations are not easily interpretable, limiting our understanding of the rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Usha Bhalla , Alex Oesterling , Suraj Srinivas , Flavio P. Calmon , Himabindu Lakkaraju