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Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable zero-shot classification by aligning images and text in a shared space, a promising approach for data-scarce conditions. However, the influence of prompt design on recognizing visually similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 MingZe Tang , Jubal Chandy Jacob

Contrastive pretrained large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have revolutionized visual representation learning by providing good performance on downstream datasets. VLMs are 0-shot adapted to a downstream dataset by designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mayug Maniparambil , Chris Vorster , Derek Molloy , Noel Murphy , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor

Transduction is a powerful paradigm that leverages the structure of unlabeled data to boost predictive accuracy. We present TransCLIP, a novel and computationally efficient transductive approach designed for Vision-Language Models (VLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Maxime Zanella , Benoît Gérin , Ismail Ben Ayed

Classification of pathological images is the basis for automatic cancer diagnosis. Despite that deep learning methods have achieved remarkable performance, they heavily rely on labeled data, demanding extensive human annotation efforts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Lanfeng Zhong , Zongyao Huang , Yang Liu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has shown impressive zero-shot performance on image classification. However, state-of-the-art methods often rely on fine-tuning techniques like prompt learning and adapter-based tuning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ans Munir , Faisal Z. Qureshi , Muhammad Haris Khan , Mohsen Ali

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

In unsupervised adaptation for vision-language models such as CLIP, pseudo-labels derived from zero-shot predictions often exhibit significant noise, particularly under domain shifts or in visually complex scenarios. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Eman Ali , Chetan Arora , Muhammad Haris Khan

Thanks to the large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP, we can craft a zero-shot classifier by "prompt", e.g., the confidence score of an image being "[CLASS]" can be obtained by using the VLM provided similarity measure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Beier Zhu , Yulei Niu , Yucheng Han , Yue Wu , Hanwang Zhang

Vision-language foundation models have emerged as powerful general-purpose representation learners with strong potential for multimodal understanding, but their deterministic embeddings often fail to provide the reliability required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ahmad Elallaf , Yu Zhang , Yuktha Priya Masupalli , Jeong Yang , Young Lee , Zechun Cao , Gongbo Liang

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

Large vision-language representation learning models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive performance for zero-shot transfer to downstream tasks while largely benefiting from inter-modal (image-text) alignment via contrastive objectives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Muhammad Waleed Gondal , Jochen Gast , Inigo Alonso Ruiz , Richard Droste , Tommaso Macri , Suren Kumar , Luitpold Staudigl

The potential for zero-shot generalization in vision-language (V-L) models such as CLIP has spurred their widespread adoption in addressing numerous downstream tasks. Previous methods have employed test-time prompt tuning to adapt the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Anant Khandelwal

Large annotated datasets are essential for training robust Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) models for breast cancer detection or risk prediction. However, acquiring such datasets with fine-detailed annotation is both costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , Hyeonjun Lee , Thijs Kooi , Ali Diba

Remote sensing image-text retrieval plays a crucial role in remote sensing interpretation, yet remains challenging under both closed-domain and open-domain scenarios due to semantic noise and domain shifts. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jiancheng Pan , Muyuan Ma , Qing Ma , Cong Bai , Shengyong Chen

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have been cherished for their ability to perform zero-shot visual recognition on open-vocabulary concepts. This is achieved by selecting the object category whose textual representation bears the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shaunak Halbe , Junjiao Tian , K J Joseph , James Seale Smith , Katherine Stevo , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Zsolt Kira

The success of CLIP-like vision-language models (VLMs) on natural images has inspired medical counterparts, yet existing approaches largely fall into two extremes: specialist models trained on single-domain data, which capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 M. Arda Aydın , Melih B. Yilmaz , Aykut Koç , Tolga Çukur

Capitalizing on vast amount of image-text data, large-scale vision-language pre-training has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities and has been utilized in several applications. However, models trained on general everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Umair Nawaz , Muhammad Awais , Hanan Gani , Muzammal Naseer , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer

The lack of large and diverse training data on Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) in breast cancer detection has been one of the concerns that impedes the adoption of the system. Recently, pre-training with large-scale image text datasets via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Shantanu Ghosh , Clare B. Poynton , Shyam Visweswaran , Kayhan Batmanghelich

Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. A crucial challenge for early diagnosis is differentiating uncertain cases with similar visual characteristics and closely annotation scores. In clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Sadaf Khademi , Mehran Shabanpour , Reza Taleei , Anastasia Oikonomou , Arash Mohammadi

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in histopathology, such as CONCH and QuiltNet, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot classification capabilities across various tasks. However, their general-purpose design may lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jingna Qiu , Nishanth Jain , Jonas Ammeling , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger