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Many approaches in generalized zero-shot learning rely on cross-modal mapping between the image feature space and the class embedding space. As labeled images are expensive, one direction is to augment the dataset by generating either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Edgar Schönfeld , Sayna Ebrahimi , Samarth Sinha , Trevor Darrell , Zeynep Akata

Contemporary large-scale visual language models (VLMs) exhibit strong representation capacities, making them ubiquitous for enhancing image and text understanding tasks. They are often trained in a contrastive manner on a large and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ugur Sahin , Hang Li , Qadeer Khan , Daniel Cremers , Volker Tresp

We propose a zero-shot approach to image harmonization, aiming to overcome the reliance on large amounts of synthetic composite images in existing methods. These methods, while showing promising results, involve significant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianqi Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Keyan Chen , Zhenwei Shi

Visual language models (VLMs) rapidly progressed with the recent success of large language models. There have been growing efforts on visual instruction tuning to extend the LLM with visual inputs, but lacks an in-depth study of the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ji Lin , Hongxu Yin , Wei Ping , Yao Lu , Pavlo Molchanov , Andrew Tao , Huizi Mao , Jan Kautz , Mohammad Shoeybi , Song Han

This paper proposes a GeneraLIst encoder-Decoder (GLID) pre-training method for better handling various downstream computer vision tasks. While self-supervised pre-training approaches, e.g., Masked Autoencoder, have shown success in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jihao Liu , Jinliang Zheng , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

With generative models becoming increasingly sophisticated and diverse, detecting AI-generated images has become increasingly challenging. While existing AI-genereted Image detectors achieve promising performance on in-distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Haozhen Yan , Yan Hong , Suning Lang , Jiahui Zhan , Yikun Ji , Yujie Gao , Huijia Zhu , Jun Lan , Jianfu Zhang

It has been hypothesized that human-level visual perception requires a generative approach in which internal representations result from inverting a decoder. Yet today's most successful vision models are non-generative, relying on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jack Brady , Bernhard Schölkopf , Thomas Kipf , Simon Buchholz , Wieland Brendel

Lately, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been successfully applied to zero-shot learning (ZSL) and achieved state-of-the-art performance. By synthesizing virtual unseen visual features, GAN-based methods convert the challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jingjing Li , Mengmeng Jing , Ke Lu , Lei Zhu , Yang Yang , Zi Huang

One-shot fine-grained visual recognition often suffers from the problem of having few training examples for new fine-grained classes. To alleviate this problem, off-the-shelf image generation techniques based on Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones, guided by semantic information. To this end, existing works have demonstrated remarkable performance by utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Wenjin Hou , Dingjie Fu , Kun Li , Shiming Chen , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Building generalized models that can solve many computer vision tasks simultaneously is an intriguing direction. Recent works have shown image itself can be used as a natural interface for general-purpose visual perception and demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yue Fan , Yongqin Xian , Xiaohua Zhai , Alexander Kolesnikov , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Bernt Schiele , Federico Tombari

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) addresses the unseen class recognition problem by leveraging semantic information to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Generative models synthesize the unseen visual features and convert ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Maunil R Vyas , Hemanth Venkateswara , Sethuraman Panchanathan

Text-to-image generation has traditionally focused on finding better modeling assumptions for training on a fixed dataset. These assumptions might involve complex architectures, auxiliary losses, or side information such as object part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Aditya Ramesh , Mikhail Pavlov , Gabriel Goh , Scott Gray , Chelsea Voss , Alec Radford , Mark Chen , Ilya Sutskever

Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

Large language models such as BERT and the GPT series started a paradigm shift that calls for building general-purpose models via pre-training on large datasets, followed by fine-tuning on task-specific datasets. There is now a plethora of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jeremy Gwinnup , Kevin Duh

Recent progress in deep generative models has led to tremendous breakthroughs in image generation. However, while existing models can synthesize photorealistic images, they lack an understanding of our underlying 3D world. We present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jun-Yan Zhu , Zhoutong Zhang , Chengkai Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , William T. Freeman

Many recent methods of zero-shot learning (ZSL) attempt to utilize generative model to generate the unseen visual samples from semantic descriptions and random noise. Therefore, the ZSL problem becomes a traditional supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shibing Xu , Zishu Gao , Guojun Xie

Image processing is a fundamental task in computer vision, which aims at enhancing image quality and extracting essential features for subsequent vision applications. Traditionally, task-specific models are developed for individual tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yihao Liu , Xiangyu Chen , Xianzheng Ma , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Pre-training backbone networks on a general annotated dataset (e.g., ImageNet) that comprises numerous manually collected images with category annotations has proven to be indispensable for enhancing the generalization capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Dengyang Jiang , Haoyu Wang , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang , Jingdong Wang , Yanning Zhang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are impressive at visual question answering and image captioning. But they underperform on multi-step visual reasoning -- even compared to LLMs on the same tasks presented in text form -- giving rise to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Simon Park , Abhishek Panigrahi , Yun Cheng , Dingli Yu , Anirudh Goyal , Sanjeev Arora