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Subject-driven text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in preserving single identities, yet their ability to compose multiple interacting subjects remains largely unexplored and highly challenging. Existing…

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Recent works in image captioning have shown very promising raw performance. However, we realize that most of these encoder-decoder style networks with attention do not scale naturally to large vocabulary size, making them difficult to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jia Huei Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Joon Huang Chuah

Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled to give accurate learned estimates of the semantic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mert İnan , Piyush Sharma , Baber Khalid , Radu Soricut , Matthew Stone , Malihe Alikhani

Modern supervised semantic segmentation methods are usually finetuned based on the supervised or self-supervised models pre-trained on ImageNet. Recent work shows that transferring the knowledge from CLIP to semantic segmentation via prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

The application of zero-shot learning in computer vision has been revolutionized by the use of image-text matching models. The most notable example, CLIP, has been widely used for both zero-shot classification and guiding generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Roni Paiss , Hila Chefer , Lior Wolf

Zero-shot action recognition is challenging due to the semantic gap between seen and unseen classes. We present a novel framework that enhances CLIP with disentangled embeddings and semantic-guided interaction. A Motion Separation Module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yiming Wang , Frederick W. B. Li , Jingyun Wang

Pretrained visual-language models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot abilities in image captioning, when accompanied by hand-crafted prompts. Meanwhile, hand-crafted prompts utilize human prior knowledge to guide the model. However, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

Autoregressive (AR) models have shown great promise in image generation, yet they face a fundamental inefficiency stemming from their core component: a vast, unstructured vocabulary of visual tokens. This conventional approach treats tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lixuan He , Shikang Zheng , Linfeng Zhang

The ability to efficiently search for images is essential for improving the user experiences across various products. Incorporating user feedback, via multi-modal inputs, to navigate visual search can help tailor retrieved results to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Surgan Jandial , Pinkesh Badjatiya , Pranit Chawla , Ayush Chopra , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Generating consistent and high-quality images from given texts is essential for visual-language understanding. Although impressive results have been achieved in generating high-quality images, text-image consistency is still a major concern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zhaorui Tan , Xi Yang , Zihan Ye , Qiufeng Wang , Yuyao Yan , Anh Nguyen , Kaizhu Huang

Evaluating whether text-to-image models follow explicit spatial instructions is difficult to automate. Object detectors may miss targets or return multiple plausible detections, and simple geometric tests can become ambiguous in borderline…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Amine Rostane

This paper presents a simple and effective visual prompting method for adapting pre-trained models to downstream recognition tasks. Our method includes two key designs. First, rather than directly adding together the prompt and the image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Junyang Wu , Xianhang Li , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Prior work has offered evidence for functional localization in the brain; different anatomical regions preferentially activate for certain types of visual input. For example, the fusiform face area preferentially activates for visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Cory Efird , Alex Murphy , Joel Zylberberg , Alona Fyshe

Example-guided image synthesis has been recently attempted to synthesize an image from a semantic label map and an exemplary image. In the task, the additional exemplary image serves to provide style guidance that controls the appearance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Haitian Zheng , Haofu Liao , Lele Chen , Wei Xiong , Tianlang Chen , Jiebo Luo

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven foundation model for natural image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance. However, SAM does not work when directly applied to medical image segmentation, since SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Bin Duan , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Vision-language pretraining on large datasets of images-text pairs is one of the main building blocks of current Vision-Language Models. While with additional training, these models excel in various downstream tasks, including visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Saurabh Srivastava , Jana Košecká

Vision-language foundation models such as CLIP have achieved tremendous results in global vision-language alignment, but still show some limitations in creating representations for specific image regions. % To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Walid Bousselham , Sofian Chaybouti , Christian Rupprecht , Vittorio Ferrari , Hilde Kuehne

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models show outstanding performance in generating high-quality images conditioned on textual prompts. However, they fail to semantically align the generated images with the prompts due to their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ruichen Wang , Zekang Chen , Chen Chen , Jian Ma , Haonan Lu , Xiaodong Lin

Editing images using natural language instructions has become a natural and expressive way to modify visual content; yet, evaluating the performance of such models remains challenging. Existing evaluation approaches often rely on image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yusu Qian , Jiasen Lu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Xinze Wang , Chen Chen , Yinfei Yang , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan

Recent conditional image generation methods produce images of remarkable diversity, fidelity and realism. However, the majority of these methods allow conditioning only on labels or text prompts, which limits their level of control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dina Bashkirova , Jose Lezama , Kihyuk Sohn , Kate Saenko , Irfan Essa