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Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has gained popularity for its remarkable zero-shot capacity. Recent research has focused on developing efficient fine-tuning methods, such as prompt learning and adapter, to enhance CLIP's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhengbo Wang , Jian Liang , Lijun Sheng , Ran He , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

An innovative few-shot anomaly detection approach is presented, leveraging the pre-trained CLIP model for medical data, and adapting it for both image-level anomaly classification (AC) and pixel-level anomaly segmentation (AS). A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mahshid Shiri , Cigdem Beyan , Vittorio Murino

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), like CLIP, exhibit strong generalization ability to downstream tasks but struggle in few-shot scenarios. Existing prompting techniques primarily focus on global text and image representations, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xin Liu , Jiamin Wu , and Wenfei Yang , Xu Zhou , Tianzhu Zhang

Vision-language models such as CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in aligning images and text, but they often struggle with lengthy and detailed text descriptions due to pre-training on short and concise captions. We present FAST-GOAL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hyungyu Choi , Young Kyun Jang , Chanho Eom

Numerous methods have been proposed to adapt a pre-trained foundational CLIP model for few-shot classification. As CLIP is trained on a large corpus, it generalises well through adaptation to few-shot classification. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Alexey Kravets , Vinay Namboodiri

The zero-shot performance of existing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP is limited by the availability of large-scale, aligned image and text datasets in specific domains. In this work, we leverage two complementary sources of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Oindrila Saha , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training(CLIP) demonstrates impressive zero-shot capability. The key to improve the adaptation of CLIP to downstream task with few exemplars lies in how to effectively model and transfer the useful knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Xu Tang , Guoliang Kang , Efstratios Gavves

The popularity of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has propelled its application to diverse downstream vision tasks. To improve its capacity on downstream tasks, few-shot learning has become a widely-adopted technique.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xiangyang Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Bowei He , Aojun Zhou , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Peng Gao

Few-shot learning (FSL), which aims to recognise new classes by adapting the learned knowledge with extremely limited few-shot (support) examples, remains an important open problem in computer vision. Most of the existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Image captioning aims at generating descriptive and meaningful textual descriptions of images, enabling a broad range of vision-language applications. Prior works have demonstrated that harnessing the power of Contrastive Image Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Longtian Qiu , Shan Ning , Xuming He

As a pioneering vision-language model, CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) has achieved significant success across various domains and a wide range of downstream vision-language tasks. However, the text encoders in popular CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Mothilal Asokan , Kebin Wu , Fatima Albreiki

Large-scale Pre-Training Vision-Language Model such as CLIP has demonstrated outstanding performance in zero-shot classification, e.g. achieving 76.3% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet without seeing any example, which leads to potential benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xuefeng Hu , Ke Zhang , Lu Xia , Albert Chen , Jiajia Luo , Yuyin Sun , Ken Wang , Nan Qiao , Xiao Zeng , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ram Nevatia

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP achieve strong zero-shot recognition by comparing image embeddings to text-derived class prototypes. However, under domain shift, they suffer from feature drift, class-prior mismatch, and severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Byunghyun Kim

Vision-language models (VLMs), despite their extraordinary zero-shot capabilities, are vulnerable to distribution shifts. Test-time adaptation (TTA) emerges as a predominant strategy to adapt VLMs to unlabeled test data on the fly. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhichen Zeng , Wenxuan Bao , Xiao Lin , Ruizhong Qiu , Tianxin Wei , Xuying Ning , Yuchen Yan , Chen Luo , Monica Xiao Cheng , Jingrui He , Hanghang Tong

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong generalization in zero-shot classification but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing methods primarily focus on adversarial fine-tuning or prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Shuo Wang , Kesen Zhao , Hanwang Zhang

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited impressive zero-shot performance and transferability, allowing them to adapt to downstream tasks in a data-efficient manner. However, when only a few labeled samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ce Zhang , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

Efficient transfer learning (ETL) is receiving increasing attention to adapt large pre-trained language-vision models on downstream tasks with a few labeled samples. While significant progress has been made, we reveal that state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Sina Hajimiri , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Extending CLIP models to semantic segmentation remains challenging due to the misalignment between their image-level pre-training objectives and the pixel-level visual understanding required for dense prediction. While prior efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jinxin Zhou , Jiachen Jiang , Zhihui Zhu

Although open-vocabulary classification models like Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) have demonstrated strong zero-shot learning capabilities, their robustness to common image corruptions remains poorly understood. Through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Baoming Zhang , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Yunhui Guo

Few-shot image classification remains a critical challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in data-scarce environments. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained visual-language models, such as CLIP. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xi Yang , Pai Peng , Wulin Xie , Xiaohuan Lu , Jie Wen