The CLIP model has demonstrated significant advancements in aligning visual and language modalities through large-scale pre-training on image-text pairs, enabling strong zero-shot classification and retrieval capabilities on various domains. However, CLIP's training remains computationally intensive, with high demands on both data processing and memory. To address these challenges, recent masking strategies have emerged, focusing on the selective removal of image patches to improve training efficiency. Although effective, these methods often compromise key semantic information, resulting in suboptimal alignment between visual features and text descriptions. In this work, we present a concise yet effective approach called Patch Generation-to-Selection to enhance CLIP's training efficiency while preserving critical semantic content. Our method introduces a gradual masking process in which a small set of candidate patches is first pre-selected as potential mask regions. Then, we apply Sobel edge detection across the entire image to generate an edge mask that prioritizes the retention of the primary object areas. Finally, similarity scores between the candidate mask patches and their neighboring patches are computed, with optimal transport normalization refining the selection process to ensure a balanced similarity matrix. Our approach, CLIP-PGS, sets new state-of-the-art results in zero-shot classification and retrieval tasks, achieving superior performance in robustness evaluation and language compositionality benchmarks.
Describe, Adapt and Combine: Empowering CLIP Encoders for Open-set 3D Object Retrieval
Huazhong Agricultural University（华中农业大学）；Shenzhen University（深圳大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；University of Louisville（路易斯安那大学）；ByteDance（字节跳动）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Seeing 3D Through 2D Lenses: 3D Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Geometric Rectification
South China University of Technology（南方科技大学）；State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science（亚热带建筑科学国家重点实验室）；Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Computational Intelligence and Cyberspace Information（广东省计算智能与网络信息重点实验室）；Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot（教育部大数据与智能机器人重点实验室）；Singapore Management University（新加坡国立大学）
School of Computer Science and Engineering（计算机科学与工程学院）；The Hebrew University of Jerusalem（耶路撒冷希伯来大学）
Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new class category which is very time-consuming and expensive. Additionally, the ability of current semantic segmentation networks to handle a large number of categories is limited. That means that images containing rare class categories are unlikely to be well segmented by current methods. In this paper we propose a novel approach for creating semantic segmentation…
We introduce a seemingly impossible task: given only an audio clip of someone speaking, decide which of two face images is the speaker. In this paper we study this, and a number of related cross-modal tasks, aimed at answering the question: how much can we infer from the voice about the face and vice versa? We study this task "in the wild", employing the datasets that are now publicly available for face recognition from static images (VGGFace) and speaker identification from audio (VoxCeleb). These provide training and testing scenarios for both static and dynamic testing of cross-modal matchi…
Can a generative model be trained to produce images from a specific domain, guided by a text prompt only, without seeing any image? In other words: can an image generator be trained "blindly"? Leveraging the semantic power of large scale Contrastive-Language-Image-Pre-training (CLIP) models, we present a text-driven method that allows shifting a generative model to new domains, without having to collect even a single image. We show that through natural language prompts and a few minutes of training, our method can adapt a generator across a multitude of domains characterized by diverse styles …
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Microsoft Research Asia（微软亚洲研究院）；Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）
Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However, it is still unclear how to make the open-vocabulary recognition work well on broader vision problems. This paper targets open-vocabulary semantic segmentation by building it on an off-the-shelf pre-trained vision-language model, i.e., CLIP. However, semantic segmentation and the CLIP model perform on different visual granularity, that semantic segmentation p…
TokLIP: Marry Visual Tokens to CLIP for Multimodal Comprehension and Generation
ARC Lab, Tencent PCG（腾讯PCG广告实验室）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；NLPR & MAIS, Institute of Automation, CAS, Beijing（自动化研究所）
NAVER AI Lab（NAVER人工智能实验室）；CLOVA；SNU AIIS（首尔大学人工智能研究所）；KAIST AI（韩国科学技术院人工智能研究生院）
Text-to-image generation and image captioning are recently emerged as a new experimental paradigm to assess machine intelligence. They predict continuous quantity accompanied by their sampling techniques in the generation, making evaluation complicated and intractable to get marginal distributions. Based on a recent trend that multimodal generative evaluations exploit a vison-and-language pre-trained model, we propose the negative Gaussian cross-mutual information using the CLIP features as a unified metric, coined by Mutual Information Divergence (MID). To validate, we extensively compare it …
Common Deep Metric Learning (DML) datasets specify only one notion of similarity, e.g., two images in the Cars196 dataset are deemed similar if they show the same car model. We argue that depending on the application, users of image retrieval systems have different and changing similarity notions that should be incorporated as easily as possible. Therefore, we present Language-Guided Zero-Shot Deep Metric Learning (LanZ-DML) as a new DML setting in which users control the properties that should be important for image representations without training data by only using natural language. To this…
