arXiv:2607. 26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense vision-language understanding, including object localization, region recognition, and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, requires associating language concepts with spatially grounded visual regions.
By Xinran Liu, Shouqian Shi, Yutong Chen, Ge Wang, Xin-Wei Yao, Sheng Zhong
arXiv:2607. 03595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Affordance grounding aims to localize image regions that support a specific action, serving as a core capability for physical intelligence and embodied perception.
By Seung Il Lee, Qinqian Lei, Daguang Xu, Dong Yang, Robby T. Tan, Yixin Chen, Bo Wang
MLLMCLIP introduces a heterogeneous distillation framework that transfers multimodal knowledge from a generative Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) teacher directly into a discriminative CLIP student, eliminating the need for synthetic hard negatives. The method uses an attention-based per-layer token selection and a CKA-based distillation loss to bridge architectural differences between the two models. As a result, MLLMCLIP achieves state‑of‑the‑art compositional accuracy and improves zero‑shot classification and image‑text retrieval performance.
By Jongsuk Kim, Qiyu Wu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Hiromi Wakaki, Junmo Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv:2609.17790v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong cross-domain recognition performance even without additional training. However, this robustnes...
By Akanksha Singh, Vinod K. Kurmi
Pretrained vision-language models such as CLIP excel at zero-shot recognition but often fail at compositionality, particularly attribute-object and relational structures. Recent studies mitigate this...
arXiv:2608.30003v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prototypical part-based models provide explainable predictions by comparing input regions to learned prototypes. However, current approaches are burden...
By Il\'an Carretero, Gustavo Jes\'us Angulo, Roc\'io del Amor, Valery Naranjo
Crane is a CLIP‑based framework for zero‑shot anomaly detection that enhances dense localization by adapting the vision encoder with a correlation‑based attention module and conditioning learnable prompts on global image context. It further fuses anomaly‑relevant patch features into the global representation for more sensitive image‑level detection, and a variant called Crane+ leverages DINOv2 spatial correlations for stronger pixel‑level performance. Across seven industrial benchmarks, Crane raises mean image‑level AP by 4.5% and Crane+ boosts mean pixel‑level AUPRO by 9.0%.
By Alireza Salehi, Mohammadreza Salehi, Reshad Hosseini, Cees G. M. Snoek, Makoto Yamada, Mohammad Sabokrou
The paper introduces Language-driven Dense Semantic Adaptor (LDSA) for multi-label image classification with incomplete annotations. LDSA leverages multimodal pretrained CLIP models to extract prior-adaptive relationships, employing a densely contrastive adaptor for visual contrastive constraints and a language-driven interactive decoder with class-specific prompt tuning. Experiments show LDSA achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on public benchmarks and reveals implicit semantic relationships through its learning scheme.
By Cheng Chen, Yifan Zhao, Jia Li
Background-Free Objectness Learning (B-FOR) is a dense, class‑agnostic detection framework that learns objectness without treating unlabeled regions as background. It predicts multi‑scale object‑center and scale fields, using spatially structured soft targets to supervise only reliable annotated areas and introduces displacement‑aware scale fields to model object extent. Experiments on PASCAL VOC, MS‑COCO, and Open Images show B‑FOR improves recall by over +10 AR points compared to prior class‑agnostic baselines, with ablation studies confirming the importance of localized supervision and displacement‑aware scaling.
By Dania Batool, Liliana Lo Presti, Marco La Cascia, Filippo Vella
arXiv:2608. 03826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial and urban applications increasingly require models to compare heterogeneous evidence across street-view imagery, remote-sensing observations, text descriptions, region proposals, and temporal change cues.
By Jiapeng Li, Yong Li, Junjie Zhou, Fan Zhang, Yu Liu
arXiv:2404. 10034v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) allows training deep learning models for classification and localization (LOC) using only global class-level labels.
By Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger
arXiv:2602. 21397v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt learning has become a dominant paradigm for adapting vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks without modifying pretrained weights.
By Sajjad Ghiasvand, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Ramtin Pedarsani