Summary of Visual-text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-language Models, by Jinhao Li et al.
Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models
by Jinhao Li, Haopeng Li, Sarah Erfani, Lei Feng, James Bailey, Feng Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) like CLIP can enhance zero-shot performance when used to align query images with fine-grained text descriptions. However, this approach is more effective at localizing specific areas of the image rather than the entire scene. To improve alignment accuracy, a weighted visual-text cross-alignment (WCA) method is proposed. This method starts by identifying localized visual prompts within the query image and then aligns these prompts with fine-grained text descriptions using the pre-trained VLM. A score function based on the weighted similarities in the resulting matrix is used to determine how well each category aligns with the query image. Extensive experiments demonstrate that WCA significantly improves zero-shot performance across various datasets, achieving results comparable to few-shot learning methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new method helps computers understand images better by matching specific parts of the image with text descriptions. This can be useful for tasks like searching for objects or scenes in images. The method uses a powerful computer model that’s been trained on many images and texts. It works by identifying specific areas within an image and then matching those areas to corresponding text descriptions. This helps the computer understand what’s happening in the image more accurately, which can lead to better results. The new method is tested on several datasets and shows great promise. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Few shot » Language model » Zero shot
