Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

FALIP: Visual Prompt as Foveal Attention Boosts CLIP Zero-Shot Performance

Jiedong Zhuang · Jiaqi Hu · Lianrui Mu · Rui Hu · Xiaoyu Liang · Jiangnan Ye · Haoji Hu

Strong blind review: This paper was not made available on public preprint services during the review process Strong Double Blind
[ ]
Fri 4 Oct 1:30 a.m. PDT — 3:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

CLIP has achieved impressive zero-shot performance after pretraining on a large-scale dataset consisting of paired image-text data. Previous works have utilized CLIP by incorporating manually designed visual prompts like colored circles and blur masks into the images to guide the model's attention, showing enhanced zero-shot performance in downstream tasks. Although these methods have achieved promising results, they inevitably alter the original information of the images, which can lead to failure in specific tasks. We propose a train-free method Foveal-Attention CLIP (FALIP), which adjusts the CLIP's attention by inserting foveal attention masks into the multi-head self-attention module. We demonstrate FALIP effectively boosts CLIP zero-shot performance in tasks such as referring expressions comprehension, image classification, and 3D point cloud recognition. Experimental results further show that FALIP outperforms existing methods on most metrics and can augment current methods to enhance their performance.

Live content is unavailable. Log in and register to view live content