4 papers
One Patch to Caption Them All: A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning Framework
Lorenzo Bianchi, Giacomo Pacini, Fabio Carrara +3
Zero-shot captioners are recently proposed models that utilize common-space vision-language representations to caption images without relying on paired image-text data. To caption…
Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models
Taesung Kwon, Lorenzo Bianchi, Lennart Wittke +5
Recent diffusion models increasingly favor Transformer backbones, motivated by the remarkable scalability of fully attentional architectures. Yet the locality bias, parameter effic…
CountingDINO: A Training-free Pipeline for Class-Agnostic Counting using Unsupervised Backbones
Giacomo Pacini, Lorenzo Bianchi, Luca Ciampi +3
Class-agnostic counting (CAC) aims to estimate the number of objects in images without being restricted to predefined categories. However, while current exemplar-based CAC methods…
Talking to DINO: Bridging Self-Supervised Vision Backbones with Language for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
Luca Barsellotti, Lorenzo Bianchi, Nicola Messina +5
Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims at segmenting images from free-form textual concepts without predefined training classes. While existing vision-language models such as CLIP…