activity
20242026
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9 papers

cs.CV2026

OASIC: Occlusion-Agnostic and Severity-Informed Classification

Kay Gijzen, Gertjan J. Burghouts, Daniël M. Pelt

Severe occlusions of objects pose a major challenge for computer vision. We show that two root causes are (1) the loss of visible information and (2) the distracting patterns cause…

cs.CL2026

Better Language Models Exhibit Higher Visual Alignment

Jona Ruthardt, Gertjan J. Burghouts, Serge Belongie +1

How well do text-only large language models (LLMs) align with the visual world? We present a systematic evaluation of this question by incorporating frozen representations of vario…

cs.CV2025

Neurosymbolic Inference On Foundation Models For Remote Sensing Text-to-image Retrieval With Complex Queries

Emanuele Mezzi, Gertjan Burghouts, Maarten Kruithof

Text-to-image retrieval in remote sensing (RS) has advanced rapidly with the rise of large vision-language models (LVLMs) tailored for aerial and satellite imagery, culminating in…

cs.CV2025

Occlusion Robustness of CLIP for Military Vehicle Classification

Jan Erik van Woerden, Gertjan Burghouts, Lotte Nijskens +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP enable zero-shot classification by aligning images and text in a shared embedding space, offering advantages for defense applications with s…

cs.CV2025

Textual Inversion for Efficient Adaptation of Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors Without Forgetting

Frank Ruis, Gertjan Burghouts, Hugo Kuijf

Recent progress in large pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) has reached state-of-the-art performance on several object detection benchmarks and boasts strong zero-shot capab…

cs.CV2025

Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models' scene understanding

Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi, Gertjan Burghouts +2

We introduce NeCo: Patch Neighbor Consistency, a novel self-supervised training loss that enforces patch-level nearest neighbor consistency across a student and teacher model. Comp…