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Fabio Carrara

4 accepted papers

2026

One Patch to Caption Them All: A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning Framework

CVPR 2026

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 an image, they proceed by textually decoding a text-aligned image feature, but they limit their scope to global represen

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2026

Reviving ConvNeXt for Efficient Convolutional Diffusion Models

CVPR 2026

Recent diffusion models increasingly favor Transformer backbones, motivated by the remarkable scalability of fully attentional architectures. Yet the locality bias, parameter efficiency, and hardware friendliness--the attributes that established ConvNets as the efficient vision backbone--have seen l

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2025

Talking to DINO: Bridging Self-Supervised Vision Backbones with Language for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

ICCV 2025poster

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 can generate segmentation masks by leveraging coarse spatial information from Vision Transformers, they face challenges…

2024

The Devil is in the Fine-Grained Details: Evaluating Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors for Fine-Grained Understanding

CVPR 2024highlight

Recent advancements in large vision-language models enabled visual object detection in open-vocabulary scenarios where object classes are defined in free-text formats during inference. In this paper we aim to probe the state-of-the-art methods for open-vocabulary object detection to determine to wha…