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ARXIV:2602.16590 · COMPUTER VISION - SPECIALIZED IMAGE ANALYSIS · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.16590COMPUTER VISION - SPECIALIZED IMAGE ANALYSISSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
"CLIP-MHAdapter offers efficient and accurate street-view image classification by leveraging an adaptive contrastive learning framework with attention-based feature refinement."
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"CLIP-MHAdapter offers efficient and accurate street-view image classification by leveraging an adaptive contrastive learning framework with attention-based feature refinement." It remains computationally demanding whether training from scratch, initialising from pre-trained weights, or fine-tuning large…
Street-view image attribute classification is a vital downstream task of image classification, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, urban analytics, and high-definition map construction. It remains computationally demanding whether training from scratch, initialising from…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. With approximately 1.4 million trainable parameters, CLIP-MHAdapter achieves superior or competitive accuracy across eight attribute classification tasks on the Global StreetScapes dataset, attaining new…
Computer Vision - Specialized Image Analysis moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
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"CLIP-MHAdapter offers efficient and accurate street-view image classification by leveraging an adaptive contrastive learning framework with attention-based feature refinement."
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.16590"CLIP-MHAdapter offers efficient and accurate street-view image classification by leveraging an adaptive contrastive learning framework with attention-based feature refinement."
Abstract
Street-view image attribute classification is a vital downstream task of image classification, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, urban analytics, and high-definition map construction. It remains computationally demanding whether training from scratch, initialising from pre-trained weights, or fine-tuning large models. Although pre-trained vision-language models such as CLIP offer rich image representations, existing adaptation or fine-tuning methods often rely on their global image embeddings, limiting their ability to capture fine-grained, localised attributes essential in complex, cluttered street scenes. To address this, we propose CLIP-MHAdapter, a variant of the current lightweight CLIP adaptation paradigm that appends a bottleneck MLP equipped with multi-head self-attention operating on patch tokens to model inter-patch dependencies. With approximately 1.4 million trainable parameters, CLIP-MHAdapter achieves superior or competitive accuracy across eight attribute classification tasks on the Global StreetScapes dataset, attaining new state-of-the-art results while maintaining low computational cost. The code is available at https://github.com/SpaceTimeLab/CLIP-MHAdapter.
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"CLIP-MHAdapter offers efficient and accurate street-view image classification by leveraging an adaptive contrastive learning framework with attention-based feature refinement." It remains computationally demanding whether training from scratch, initialising from pre-trained wei...
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Street-view image attribute classification is a vital downstream task of image classification, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, urban analytics, and high-definition map construction. It remains computationally demanding whether training from scratch, initialisin...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. With approximately 1.4 million trainable parameters, CLIP-MHAdapter achieves superior or competitive accuracy across eight attribute classification tasks on the Global StreetScapes dataset, attaining new...
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Computer Vision - Specialized Image Analysis moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
CLIP-MHAdapter achieves superior or competitive accuracy across eight attribute classification tasks on the Global StreetScapes dataset
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while maintaining low computational cost
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we propose CLIP-MHAdapter, a variant of the current lightweight CLIP adaptation paradigm
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appends a bottleneck MLP equipped with multi-head self-attention operating on patch tokens to model inter-patch dependencies
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The method could replace existing computationally expensive image classification techniques by offering a faster, less resource-intensive solution tailored to street-view image data.
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Model performance might vary with non-standardized street-view images that are not covered in the training dataset
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With approximately 1.4 million trainable parameters
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"CLIP-MHAdapter offers efficient and accurate street-view image classification by leveraging an adaptive contrastive learning framework with attention-based feature refinement."
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