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CLIP-ViP: Adapting Pre-trained Image-Text Model to Video-Language Representation Alignment

14 Sep 2022arXiv:2209.06430archive 2025-07-28

Hongwei Xue, Yuchong Sun, Bei Liu, Jianlong Fu, Ruihua Song, Houqiang Li, Jiebo Luo

The pre-trained image-text models, like CLIP, have demonstrated the strong power of vision-language representation learned from a large scale of web-collected image-text data. In light of the well-learned visual features, some existing works transfer image representation to video domain and achieve good results. However, how to utilize image-language pre-trained model (e.g., CLIP) for video-language pre-training (post-pretraining) is still under explored. In this paper, we investigate two questions: 1) what are the factors hindering post-pretraining CLIP to further improve the performance on video-language tasks? and 2) how to mitigate the impact of these factors? Through a series of comparative experiments and analyses, we find that the data scale and domain gap between language sources have great impacts. Motivated by these, we propose a Omnisource Cross-modal Learning method equipped with a Video Proxy mechanism on the basis of CLIP, namely CLIP-ViP. Extensive results show that our approach improves the performance of CLIP on video-text retrieval by a large margin. Our model also achieves SOTA results on a variety of datasets, including MSR-VTT, DiDeMo, LSMDC, and ActivityNet. We will release our code and pre-trained CLIP-ViP models at https://github.com/microsoft/XPretrain/tree/main/CLIP-ViP.

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Tasks

RetrievalText RetrievalVideo RetrievalVideo-Text Retrieval

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Retrieval ActivityNet CLIP-ViP text-to-video Median Rank 1 #9 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval ActivityNet CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@1 61.4 #9 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval ActivityNet CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@10 92.6 #9 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval ActivityNet CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@5 85.7 #9 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval DiDeMo CLIP-ViP text-to-video Median Rank 1 #16 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval DiDeMo CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@1 55.3 #16 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval DiDeMo CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@10 89.3 #16 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval DiDeMo CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@5 82 #16 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval LSMDC CLIP-ViP text-to-video Median Rank 5 #9 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval LSMDC CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@1 30.7 #9 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval LSMDC CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@10 60.6 #9 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval LSMDC CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@5 51.4 #9 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA CLIP-ViP text-to-video Median Rank 1.0 #2 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@1 57.7 #2 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@10 88.2 #2 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA CLIP-ViP text-to-video R@5 80.5 #2 of 63 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

CLIP

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