Towards Unified Benchmark and Models for Multi-Modal Perceptual Metrics

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Hauptverfasser: Ghazanfari, Sara, Garg, Siddharth, Flammarion, Nicolas, Krishnamurthy, Prashanth, Khorrami, Farshad, Croce, Francesco
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author Ghazanfari, Sara
Garg, Siddharth
Flammarion, Nicolas
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
Croce, Francesco
author_facet Ghazanfari, Sara
Garg, Siddharth
Flammarion, Nicolas
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
Croce, Francesco
contents Human perception of similarity across uni- and multimodal inputs is highly complex, making it challenging to develop automated metrics that accurately mimic it. General purpose vision-language models, such as CLIP and large multi-modal models (LMMs), can be applied as zero-shot perceptual metrics, and several recent works have developed models specialized in narrow perceptual tasks. However, the extent to which existing perceptual metrics align with human perception remains unclear. To investigate this question, we introduce UniSim-Bench, a benchmark encompassing 7 multi-modal perceptual similarity tasks, with a total of 25 datasets. Our evaluation reveals that while general-purpose models perform reasonably well on average, they often lag behind specialized models on individual tasks. Conversely, metrics fine-tuned for specific tasks fail to generalize well to unseen, though related, tasks. As a first step towards a unified multi-task perceptual similarity metric, we fine-tune both encoder-based and generative vision-language models on a subset of the UniSim-Bench tasks. This approach yields the highest average performance, and in some cases, even surpasses taskspecific models. Nevertheless, these models still struggle with generalization to unseen tasks, highlighting the ongoing challenge of learning a robust, unified perceptual similarity metric capable of capturing the human notion of similarity. The code and models are available at https://github.com/SaraGhazanfari/UniSim.
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spellingShingle Towards Unified Benchmark and Models for Multi-Modal Perceptual Metrics
Ghazanfari, Sara
Garg, Siddharth
Flammarion, Nicolas
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
Croce, Francesco
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Human perception of similarity across uni- and multimodal inputs is highly complex, making it challenging to develop automated metrics that accurately mimic it. General purpose vision-language models, such as CLIP and large multi-modal models (LMMs), can be applied as zero-shot perceptual metrics, and several recent works have developed models specialized in narrow perceptual tasks. However, the extent to which existing perceptual metrics align with human perception remains unclear. To investigate this question, we introduce UniSim-Bench, a benchmark encompassing 7 multi-modal perceptual similarity tasks, with a total of 25 datasets. Our evaluation reveals that while general-purpose models perform reasonably well on average, they often lag behind specialized models on individual tasks. Conversely, metrics fine-tuned for specific tasks fail to generalize well to unseen, though related, tasks. As a first step towards a unified multi-task perceptual similarity metric, we fine-tune both encoder-based and generative vision-language models on a subset of the UniSim-Bench tasks. This approach yields the highest average performance, and in some cases, even surpasses taskspecific models. Nevertheless, these models still struggle with generalization to unseen tasks, highlighting the ongoing challenge of learning a robust, unified perceptual similarity metric capable of capturing the human notion of similarity. The code and models are available at https://github.com/SaraGhazanfari/UniSim.
title Towards Unified Benchmark and Models for Multi-Modal Perceptual Metrics
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10594