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EV-CLIP: Efficient Visual Prompt Adaptation for CLIP in Few-shot Action Recognition under Visual Challenges

Hyo Jin Jon, Longbin Jin, Eun Yi Kim

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Published 2026-04-24 · First seen 2026-04-27

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CLIP has demonstrated strong generalization in visual domains through natural language supervision, even for video action recognition. However, most existing approaches that adapt CLIP for action recognition have primarily focused on temporal modeling, often overlooking spatial perception. In real-world scenarios, visual challenges such as low-light environments or egocentric viewpoints can severely impair spatial understanding, an essential precursor for effective temporal reasoning. To address this limitation, we propose Efficient Visual Prompting for CLIP (EV-CLIP), an efficient adaptation framework designed for few-shot video action recognition across diverse scenes and viewpoints. EV-CLIP introduces two visual prompts: mask prompts, which guide the model's attention to action-relevant regions by reweighting pixels, and context prompts, which perform lightweight temporal modeling by compressing frame-wise features into a compact representation. For a comprehensive evaluation, we curate five benchmark datasets and analyze domain shifts to quantify the influence of diverse visual and semantic factors on action recognition. Experimental results demonstrate that EV-CLIP outperforms existing parameter-efficient methods in overall performance. Moreover, its efficiency remains independent of the backbone scale, making it well-suited for deployment in real-world, resource-constrained scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/AI-CV-Lab/EV-CLIP.

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@article{jon2026ev,
  title = {EV-CLIP: Efficient Visual Prompt Adaptation for CLIP in Few-shot Action Recognition under Visual Challenges},
  author = {Hyo Jin Jon and Longbin Jin and Eun Yi Kim},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {CLIP has demonstrated strong generalization in visual domains through natural language supervision, even for video action recognition. However, most existing approaches that adapt CLIP for action recognition have primarily focused on temporal modeling, often overlooking spatial perception. In real-world scenarios, visual challenges such as low-light environments or egocentric viewpoints can severely impair spatial understanding, an essential precursor for effective temporal reasoning. To address},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22595},
  keywords = {cs.CV},
  eprint = {2604.22595},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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