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Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval Considering Query-target Relationship Leveraging Masked Image-text Pairs

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024-06-28 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel zero-shot composed image retrieval (CIR) method considering the query-target relationship by masked image-text pairs. The objective of CIR is to retrieve the target image using a query image and a query text. Existing methods use a textual inversion network to convert the query image into a pseudo word to compose the image and text and use a pre-trained visual-language model to realize the retrieval. However, they do not consider the query-target relationship to train the textual inversion network to acquire information for retrieval. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot CIR method that is trained end-to-end using masked image-text pairs. By exploiting the abundant image-text pairs that are convenient to obtain with a masking strategy for learning the query-target relationship, it is expected that accurate zero-shot CIR using a retrieval-focused textual inversion network can be realized. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.18836,
  title  = {Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval Considering Query-target Relationship Leveraging Masked Image-text Pairs},
  author = {Huaying Zhang and Rintaro Yanagi and Ren Togo and Takahiro Ogawa and Miki Haseyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18836},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Accepted as a conference paper in IEEE ICIP 2024

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