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The rapid growth of video content demands efficient and precise retrieval systems. While vision-language models (VLMs) excel in representation learning, they often struggle with adaptive, time-sensitive video retrieval. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yicheng Duan , Xi Huang , Duo Chen

Event-based image retrieval from free-form captions presents a significant challenge: models must understand not only visual features but also latent event semantics, context, and real-world knowledge. Conventional vision-language retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dinh-Khoi Vo , Van-Loc Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

We present a multi-modal dialog system to assist online shoppers in visually browsing through large catalogs. Visual browsing is different from visual search in that it allows the user to explore the wide range of products in a catalog,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Indrani Bhattacharya , Arkabandhu Chowdhury , Vikas Raykar

Retrieval and recommendation are two essential tasks in modern search tools. This paper introduces a novel retrieval-reranking framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the spatiotemporal and semantic associated mining…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yuanyuan Tian , Wenwen Li , Lei Hu , Xiao Chen , Michael Brook , Michael Brubaker , Fan Zhang , Anna K. Liljedahl

Many ecological questions center on complex phenomena, such as species interactions, behaviors, phenology, and responses to disturbance, that are inherently difficult to observe and sparsely documented. Community science platforms such as…

Searching is an important tool of information gathering, if information is in the form of picture than it play a major role to take quick action and easy to memorize. This is a human tendency to retain more picture than text. The complexity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-12-12 Anamika Sharma

Text-to-video retrieval enables users to find relevant video content using natural language queries, a task that has grown increasingly important with the rapid expansion of online video. Over the past six years, research has produced…

The increasing amount of online videos brings several opportunities for training self-supervised neural networks. The creation of large scale datasets of videos such as the YouTube-8M allows us to deal with this large amount of data in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Didac Surís , Amanda Duarte , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto

The search of information in large text repositories has been plagued by the so-called document-query vocabulary gap, i.e. the semantic discordance between the contents in the stored document entities on the one hand and the human query on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bhawani Selvaretnam , Mohammed Belkhatir

In spite of the development of content-based data management, text-based searching remains the primary means of multimedia retrieval in many areas. Automatic creation of text metadata is thus a crucial tool for increasing the findability of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jan Botorek , Petra Budikova , Pavel Zezula

In this paper, we present WISE, an open-source audiovisual search engine which integrates a range of multimodal retrieval capabilities into a single, practical tool accessible to users without machine learning expertise. WISE supports…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Prasanna Sridhar , Horace Lee , David M. S. Pinto , Andrew Zisserman , Abhishek Dutta

Providing personalized recommendations in an environment where items exhibit ephemerality and temporal relevancy (e.g. in social media) presents a few unique challenges: (1) inductively understanding ephemeral appeal for items in a setting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Frank Portman , Stephen Ragain , Ahmed El-Kishky

Long-term memory is increasingly important for personalized AI agents, yet existing benchmarks and methods remain largely text-centric. Even when images are included, the user-specific information needed for later questions is typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Viet Nguyen , Thao Nguyen , Vishal M. Patel , Yuheng Li

Existing multimodal retrieval systems excel at semantic matching but implicitly assume that query-image relevance can be measured in isolation. This paradigm overlooks the rich dependencies inherent in realistic visual streams, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenlong Deng , Mengjie Deng , Junjie Wu , Dun Zeng , Teng Wang , Qingsong Xie , Jiadeng Huang , Shengjie Ma , Changwang Zhang , Zhaoxiang Wang , Jun Wang , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

The query-based moment retrieval is a problem of localising a specific clip from an untrimmed video according a query sentence. This is a challenging task that requires interpretation of both the natural language query and the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä

The amount of audio-visual information has increased dramatically with the advent of High Speed Internet. Furthermore, technological advances in recent years in the field of information technology, have simplified the use of video data in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-12-30 M. Ben Halima , M. Hamroun , S. Ben Moussa , A. M. Alimi

Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in vision-language learning, yet in real-world scenarios it is often challenged by short and underspecified user queries. Such queries are typically only one or two words long, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jianglin Lu , Simon Jenni , Kushal Kafle , Jing Shi , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

Retrieving images from natural language descriptions is a core task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, with wide-ranging applications in search engines, media archiving, and digital content management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Dao Sy Duy Minh , Huynh Trung Kiet , Nguyen Lam Phu Quy , Phu-Hoa Pham , Tran Chi Nguyen

Media sharing applications, such as Flickr and Panoramio, contain a large amount of pictures related to real life events. For this reason, the development of effective methods to retrieve these pictures is important, but still a challenging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Massimiliano Ruocco , Heri Ramampiaro

Many users turn to document retrieval systems (e.g. search engines) to seek answers to controversial questions. Answering such user queries usually require identifying responses within web documents, and aggregating the responses based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sihao Chen , Siyi Liu , Xander Uyttendaele , Yi Zhang , William Bruno , Dan Roth