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The modern image search system requires semantic understanding of image, and a key yet under-addressed problem is to learn a good metric for measuring the similarity between images. While deep metric learning has yielded impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Jian Wang , Feng Zhou , Shilei Wen , Xiao Liu , Yuanqing Lin

Humans recognize objects after observing only a few examples, a remarkable capability enabled by their inherent language understanding of the real-world environment. Developing verbalized and interpretable representation can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Cheng-Fu Yang , Da Yin , Wenbo Hu , Heng Ji , Nanyun Peng , Bolei Zhou , Kai-Wei Chang

Pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities, making them promising tools in the realm of zero-shot visual recognition. Visual relation detection (VRD) is a typical task that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Lin Li , Jun Xiao , Guikun Chen , Jian Shao , Yueting Zhuang , Long Chen

We target at the task of weakly-supervised video object grounding (WSVOG), where only video-sentence annotations are available during model learning. It aims to localize objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Wang , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

In this paper, we propose a weakly-supervised approach for 3D object detection, which makes it possible to train a strong 3D detector with position-level annotations (i.e. annotations of object centers). In order to remedy the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xiuwei Xu , Yifan Wang , Yu Zheng , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

This paper addresses Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which is essential for the safe navigation of mobile robots. The solution we propose employs panoramic images and deep learning models, which are fine-tuned with triplet loss functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Marcos Alfaro , Juan José Cabrera , María Flores , Óscar Reinoso , Luis Payá

Few-shot relation learning refers to infer facts for relations with a limited number of observed triples. Existing metric-learning methods for this problem mostly neglect entity interactions within and between triples. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 YI Liang , Shuai Zhao , Bo Cheng , Yuwei Yin , Hao Yang

Despite the importance of relation extraction in building and representing knowledge, less research is focused on generalizing to unseen relations types. We introduce the task setting of Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction (ZeroRTE) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yew Ken Chia , Lidong Bing , Soujanya Poria , Luo Si

Identifying the same individual across different scenes is an important yet difficult task in intelligent video surveillance. Its main difficulty lies in how to preserve similarity of the same person against large appearance and structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Shengyong Ding , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang , Hongyang Chao

Multiview recognition has been well studied in the literature and achieves decent performance in object recognition and retrieval task. However, most previous works rely on supervised learning and some impractical underlying assumptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Chih-Hui Ho , Bo Liu , Tz-Ying Wu , Nuno Vasconcelos

Object category localization is a challenging problem in computer vision. Standard supervised training requires bounding box annotations of object instances. This time-consuming annotation process is sidestepped in weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Jakob Verbeek , Cordelia Schmid

The tracking-by-detection framework requires a set of positive and negative training samples to learn robust tracking models for precise localization of target objects. However, existing tracking models mostly treat different samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Xiao Wang , Chenglong Li , Rui Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Recognizing visual relationships <subject-predicate-object> among any pair of localized objects is pivotal for image understanding. Previous studies have shown remarkable progress in exploiting linguistic priors or external textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Guojun Yin , Lu Sheng , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu , Xiaogang Wang , Jing Shao , Chen Change Loy

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a fully differentiable unsupervised deep clustering approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Steven Hickson , Anelia Angelova , Irfan Essa , Rahul Sukthankar

Spatial relationships between objects represent key scene information for humans to understand and interact with the world. To study the capability of current computer vision systems to recognize physically grounded spatial relations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Chuan Wen , Dinesh Jayaraman , Yang Gao

Recent advances of deep learning have achieved remarkable performances in various challenging computer vision tasks. Especially in object localization, deep convolutional neural networks outperform traditional approaches based on extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Sangheum Hwang , Hyo-Eun Kim

We propose a weakly-supervised multi-view learning approach to learn category-specific surface mapping without dense annotations. We learn the underlying surface geometry of common categories, such as human faces, cars, and airplanes, given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Nishant Rai , Aidas Liaudanskas , Srinivas Rao , Rodrigo Ortiz Cayon , Matteo Munaro , Stefan Holzer

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gabriel Huang , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pau Rodriguez

We present an active learning strategy for training parametric models of distance metrics, given triplet-based similarity assessments: object $x_i$ is more similar to object $x_j$ than to $x_k$. In contrast to prior work on class-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Priyadarshini K , Ritesh Goru , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Subhasis Chaudhuri