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Representation learning is the foundation for the recent success of neural network models. However, the distributed representations generated by neural networks are far from ideal. Due to their highly entangled nature, they are di cult to…
Querying with text-image-based search engines in highly homogeneous domain-specific image collections is challenging for users, as they often struggle to provide descriptive text queries. For example, in an underwater domain, users can…
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