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Diffusion models have revolted the field of text-to-image generation recently. The unique way of fusing text and image information contributes to their remarkable capability of generating highly text-related images. From another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Changming Xiao , Qi Yang , Feng Zhou , Changshui Zhang

Text-based person search aims at retrieving target person in an image gallery using a descriptive sentence of that person. It is very challenging since modal gap makes effectively extracting discriminative features more difficult. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Chenyang Gao , Guanyu Cai , Xinyang Jiang , Feng Zheng , Jun Zhang , Yifei Gong , Pai Peng , Xiaowei Guo , Xing Sun

Image-language matching tasks have recently attracted a lot of attention in the computer vision field. These tasks include image-sentence matching, i.e., given an image query, retrieving relevant sentences and vice versa, and region-phrase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Liwei Wang , Yin Li , Jing Huang , Svetlana Lazebnik

Fine-grained image-text alignment is a pivotal challenge in multimodal learning, underpinning key applications such as visual question answering, image captioning, and vision-language navigation. Unlike global alignment, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiale Liu , Haoming Zhou , Yishu Liu , Bingzhi Chen , Yuncheng Jiang

We propose a novel attention model that can accurately attends to target objects of various scales and shapes in images. The model is trained to gradually suppress irrelevant regions in an input image via a progressive attentive process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Xiaohui Shen , Bohyung Han

The idea of using the recurrent neural network for visual attention has gained popularity in computer vision community. Although the recurrent attention model (RAM) leverages the glimpses with more large patch size to increasing its scope,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Gang Chen

Grounding textual phrases in visual content is a meaningful yet challenging problem with various potential applications such as image-text inference or text-driven multimedia interaction. Most of the current existing methods adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Tianshu Yu , Yezhou Yang

Matching images and sentences demands a fine understanding of both modalities. In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space. In this field, most existing works apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Michael Garrett , Yi Yang , Mingliang Xu , Yi-Dong Shen

We study the visual semantic embedding problem for image-text matching. Most existing work utilizes a tailored cross-attention mechanism to perform local alignment across the two image and text modalities. This is computationally expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Khoi Pham , Chuong Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

The joint understanding of vision and language has been recently gaining a lot of attention in both the Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing communities, with the emergence of tasks such as image captioning, image-text matching,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a task that segments image regions based on language expressions, requiring fine-grained alignment between two modalities. However, existing methods often struggle with multimodal misalignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Qianqi Lu , Yuxiang Xie , Jing Zhang , Shiwei Zou , Yan Chen , Xidao Luan

Given a textual phrase and an image, the visual grounding problem is the task of locating the content of the image referenced by the sentence. It is a challenging task that has several real-world applications in human-computer interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Davide Rigoni , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Sperduti

A major challenge in matching images and text is that they have intrinsically different data distributions and feature representations. Most existing approaches are based either on embedding or classification, the first one mapping image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tan Wang , Xing Xu , Yang Yang , Alan Hanjalic , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

Subject-driven text-to-image diffusion models empower users to tailor the model to new concepts absent in the pre-training dataset using a few sample images. However, prevalent subject-driven models primarily rely on single-concept input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Junjie Shentu , Matthew Watson , Noura Al Moubayed

Identifying robust and accurate correspondences across images is a fundamental problem in computer vision that enables various downstream tasks. Recent semi-dense matching methods emphasize the effectiveness of fusing relevant cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Yurun Tian , Xuyang Bai , Ziyu Wang , Lei Zhou , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

Visual relationship detection, as a challenging task used to find and distinguish the interactions between object pairs in one image, has received much attention recently. In this work, we propose a novel visual relationship detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Hao Zhou , Chongyang Zhang , Chuanping Hu

Generating images according to natural language descriptions is a challenging task. Prior research has mainly focused to enhance the quality of generation by investigating the use of spatial attention and/or textual attention thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Henning Schulze , Dogucan Yaman , Alexander Waibel

Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…

This paper considers the task of matching images and sentences by learning a visual-textual embedding space for cross-modal retrieval. Finding such a space is a challenging task since the features and representations of text and image are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hadi Abdi Khojasteh , Ebrahim Ansari , Parvin Razzaghi , Akbar Karimi