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Ongoing advancements in the fields of 3D modelling and digital archiving have led to an outburst in the amount of data stored digitally. Consequently, several retrieval systems have been developed depending on the type of data stored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Bharadwaj Manda , Shubham Dhayarkar , Sai Mitheran , V. K. Viekash , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

Image-text retrieval is one of the major tasks of cross-modal retrieval. Several approaches for this task map images and texts into a common space to create correspondences between the two modalities. However, due to the content (semantics)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Xu Zhang , Xinzheng Niu , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Xudong Dai

A concept may reflect either a concrete or abstract idea. Given an input image, this paper seeks to retrieve other images that share its central concepts, capturing aspects of the underlying narrative. This goes beyond conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ori Nizan , Oren Shrout , Ayellet Tal

Content based video retrieval is an approach for facilitating the searching and browsing of large image collections over World Wide Web. In this approach, video analysis is conducted on low level visual properties extracted from video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-11-21 B. V. Patel , B. B. Meshram

We introduce and address the problem of ad hoc table retrieval: answering a keyword query with a ranked list of tables. This task is not only interesting on its own account, but is also being used as a core component in many other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

We present a simple and efficient method based on deep learning to automatically decompose sketched objects into semantically valid parts. We train a deep neural network to transfer existing segmentations and labelings from 3D models to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Lei Li , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

Often, videos are composed of multiple concepts or even genres. For instance, news videos may contain sports, action, nature, etc. Therefore, encoding the distribution of such concepts/genres in a compact and effective representation is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Leonardo A. Duarte , Otávio A. B. Penatti , Jurandy Almeida

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

We propose a deep hashing framework for sketch retrieval that, for the first time, works on a multi-million scale human sketch dataset. Leveraging on this large dataset, we explore a few sketch-specific traits that were otherwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Peng Xu , Yongye Huang , Tongtong Yuan , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

We give a simple, low resource method to produce order embeddings from ontologies. Such embeddings map words to vectors so that order relations on the words, such as hypernymy/hyponymy, are represented in a direct way. Our method uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Sanjana Sahayaraj

Vector databases typically rely on approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search to retrieve the top-k closest vectors to a query in embedding space. While effective, this approach often yields semantically redundant results, missing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is an emerging task in computer vision, allowing to retrieve natural images relevant to sketch queries that might not been seen in the training phase. Existing works either require aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Anjan Dutta , Zeynep Akata

Retrieving relevant plots from the book for a query is a critical task, which can improve the reading experience and efficiency of readers. Readers usually only give an abstract and vague description as the query based on their own…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Shicheng Xu , Liang Pang , Jiangnan Li , Mo Yu , Fandong Meng , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Jie Zhou

In this paper, we present a framework that jointly retrieves and spatiotemporally highlights actions in videos by enhancing current deep cross-modal retrieval methods. Our work takes on the novel task of action highlighting, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Seito Kasai , Yuchi Ishikawa , Masaki Hayashi , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Kensho Hara , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Visual media has always been the most enjoyed way of communication. From the advent of television to the modern day hand held computers, we have witnessed the exponential growth of images around us. Undoubtedly it's a fact that they carry a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Jamil Ahmad , Muhammad Sajjad , Irfan Mehmood , Seungmin Rho , Sung Wook Baik

Scientific paper retrieval is essential for supporting literature discovery and research. While dense retrieval methods demonstrate effectiveness in general-purpose tasks, they often fail to capture fine-grained scientific concepts that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yunyi Zhang , Ruozhen Yang , Siqi Jiao , SeongKu Kang , Jiawei Han

We present in this paper an intelligent video data visualization tool, based on semantic classification, for retrieving and exploring a large scale corpus of videos. Our work is based on semantic classification resulting from semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Jamel Slimi , Anis Ben Ammar , Adel M. Alimi

The rapid progress in diffusion models, transformers, and language agents has unlocked new possibilities, yet their potential in user interfaces and commercial applications remains underexplored. We present Sketch-Search Agent, a novel…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Edward Sun

Textual information found in scene images provides high level semantic information about the image and its context and it can be leveraged for better scene understanding. In this paper we address the problem of scene text retrieval: given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Lluís Gómez , Andrés Mafla , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas

In this paper, we address the task of natural language object retrieval, to localize a target object within a given image based on a natural language query of the object. Natural language object retrieval differs from text-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Ronghang Hu , Huazhe Xu , Marcus Rohrbach , Jiashi Feng , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell