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Despite the success of vision-language models in various generative tasks, obtaining high-quality semantic representations for products and user intents is still challenging due to the inability of off-the-shelf models to capture nuanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Omkar Gurjar , Kin Sum Liu , Praveen Kolli , Utsaw Kumar , Mandar Rahurkar

A cross-modal retrieval process is to use a query in one modality to obtain relevant data in another modality. The challenging issue of cross-modal retrieval lies in bridging the heterogeneous gap for similarity computation, which has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Donghuo Zeng

In contrast to conventional visual question answering, video-grounded dialog necessitates a profound understanding of both dialog history and video content for accurate response generation. Despite commendable progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Yisen Feng , Yaowei Wang , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

Retrieving target videos based on text descriptions is a task of great practical value and has received increasing attention over the past few years. Despite recent progress, imperfect annotations in existing video retrieval datasets have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Zeyu Wang , Yu Wu , Karthik Narasimhan , Olga Russakovsky

Cross-lingual cross-modal retrieval (CCR) aims to retrieve visually relevant content based on non-English queries, without relying on human-labeled cross-modal data pairs during training. One popular approach involves utilizing machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yabing Wang , Le Wang , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

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

Retrieving relevant instructional videos from multilingual medical archives is crucial for answering complex, multi-hop questions across language boundaries. However, existing systems either compress hour-long videos into coarse embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yu Wang , Tianhao Tan , Yifei Wang

Video retrieval requires aligning visual content with corresponding natural language descriptions. In this paper, we introduce Modality Auxiliary Concepts for Video Retrieval (MAC-VR), a novel approach that leverages modality-specific tags…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Adriano Fragomeni , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Automatically describing video content with natural language is a fundamental challenge of multimedia. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), which models sequence dynamics, has attracted increasing attention on visual interpretation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei , Ting Yao , Houqiang Li , Yong Rui

Long-form video understanding is complicated by the high redundancy of video data and the abundance of query-irrelevant information. To tackle these challenges, we propose VideoTree, a training-free framework which builds a query-adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ziyang Wang , Shoubin Yu , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Jaehong Yoon , Feng Cheng , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal

We address the problem of cross-modal fine-grained action retrieval between text and video. Cross-modal retrieval is commonly achieved through learning a shared embedding space, that can indifferently embed modalities. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Michael Wray , Diane Larlus , Gabriela Csurka , Dima Damen

Semantic code search is about finding semantically relevant code snippets for a given natural language query. In the state-of-the-art approaches, the semantic similarity between code and query is quantified as the distance of their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Jian Gu , Zimin Chen , Martin Monperrus

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code snippet given a natural language query. Different from typical information retrieval tasks, code search requires to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Chen Wu , Ming Yan

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Visual Language Model (REVEAL) that learns to encode world knowledge into a large-scale memory, and to retrieve from it to answer knowledge-intensive queries. REVEAL consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ziniu Hu , Ahmet Iscen , Chen Sun , Zirui Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun , Cordelia Schmid , David A. Ross , Alireza Fathi

Recent advances in using retrieval components over external knowledge sources have shown impressive results for a variety of downstream tasks in natural language processing. Here, we explore the use of unstructured external knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Shir Gur , Natalia Neverova , Chris Stauffer , Ser-Nam Lim , Douwe Kiela , Austin Reiter

We present Omni-Embed-Nemotron, a unified multimodal retrieval embedding model developed to handle the increasing complexity of real-world information needs. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly advanced language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mengyao Xu , Wenfei Zhou , Yauhen Babakhin , Gabriel Moreira , Ronay Ak , Radek Osmulski , Bo Liu , Even Oldridge , Benedikt Schifferer

We present a method for matching a text sentence from a given corpus to a given video clip and vice versa. Traditionally video and text matching is done by learning a shared embedding space and the encoding of one modality is independent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ameen Ali , Idan Schwartz , Tamir Hazan , Lior Wolf

Current text-video retrieval methods mainly rely on cross-modal matching between queries and videos to calculate their similarity scores, which are then sorted to obtain retrieval results. This method considers the matching between each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yili Li , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Bang Liu , Gang Xiong , Qi Wu

Multimodal encoders have pushed the boundaries of visual document retrieval, matching textual query tokens directly to image patches and achieving state-of-the-art performance on public benchmarks. Recent models relying on this paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Omri Uzan , Asaf Yehudai , Roi pony , Eyal Shnarch , Ariel Gera