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Vision-language retrieval is an important multi-modal learning topic, where the goal is to retrieve the most relevant visual candidate for a given text query. Recently, pre-trained models, e.g., CLIP, show great potential on retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haojun Jiang , Jianke Zhang , Rui Huang , Chunjiang Ge , Zanlin Ni , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

In this paper, we present a method for enhancing the accuracy of scene text recognition tasks by judging whether the image and text match each other. While previous studies focused on generating the recognition results from input images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Masato Fujitake

Image-text retrieval, as a fundamental and important branch of information retrieval, has attracted extensive research attentions. The main challenge of this task is cross-modal semantic understanding and matching. Some recent works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Weijing Chen , Linli Yao , Qin Jin

Event-based image retrieval from free-form captions presents a significant challenge: models must understand not only visual features but also latent event semantics, context, and real-world knowledge. Conventional vision-language retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dinh-Khoi Vo , Van-Loc Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

Multi-modal reasoning plays a vital role in bridging the gap between textual and visual information, enabling a deeper understanding of the context. This paper presents the Feature Swapping Multi-modal Reasoning (FSMR) model, designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shuang Li , Jiahua Wang , Lijie Wen

Understanding a visual scene incorporates objects, relationships, and context. Traditional methods working on an image mostly focus on object detection and fail to capture the relationship between the objects. Relationships can give rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Himangi Mittal , Ajith Abraham , Anuja Arora

Image captioning models tend to describe images in an object-centric way, emphasising visible objects. But image descriptions can also abstract away from objects and describe the type of scene depicted. In this paper, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Michele Cafagna , Kees van Deemter , Albert Gatt

We introduce a new multi-modal task for computer systems, posed as a combined vision-language comprehension challenge: identifying the most suitable text describing a scene, given several similar options. Accomplishing the task entails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Nan Ding , Sebastian Goodman , Fei Sha , Radu Soricut

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

In text-video retrieval, recent works have benefited from the powerful learning capabilities of pre-trained text-image foundation models (e.g., CLIP) by adapting them to the video domain. A critical problem for them is how to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Chaorui Deng , Qi Chen , Pengda Qin , Da Chen , Qi Wu

In recent years, cross-modal retrieval has drawn much attention due to the rapid growth of multimodal data. It takes one type of data as the query to retrieve relevant data of another type. For example, a user can use a text to retrieve…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Kaiye Wang , Qiyue Yin , Wei Wang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Modeling semantic information is helpful for scene text recognition. In this work, we propose to model semantic and visual information jointly with a Visual-Semantic Transformer (VST). The VST first explicitly extracts primary semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xin Tang , Yongquan Lai , Ying Liu , Yuanyuan Fu , Rui Fang

Representing the semantics of words is a long-standing problem for the natural language processing community. Most methods compute word semantics given their textual context in large corpora. More recently, researchers attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Éloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

Current state-of-the-art approaches to cross-modal retrieval process text and visual input jointly, relying on Transformer-based architectures with cross-attention mechanisms that attend over all words and objects in an image. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gregor Geigle , Jonas Pfeiffer , Nils Reimers , Ivan Vulić , Iryna Gurevych

Text-based person retrieval aims to identify a target individual from an image gallery using a natural language description. Existing methods primarily focus on appearance-driven cross-modal retrieval, yet face significant challenges due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yingjia Xu , Jinlin Wu , Daming Gao , Zhen Chen , Yang Yang , Min Cao , Mang Ye , Zhen Lei

The cross-modal 3D retrieval task aims to achieve mutual matching between text descriptions and 3D shapes. This has the potential to enhance the interaction between natural language and the 3D environment, especially within the realms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Junlong Ren , Hao Wu , Hui Xiong , Hao Wang

Understanding dark scenes based on multi-modal image data is challenging, as both the visible and auxiliary modalities provide limited semantic information for the task. Previous methods focus on fusing the two modalities but neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaoyu Dong , Naoto Yokoya

Cross-modal retrieval has drawn much attention in both computer vision and natural language processing domains. With the development of convolutional and recurrent neural networks, the bottleneck of retrieval across image-text modalities is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Jianan Chen , Lu Zhang , Qiong Wang , Cong Bai , Kidiyo Kpalma

Scene text image contains two levels of contents: visual texture and semantic information. Although the previous scene text recognition methods have made great progress over the past few years, the research on mining semantic information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Deli Yu , Xuan Li , Chengquan Zhang , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding

Cross-modal retrieval has become popular in recent years, particularly with the rise of multimedia. Generally, the information from each modality exhibits distinct representations and semantic information, which makes feature tends to be in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zichen Yuan , Qi Shen , Bingyi Zheng , Yuting Liu , Linying Jiang , Guibing Guo