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We present an unsupervised approach for discovering semantic representations of mathematical equations. Equations are challenging to analyze because each is unique, or nearly unique. Our method, which we call equation embeddings, finds good…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Kriste Krstovski , David M. Blei

In the Bag-of-Words (BoW) model based image retrieval task, the precision of visual matching plays a critical role in improving retrieval performance. Conventionally, local cues of a keypoint are employed. However, such strategy does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Liang Zheng , Shengjin Wang , Fei He , Qi Tian

Efficient similarity retrieval from large-scale multimodal database is pervasive in modern search engines and social networks. To support queries across content modalities, the system should enable cross-modal correlation and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Mingsheng Long , Yue Cao , Jianmin Wang , Philip S. Yu

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

While internet-scale data often comes in pairs (e.g., audio/image, image/text), we often want to perform inferences over modalities unseen together in the training data (e.g., audio/text). Empirically, this can often be addressed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yongwei Che , Benjamin Eysenbach

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

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Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

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We present a method for finding cross-modal space-time correspondences. Given two images from different visual modalities, such as an RGB image and a depth map, our model identifies which pairs of pixels correspond to the same physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ayush Shrivastava , Andrew Owens

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) learn joint representations by mapping images and text into a shared latent space. However, recent research highlights that deterministic embeddings from standard VLMs often struggle to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aishwarya Venkataramanan , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

In this paper, we study the cross-modal image retrieval, where the inputs contain a source image plus some text that describes certain modifications to this image and the desired image. Prior work usually uses a three-stage strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chunbin Gu , Jiajun Bu , Xixi Zhou , Chengwei Yao , Dongfang Ma , Zhi Yu , Xifeng Yan

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…

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Grounding referring expressions in images aims to locate the object instance in an image described by a referring expression. It involves a joint understanding of natural language and image content, and is essential for a range of visual…

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Word embeddings -- distributed representations of words -- in deep learning are beneficial for many tasks in natural language processing (NLP). However, different embedding sets vary greatly in quality and characteristics of the captured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Wenpeng Yin , Hinrich Schütze

Medical image captioning automatically generates a medical description to describe the content of a given medical image. A traditional medical image captioning model creates a medical description only based on a single medical image input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Jia-Hong Huang , Ting-Wei Wu , Marcel Worring

Existing approaches for image-to-recipe retrieval have the implicit assumption that a food image can fully capture the details textually documented in its recipe. However, a food image only reflects the visual outcome of a cooked dish and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Qing Wang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Yu Cao , Ee-Peng Lim

In this work we formulate the problem of image captioning as a multimodal translation task. Analogous to machine translation, we present a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural networks (RNN) model for image caption generation. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Chang Liu , Fuchun Sun , Changhu Wang , Feng Wang , Alan Yuille

Image captioning, an important vision-language task, often requires a tremendous number of finely labeled image-caption pairs for learning the underlying alignment between images and texts. In this paper, we proposed a multimodal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Changrong Xiao , Sean Xin Xu , Kunpeng Zhang

The increasing amount of online videos brings several opportunities for training self-supervised neural networks. The creation of large scale datasets of videos such as the YouTube-8M allows us to deal with this large amount of data in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Didac Surís , Amanda Duarte , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto