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Our objective is video retrieval based on natural language queries. In addition, we consider the analogous problem of retrieving sentences or generating descriptions given an input video. Recent work has addressed the problem by embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä , Naokazu Yokoya

Prevalent text-to-video retrieval systems mainly adopt embedding models for feature extraction and compute cosine similarities for ranking. However, this design presents two limitations. Low-quality text-video data pairs could compromise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi , Jiamian Wang , Majid Rabbani , Sohail Dianat , Raghuveer Rao , Zhiqiang Tao

This paper focuses on enhancing the captions generated by image-caption generation systems. We propose an approach for improving caption generation systems by choosing the most closely related output to the image rather than the most likely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ahmed Sabir

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

The explosive growth of video streaming presents challenges in achieving high accuracy and low training costs for video-language retrieval. However, existing methods rely on large-scale pre-training to improve video retrieval performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Haoyu Zhao , Jiaxi Gu , Shicong Wang , Xing Zhang , Hang Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video captioning is the process of describing the content of a sequence of images capturing its semantic relationships and meanings. Dealing with this task with a single image is arduous, not to mention how difficult it is for a video (or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Daniela Moctezuma , Tania Ramírez-delReal , Guillermo Ruiz , Othón González-Chávez

Motivated by the increasing need of saving search effort by obtaining relevant video clips instead of whole videos, we propose a new task, named Semantic Video Moments Retrieval at scale (SVMR), which aims at finding relevant videos coupled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Na Li

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

Document retrieval has been an important research problem over many years in the information retrieval community. State-of-the-art techniques utilize various methods in matching documents to a given document including keywords, phrases, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Kalpa Gunaratna

In this report, we present our approach for EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Multi-Instance Retrieval Challenge 2022. We first parse sentences into semantic roles corresponding to verbs and nouns; then utilize self-attentions to exploit semantic role…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Burak Satar , Hongyuan Zhu , Hanwang Zhang , Joo Hwee Lim

In current text-to-video retrieval (T2VR), videos to be retrieved have been properly trimmed so that a correspondence between the videos and ad-hoc textual queries naturally exists. Note in practice that videos circulated on the Internet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xianke Chen , Daizong Liu , Xun Yang , Xirong Li , Jianfeng Dong , Meng Wang , Xun Wang

The majority of Semantic Web search engines retrieve information by focusing on the use of concepts and relations restricted to the query provided by the user. By trying to guess the implicit meaning between these concepts and relations,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Manuel Rojas

Most existing text-video retrieval methods focus on cross-modal matching between the visual content of videos and textual query sentences. However, in real-world scenarios, online videos are often accompanied by relevant text information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Wenhao Wu , Haipeng Luo , Bo Fang , Jingdong Wang , Wanli Ouyang

Reranking is a critical component of modern retrieval systems, which typically pair an efficient first-stage retriever with a more expressive model to refine results. While large reasoning models have driven rapid progress in text-centric…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tyler Skow , Alexander Martin , Benjamin Van Durme , Rama Chellappa , Reno Kriz

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

A major challenge in text-video and text-audio retrieval is the lack of large-scale training data. This is unlike image-captioning, where datasets are in the order of millions of samples. To close this gap we propose a new video mining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Arsha Nagrani , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Bryan Seybold , Anja Hauth , Santiago Manen , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Lexical and semantic matches are commonly used as relevance measurements for information retrieval. Together they estimate the semantic equivalence between the query and the candidates. However, semantic equivalence is not the only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Fan Luo , Mihai Surdeanu

In this paper we undertake the task of text-based video moment retrieval from a corpus of videos. To train the model, text-moment paired datasets were used to learn the correct correspondences. In typical training methods, ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sho Maeoki , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Many methods have been developed to help people find the video contents they want efficiently. However, there are still some unsolved problems in this area. For example, given a query video and a reference video, how to accurately localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jiebo Luo

Retrieval of live, user-broadcast video streams is an under-addressed and increasingly relevant challenge. The on-line nature of the problem requires temporal evaluation and the unforeseeable scope of potential queries motivates an approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Spencer Cappallo , Thomas Mensink , Cees G. M. Snoek