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Fine-grained image-text alignment is a pivotal challenge in multimodal learning, underpinning key applications such as visual question answering, image captioning, and vision-language navigation. Unlike global alignment, fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiale Liu , Haoming Zhou , Yishu Liu , Bingzhi Chen , Yuncheng Jiang

With the rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) generation models, assessing the semantic alignment between generated images and text descriptions has become a significant research challenge. Current methods, including those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xinli Yue , JianHui Sun , Junda Lu , Liangchao Yao , Fan Xia , Tianyi Wang , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Yuetang Deng

Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims at matching images of the same person across disjoint camera views, which is a challenging problem in multimedia analysis, multimedia editing and content-based media retrieval communities. The major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang , Rui Shi , Qiqi Hou , Yihong Gong , Nanning Zheng

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

Matching information across image and text modalities is a fundamental challenge for many applications that involve both vision and natural language processing. The objective is to find efficient similarity metrics to compare the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Li Ren , Kai Li , LiQiang Wang , Kien Hua

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in multi-image cross-modal retrieval, yet suffer from severe position bias, where predictions are dominated by input order rather than semantic relevance. Through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mingtao Xian , Yifeng Yang , Qinying Gu , Xinbing Wang , Nanyang Ye

Current image-text retrieval methods have demonstrated impressive performance in recent years. However, they still face two problems: the inter-modal matching missing problem and the intra-modal semantic loss problem. These problems can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hailang Huang , Zhijie Nie , Ziqiao Wang , Ziyu Shang

Composed image retrieval, a task involving the search for a target image using a reference image and a complementary text as the query, has witnessed significant advancements owing to the progress made in cross-modal modeling. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xintong Jiang , Yaxiong Wang , Yujiao Wu , Meng Wang , Xueming Qian

Image-text matching (ITM) is a fundamental problem in computer vision. The key issue lies in jointly learning the visual and textual representation to estimate their similarity accurately. Most existing methods focus on feature enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xuri Ge , Fuhai Chen , Songpei Xu , Fuxiang Tao , Jie Wang , Joemon M. Jose

Image-text retrieval is a widely studied topic in the field of computer vision due to the exponential growth of multimedia data, whose core concept is to measure the similarity between images and text. However, most existing retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yang Zhang

Visible-Infrared person Re-IDentification (VI-ReID) is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task that aims to match pedestrians' images across visible and infrared cameras. To solve the modality gap, existing mainstream methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Wu Liu , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Yidong Li

We address the problem of visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-reID), that is, retrieving a set of person images, captured by visible or infrared cameras, in a cross-modal setting. Two main challenges in VI-reID are intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Hyunjong Park , Sanghoon Lee , Junghyup Lee , Bumsub Ham

Multimodal retrieval systems are becoming increasingly vital for cutting-edge AI technologies, such as embodied AI and AI-driven digital content industries. However, current multimodal retrieval tasks lack sufficient complexity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Bangwei Liu , Yicheng Bao , Shaohui Lin , Xuhong Wang , Xin Tan , Yingchun Wang , Yuan Xie , Chaochao Lu

Exploring fine-grained relationship between entities(e.g. objects in image or words in sentence) has great contribution to understand multimedia content precisely. Previous attention mechanism employed in image-text matching either takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Yaxian Xia , Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Xiaoyong Wei , Wenmin Wang

This paper proposes an introspective deep metric learning (IDML) framework for uncertainty-aware comparisons of images. Conventional deep metric learning methods produce confident semantic distances between images regardless of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wenzhao Zheng , Chengkun Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The cross-media retrieval problem has received much attention in recent years due to the rapid increasing of multimedia data on the Internet. A new approach to the problem has been raised which intends to match features of different…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Cuicui Kang , Shengcai Liao , Yonghao He , Jian Wang , Wenjia Niu , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Foundation models have demonstrated remarkable performance across modalities such as language and vision. However, model reuse across distinct modalities (e.g., text and vision) remains limited due to the difficulty of aligning internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ali Gholamzadeh , Noor Sajid

Multi-modal data is becoming more common in big data background. Finding the semantically similar objects from different modality is one of the heart problems of multi-modal learning. Most of the current methods try to learn the inter-modal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Qibin Zheng , Xingchun Diao , Jianjun Cao , Xiaolei Zhou , Yi Liu , Hongmei Li

Description-based person re-identification (Re-id) is an important task in video surveillance that requires discriminative cross-modal representations to distinguish different people. It is difficult to directly measure the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Kai Niu , Yan Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Liang Wang

The potential of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (mAI) to replicate human grounded language understanding, including the pragmatic, context-rich aspects of communication, remains to be clarified. Humans are known to use…