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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

We study the visual semantic embedding problem for image-text matching. Most existing work utilizes a tailored cross-attention mechanism to perform local alignment across the two image and text modalities. This is computationally expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Khoi Pham , Chuong Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

Despite the evolution of deep-learning-based visual-textual processing systems, precise multi-modal matching remains a challenging task. In this work, we tackle the task of cross-modal retrieval through image-sentence matching based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

With the novel and fast advances in the area of deep neural networks, several challenging image-based tasks have been recently approached by researchers in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this paper, we address one of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Jônatas Wehrmann , Anderson Mattjie , Rodrigo C. Barros

Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) aims to retrieve temporal segments in untrimmed videos corresponding to a given language query by constructing cross-modal alignment strategies. However, these existing strategies are often sub-optimal since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhihang Liu , Jun Li , Hongtao Xie , Pandeng Li , Jiannan Ge , Sun-Ao Liu , Guoqing Jin

In this paper, we focus on the problem of unsupervised image-sentence matching. Existing research explores to utilize document-level structural information to sample positive and negative instances for model training. Although the approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zejun Li , Zhongyu Wei , Zhihao Fan , Haijun Shan , Xuanjing Huang

Two modalities are often used to convey information in a complementary and beneficial manner, e.g., in online news, videos, educational resources, or scientific publications. The automatic understanding of semantic correlations between text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Christian Otto , Matthias Springstein , Avishek Anand , Ralph Ewerth

The abundance of multimodal data (e.g. social media posts) has inspired interest in cross-modal retrieval methods. Popular approaches rely on a variety of metric learning losses, which prescribe what the proximity of image and text should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

With the rapid development of multimodal learning, the image-text matching task, as a bridge connecting vision and language, has become increasingly important. Based on existing research, this study proposes an innovative visual semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Wenjing Chen

Vision-language fine-tuning has emerged as an efficient paradigm for constructing multimodal foundation models. While textual context often highlights semantic relationships within an image, existing fine-tuning methods typically overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiangyang Wu , Liu Liu , Baosheng Yu , Jiayan Qiu , Zhenwei Shi

Textual-visual cross-modal retrieval has been a hot research topic in both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Learning appropriate representations for multi-modal data is crucial for the cross-modal retrieval…

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Given a natural language expression and an image/video, the goal of referring segmentation is to produce the pixel-level masks of the entities described by the subject of the expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem by implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Si Liu , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Yunchao Wei , Bo Li , Guanbin Li

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…

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Accurate sarcopenia diagnosis via ultrasound remains challenging due to subtle imaging cues, limited labeled data, and the absence of clinical context in most models. We propose MedVQA-TREE, a multimodal framework that integrates a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Pardis Moradbeiki , Nasser Ghadiri , Sayed Jalal Zahabi , Uffe Kock Wiil , Kristoffer Kittelmann Brockhattingen , Ali Ebrahimi

Image-text matching plays a central role in bridging vision and language. Most existing approaches only rely on the image-text instance pair to learn their representations, thereby exploiting their matching relationships and making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Haoran Wang , Ying Zhang , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , Lin Ma

Numerous embedding models have been recently explored to incorporate semantic knowledge into visual recognition. Existing methods typically focus on minimizing the distance between the corresponding images and texts in the embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Dong Li , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Vision-language models encode images and text in a joint space, minimizing the distance between corresponding image and text pairs. How are language and images organized in this joint space, and how do the models encode meaning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Isabel Papadimitriou , Huangyuan Su , Thomas Fel , Sham Kakade , Stephanie Gil

Feature modeling of different modalities is a basic problem in current research of cross-modal information retrieval. Existing models typically project texts and images into one embedding space, in which semantically similar information…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jing Yu , Chenghao Yang , Zengchang Qin , Zhuoqian Yang , Yue Hu , Weifeng Zhang

Joint modeling of language and vision has been drawing increasing interest. A multimodal data representation allowing for bidirectional retrieval of images by sentences and vice versa is a key aspect. In this paper we present three…

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