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We present a retrieval based system for landmark retrieval and recognition challenge.There are five parts in retrieval competition system, including feature extraction and matching to get candidates queue; database augmentation and query…

This paper presents the 1st place solution to the Google Landmark Retrieval 2020 Competition on Kaggle. The solution is based on metric learning to classify numerous landmark classes, and uses transfer learning with two train datasets,…

This paper presents the 2nd place solution to the Google Landmark Retrieval Competition 2020. We propose a training method of global feature model for landmark retrieval without post-processing, such as local feature and spatial…

As Transformer-based architectures have recently shown encouraging progresses in computer vision. In this work, we present the solution to the Google Landmark Recognition 2021 Challenge held on Kaggle, which is an improvement on our last…

In this paper, we describe our solution to the Google Landmark Recognition 2019 Challenge held on Kaggle. Due to the large number of classes, noisy data, imbalanced class sizes, and the presence of a significant amount of distractors in the…

In this paper, we show our solution to the Google Landmark Recognition 2021 Competition. Firstly, embeddings of images are extracted via various architectures (i.e. CNN-, Transformer- and hybrid-based), which are optimized by ArcFace loss.…

We present our solutions to the Google Landmark Challenges 2021, for both the retrieval and the recognition tracks. Both solutions are ensembles of transformers and ConvNet models based on Sub-center ArcFace with dynamic margins. Since the…

We propose an efficient pipeline for large-scale landmark image retrieval that addresses the diversity of the dataset through two-stage discriminative re-ranking. Our approach is based on embedding the images in a feature-space using a…

Image retrieval is a fundamental problem in computer vision. This paper presents our 3rd place detailed solution to the Google Landmark Retrieval 2020 challenge. We focus on the exploration of data cleaning and models with metric learning.…

Image representations are a critical building block of computer vision applications. This paper presents the 2nd place solution to the Google Universal Image Embedding Competition, which is part of the ECCV2022 instance-level recognition…

We present our third place solution to the Google Landmark Recognition 2020 competition. It is an ensemble of global features only Sub-center ArcFace models. We introduce dynamic margins for ArcFace loss, a family of tune-able margin…

In this paper, we present our solution, which placed 5th in the kaggle Google Universal Image Embedding Competition in 2022. We use the ViT-H visual encoder of CLIP from the openclip repository as a backbone and train a head model composed…

As a basic task of computer vision, image similarity retrieval is facing the challenge of large-scale data and image copy attacks. This paper presents our 3rd place solution to the matching track of Image Similarity Challenge (ISC) 2021…

For the past three years, Kaggle has been hosting the Image Matching Challenge, which focuses on solving a 3D image reconstruction problem using a collection of 2D images. Each year, this competition fosters the development of innovative…

This paper presents the 1st place solution for the Google Universal Images Embedding Competition on Kaggle. The highlighted part of our solution is based on 1) A novel way to conduct training and fine-tuning; 2) The idea of a better…

This article presents an efficient end-to-end method to perform instance-level recognition employed to the task of labeling and ranking landmark images. In a first step, we embed images in a high dimensional feature space using…

The Google-Landmarks-v2 dataset is the biggest worldwide landmarks dataset characterized by a large magnitude of noisiness and diversity. We present a novel landmark retrieval/recognition system, robust to a noisy and diverse dataset, by…

This paper presents the 6th place solution to the Google Universal Image Embedding competition on Kaggle. Our approach is based on the CLIP architecture, a powerful pre-trained model used to learn visual representation from natural language…

This paper introduces the 3rd place solution to the ICCV LargeFineFoodAI Retrieval Competition on Kaggle. Four basic models are independently trained with the weighted sum of ArcFace and Circle loss, then TTA and Ensemble are successively…

This technical report describes our 2nd-place solution for the ECCV 2022 YouTube-VIS Long Video Challenge. We adopt the previously proposed online video instance segmentation method IDOL for this challenge. In addition, we use pseudo labels…