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Matching images and sentences demands a fine understanding of both modalities. In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space. In this field, most existing works apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Michael Garrett , Yi Yang , Mingliang Xu , Yi-Dong Shen

Text-based person search (TBPS) is a problem that gained significant interest within the research community. The task is that of retrieving one or more images of a specific individual based on a textual description. The multi-modal nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Alex Ergasti , Tomaso Fontanini , Claudio Ferrari , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

We consider the problem of person search in unconstrained scene images. Existing methods usually focus on improving the person detection accuracy to mitigate negative effects imposed by misalignment, mis-detections, and false alarms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Xu Lan , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong

Learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings is an open problem in natural language processing. In this work, we propose a sentence embedding learning approach that exploits both visual and textual information via a multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Miaoran Zhang , Marius Mosbach , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

Person search by natural language aims at retrieving a specific person in a large-scale image pool that matches the given textual descriptions. While most of the current methods treat the task as a holistic visual and textual feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Zhe Wang , Zhiyuan Fang , Jun Wang , Yezhou Yang

Cross-Modal sponsored search displays multi-modal advertisements (ads) when consumers look for desired products by natural language queries in search engines. Since multi-modal ads bring complementary details for query-ads matching, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yuanmin Tang , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Yujing Wang , Yue Hu , Gang Xiong , Qi Wu

Text-to-image person retrieval aims to identify the target person based on a given textual description query. The primary challenge is to learn the mapping of visual and textual modalities into a common latent space. Prior works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ding Jiang , Mang Ye

In the realm of Text-Based Person Search (TBPS), mainstream methods aim to explore more efficient interaction frameworks between text descriptions and visual data. However, recent approaches encounter two principal challenges. Firstly, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Lei Tan , Weihao Li , Pingyang Dai , Jie Chen , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

In the last years, the consolidation of deep neural network architectures for information extraction in document images has brought big improvements in the performance of each of the tasks involved in this process, consisting of text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Manuel Carbonell , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas , Josep Lladós

Text-Based Person Search (TBPS) aims to retrieve pedestrian images from large galleries using natural language descriptions. This task, essential for public safety applications, is hindered by cross-modal discrepancies and ambiguous user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zequn Xie

This work proposes a multi-image matching method to estimate semantic correspondences across multiple images. In contrast to the previous methods that optimize all pairwise correspondences, the proposed method identifies and matches only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Qianqian Wang , Xiaowei Zhou , Kostas Daniilidis

Point tracking is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to establish point-wise correspondence across long video sequences. Recent advancements have primarily focused on temporal modeling techniques to improve local feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zikai Song , Ying Tang , Run Luo , Lintao Ma , Junqing Yu , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Wei Yang

Cross-modal person re-identification (Re-ID) is critical for modern video surveillance systems. The key challenge is to align cross-modality representations induced by the semantic information present for a person and ignore background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ammarah Farooq , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler , Syed Safwan Khalid

Fine-grained cross-modal alignment aims to establish precise local correspondences between vision and language, forming a cornerstone for visual question answering and related multimodal applications. Current approaches face challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xinyu Mao , Junsi Li , Haoji Zhang , Yu Liang , Ming Sun

Person re identification is a challenging retrieval task that requires matching a person's acquired image across non overlapping camera views. In this paper we propose an effective approach that incorporates both the fine and coarse pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Arne Schumann , Andreas Eberle , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Multimodal representation learning produces high-dimensional embeddings that align diverse modalities in a shared latent space. While this enables strong generalization, it also introduces scalability challenges, both in terms of storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eleonora Grassucci , Giordano Cicchetti , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

The relevance between a query and a document in search can be represented as matching degree between the two objects. Latent space models have been proven to be effective for the task, which are often trained with click-through data. One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Shuxin Wang , Xin Jiang , Hang Li , Jun Xu , Bin Wang

Deep neural networks trained for classification have been found to learn powerful image representations, which are also often used for other tasks such as comparing images w.r.t. their visual similarity. However, visual similarity does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Björn Barz , Joachim Denzler

Text-image cross-modal retrieval is a challenging task in the field of language and vision. Most previous approaches independently embed images and sentences into a joint embedding space and compare their similarities. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zihao Wang , Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang , Jing Shao

Text-based person search (TBPS) aims to retrieve specific images of individuals from large datasets using textual descriptions. Existing TBPS methods focus primarily on identifying explicit positive attributes, often neglecting the critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuchuan Deng , Zhanpeng Hu , Zijie Xin , Chuang Deng , Qijun Zhao