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Information Retrieval (IR) is the task of obtaining pieces of data (such as documents or snippets of text) that are relevant to a particular query or need from a large repository of information. While a combination of traditional keyword-…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Samarth Rawal , Chitta Baral

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jie Guo , Meiting Wang , Yan Zhou , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Wei Fan , Jianglong Chang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search an image of interest using a combination of a reference image and modification text as the query. Despite recent advancements, this task remains challenging due to limited training data and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yinan Zhou , Yaxiong Wang , Haokun Lin , Chen Ma , Li Zhu , Zhedong Zheng

Cross-modal retrieval is gaining increasing efficacy and interest from the research community, thanks to large-scale training, novel architectural and learning designs, and its application in LLMs and multimodal LLMs. In this paper, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Davide Caffagni , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Current state-of-the-art approaches to cross-modal retrieval process text and visual input jointly, relying on Transformer-based architectures with cross-attention mechanisms that attend over all words and objects in an image. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gregor Geigle , Jonas Pfeiffer , Nils Reimers , Ivan Vulić , Iryna Gurevych

Video-Text Retrieval has been a hot research topic with the growth of multimedia data on the internet. Transformer for video-text learning has attracted increasing attention due to its promising performance. However, existing cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Song Liu , Haoqi Fan , Shengsheng Qian , Yiru Chen , Wenkui Ding , Zhongyuan Wang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

Audio carries richer information than text, including emotion, speaker traits, and environmental context, while also enabling lower-latency processing compared to speech-to-text pipelines. However, recent multimodal information retrieval…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Tong Zhao , Chenghao Zhang , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Weijing Chen , Linli Yao , Qin Jin

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

Image retrieval remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision. While recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, existing methods typically employ them only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shangrong Wu , Yanghong Zhou , Yang Chen , Feng Zhang , P. Y. Mok

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance the quality and relevance of responses generated by large language models. While recent advancements have mainly focused on improving RAG for text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ainulla Khan , Yamada Moyuru , Srinidhi Akella

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves target images using a multi-modal query that combines a reference image with text describing desired modifications. The primary challenge is effectively fusing this visual and textual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Chaoyang Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Long Teng , Zijun Li , Shichao Kan

Most existing audio-text retrieval (ATR) methods focus on constructing contrastive pairs between whole audio clips and complete caption sentences, while ignoring fine-grained cross-modal relationships, e.g., short segments and phrases or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yifei Xin , Yuexian Zou

In this paper, we present TMR, a simple yet effective approach for text to 3D human motion retrieval. While previous work has only treated retrieval as a proxy evaluation metric, we tackle it as a standalone task. Our method extends the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Mathis Petrovich , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol

Image-text retrieval is a central problem for understanding the semantic relationship between vision and language, and serves as the basis for various visual and language tasks. Most previous works either simply learn coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chong Liu , Yuqi Zhang , Hongsong Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Yan Huang , Yi-Dong Shen , Liang Wang

The goal of Text-to-Image Person Retrieval (TIPR) is to retrieve specific person images according to the given textual descriptions. A primary challenge in this task is bridging the substantial representational gap between visual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Delong Liu , Haiwen Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Yuan Dong

Image-based retrieval in large Earth observation archives is challenging because one needs to navigate across thousands of candidate matches only with the query image as a guide. By using text as information supporting the visual query, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Li Mi , Xianjie Dai , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia

Current multimodal information retrieval studies mainly focus on single-image inputs, which limits real-world applications involving multiple images and text-image interleaved content. In this work, we introduce the text-image interleaved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xin Zhang , Ziqi Dai , Yongqi Li , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang , Jun Yu , Wenjie Li , Min Zhang

While generative modeling has become prevalent across numerous research fields, its integration into the realm of image retrieval remains largely unexplored and underjustified. In this paper, we present a novel methodology, reframing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yidan Zhang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Yujing Wang , Qi Chen , Xing Xie , Hao Sun , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jingdong Wang , Baining Guo