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How humans can effectively and efficiently acquire images has always been a perennial question. A classic solution is text-to-image retrieval from an existing database; however, the limited database typically lacks creativity. By contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Leigang Qu , Haochuan Li , Tan Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Image-text matching is an interesting and fascinating task in modern AI research. Despite the evolution of deep-learning-based image and text processing systems, multi-modal matching remains a challenging problem. In this work, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Nicola Messina , Fabrizio Falchi , Andrea Esuli , Giuseppe Amato

Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image from a gallery using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modification text. Among various CIR approaches, training-free zero-shot methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jeong-Woo Park , Seong-Whan Lee

Most approaches to cross-modal retrieval (CMR) focus either on object-centric datasets, meaning that each document depicts or describes a single object, or on scene-centric datasets, meaning that each image depicts or describes a complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mariya Hendriksen , Svitlana Vakulenko , Ernst Kuiper , Maarten de Rijke

With the rapid proliferation of multimodal information, Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) has emerged as a critical frontier in bridging the gap between unstructured visually rich data and precise information acquisition. Unlike traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yibo Yan , Jiahao Huo , Guanbo Feng , Mingdong Ou , Yi Cao , Xin Zou , Shuliang Liu , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Yu Huang , Jungang Li , Kening Zheng , Xu Zheng , Philip S. Yu , James Kwok , Xuming Hu

Reranking is a critical stage in contemporary information retrieval (IR) systems, improving the relevance of the user-presented final results by honing initial candidate sets. This paper is a thorough guide to examine the changing reranker…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Tejul Pandit , Sakshi Mahendru , Meet Raval , Dhvani Upadhyay

Detection and recognition of text in natural images are two main problems in the field of computer vision that have a wide variety of applications in analysis of sports videos, autonomous driving, industrial automation, to name a few. They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zobeir Raisi , Mohamed A. Naiel , Paul Fieguth , Steven Wardell , John Zelek

This paper presents the AToMiC (Authoring Tools for Multimedia Content) dataset, designed to advance research in image/text cross-modal retrieval. While vision-language pretrained transformers have led to significant improvements in…

In recent years, cross-modal reasoning (CMR), the process of understanding and reasoning across different modalities, has emerged as a pivotal area with applications spanning from multimedia analysis to healthcare diagnostics. As the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Dizhan Xue , Shengsheng Qian , Zuyi Zhou , Changsheng Xu

Visual media has always been the most enjoyed way of communication. From the advent of television to the modern day hand held computers, we have witnessed the exponential growth of images around us. Undoubtedly it's a fact that they carry a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Jamil Ahmad , Muhammad Sajjad , Irfan Mehmood , Seungmin Rho , Sung Wook Baik

The goal of text ranking is to generate an ordered list of texts retrieved from a corpus in response to a query. Although the most common formulation of text ranking is search, instances of the task can also be found in many natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jimmy Lin , Rodrigo Nogueira , Andrew Yates

The recent emergence of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has introduced a new dimension to the Text-rich Image Understanding (TIU) field, with models demonstrating impressive and inspiring performance. However, their rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Pei Fu , Tongkun Guan , Zining Wang , Zhentao Guo , Chen Duan , Hao Sun , Boming Chen , Jiayao Ma , Qianyi Jiang , Kai Zhou , Junfeng Luo

With the rapid advancement of multimodal retrieval and its application in LLMs and multimodal LLMs, increasingly complex retrieval tasks have emerged. Existing methods predominantly rely on task-specific fine-tuning of vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Davide Caffagni , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

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

Reading text from natural images is challenging due to the great variety in text font, color, size, complex background and etc.. The perspective distortion and non-linear spatial arrangement of characters make it further difficult. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Shangbang Long , Yushuo Guan , Bingxuan Wang , Kaigui Bian , Cong Yao

Multimodal relation extraction (MRE) is the task of identifying the semantic relationships between two entities based on the context of the sentence image pair. Existing retrieval-augmented approaches mainly focused on modeling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Xuming Hu , Zhijiang Guo , Zhiyang Teng , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

Most existing audio-text retrieval (ATR) approaches typically rely on a single-level interaction to associate audio and text, limiting their ability to align different modalities and leading to suboptimal matches. In this work, we present a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yifei Xin , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Xusheng Yang , Yuexian Zou

Our objective is language-based search of large-scale image and video datasets. For this task, the approach that consists of independently mapping text and vision to a joint embedding space, a.k.a. dual encoders, is attractive as retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Antoine Miech , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Andrew Zisserman

Multi-modal 3D scene understanding has gained considerable attention due to its wide applications in many areas, such as autonomous driving and human-computer interaction. Compared to conventional single-modal 3D understanding, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yinjie Lei , Zixuan Wang , Feng Chen , Guoqing Wang , Peng Wang , Yang Yang