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Artificial intelligence systems in critical fields like autonomous driving and medical imaging analysis often continually learn new tasks using a shared stream of input data. For instance, after learning to detect traffic signs, a model may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hanchen David Wang , Siwoo Bae , Zirong Chen , Meiyi Ma

As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

Text-driven person image generation is an emerging and challenging task in cross-modality image generation. Controllable person image generation promotes a wide range of applications such as digital human interaction and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Kaiduo Zhang , Muyi Sun , Jianxin Sun , Binghao Zhao , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan

We investigate the problem of multimodal search of target modality, where the task involves enhancing a query in a specific target modality by integrating information from auxiliary modalities. The goal is to retrieve relevant objects whose…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengzhao Wang , Xiangyu Ke , Xiaoliang Xu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Pinpin Huang , Runkai Zhu

Building cross-modal applications is challenging due to limited paired multi-modal data. Recent works have shown that leveraging a pre-trained multi-modal contrastive representation space enables cross-modal tasks to be learned from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yuhui Zhang , Elaine Sui , Serena Yeung-Levy

Visual perceptual tasks aim to predict human judgment of images (e.g., emotions invoked by images, image quality assessment). Unlike objective tasks such as object/scene recognition, perceptual tasks rely on subjective human assessments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Amit Zalcher , Navve Wasserman , Roman Beliy , Oliver Heinimann , Michal Irani

Image/video data is usually represented with multiple visual features. Fusion of multi-source information for establishing the attributes has been widely recognized. Multi-feature visual recognition has recently received much attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lei Zhang , David Zhang

Recent advancements in information retrieval have highlighted the potential of integrating visual and textual information, yet effective reranking for image-text documents remains challenging due to the modality gap and scarcity of aligned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hongyi Cai

Modality gap significantly restricts the effectiveness of multimodal fusion. Previous methods often use techniques such as diffusion models and adversarial learning to reduce the modality gap, but they typically focus on one-to-one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sijie Mai , Shiqin Han

Human Multimodal Language Understanding (MLU) aims to infer human intentions by integrating related cues from heterogeneous modalities. Existing works predominantly follow a ``learning to attend" paradigm, which maximizes mutual information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Menghua Jiang , Yuncheng Jiang , Haifeng Hu , Sijie Mai

Current vision-language retrieval aims to perform cross-modal instance search, in which the core idea is to learn the consistent visionlanguage representations. Although the performance of cross-modal retrieval has greatly improved with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yang Yang , Zhongtian Fu , Xiangyu Wu , Wenjie Li

Unsupervised visible-infrared person re-identification (USL-VI-ReID) aims to match pedestrian images of the same identity from different modalities without annotations. Existing works mainly focus on alleviating the modality gap by aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 De Cheng , Lingfeng He , Nannan Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xinbo Gao

Cross-modal retrieval aims to learn discriminative and modal-invariant features for data from different modalities. Unlike the existing methods which usually learn from the features extracted by offline networks, in this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Longlong Jing , Elahe Vahdani , Jiaxing Tan , Yingli Tian

In this work we introduce a cross modal image retrieval system that allows both text and sketch as input modalities for the query. A cross-modal deep network architecture is formulated to jointly model the sketch and text input modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Sounak Dey , Anjan Dutta , Suman K. Ghosh , Ernest Valveny , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

Multimodal learning has recently gained significant popularity, demonstrating impressive performance across various zero-shot classification tasks and a range of perceptive and generative applications. Models such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Can Yaras , Siyi Chen , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

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

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) stands as a pivotal technology addressing issues of data sparsity and cold start by transferring general knowledge from the source to the target domain. However, existing CDR models suffer limitations in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Bowen Hao , Chaoqun Yang , Lei Guo , Junliang Yu , Hongzhi Yin

Person re-identification aims to match a person's identity across multiple camera streams. Deep neural networks have been successfully applied to the challenging person re-identification task. One remarkable bottleneck is that the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Guodong Ding , Shanshan Zhang , Salman Khan , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang , Fatih Porikli

Although Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) exhibits strong performance across diverse vision tasks, its application to person representation learning faces two critical challenges: (i) the scarcity of large-scale annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tianlu Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Kaicheng Yang , Qichuan Ding

Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning across diverse modalities, large-scale multimodal data enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua