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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…

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…

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…

This paper presents the 3rd place solution to the Google Universal Image Embedding Competition on Kaggle. We use ViT-H/14 from OpenCLIP for the backbone of ArcFace, and trained in 2 stage. 1st stage is done with freezed backbone, and 2nd…

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.…

The Google Universal Image Embedding (GUIE) Challenge is one of the first competitions in multi-domain image representations in the wild, covering a wide distribution of objects: landmarks, artwork, food, etc. This is a fundamental computer…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Modern image retrieval methods typically rely on fine-tuning pre-trained encoders to extract image-level descriptors. However, the most widely used models are pre-trained on ImageNet-1K with limited classes. The pre-trained feature…

Image-text contrastive learning models such as CLIP have demonstrated strong task transfer ability. The high generality and usability of these visual models is achieved via a web-scale data collection process to ensure broad concept…

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.…

This paper presents the 2nd place solution to the Google Landmark Retrieval 2021 Competition on Kaggle. The solution is based on a baseline with training tricks from person re-identification, a continent-aware sampling strategy is presented…

The recent success of the CLIP model has shown its potential to be applied to a wide range of vision and language tasks. However this only establishes embedding space relationship of language to images, not to the video domain. In this…

Contrastive Language and Image Pairing (CLIP), a transformative method in multimedia retrieval, typically trains two neural networks concurrently to generate joint embeddings for text and image pairs. However, when applied directly, these…

In this paper, we address the problem of global-scale image geolocation, proposing a mixed classification-retrieval scheme. Unlike other methods that strictly tackle the problem as a classification or retrieval task, we combine the two…

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Recently, vision-language models like CLIP have advanced the state of the art in a variety of multi-modal tasks including image captioning and caption evaluation. Many approaches leverage CLIP for cross-modal retrieval to condition…

One of the main issues related to unsupervised machine learning is the cost of processing and extracting useful information from large datasets. In this work, we propose a classifier ensemble based on the transferable learning capabilities…