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Spurious correlations in real-world datasets cause machine learning models to rely on irrelevant patterns, undermining reliability, generalization, and fairness. Active learning offers a promising way to address this failure mode by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kin Whye Chew , Jingxian Wang

Image retrieval with hybrid-modality queries, also known as composing text and image for image retrieval (CTI-IR), is a retrieval task where the search intention is expressed in a more complex query format, involving both vision and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yida Zhao , Yuqing Song , Qin Jin

We introduce Probabilistic Object Detection, the task of detecting objects in images and accurately quantifying the spatial and semantic uncertainties of the detections. Given the lack of methods capable of assessing such probabilistic…

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Food retrieval is an important task to perform analysis of food-related information, where we are interested in retrieving relevant information about the queried food item such as ingredients, cooking instructions, etc. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Hao Wang , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Ke Shu , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-peng Lim , Steven C. H. Hoi

Cross-modal retrieval across image and text modalities is a challenging task due to its inherent ambiguity: An image often exhibits various situations, and a caption can be coupled with diverse images. Set-based embedding has been studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Dongwon Kim , Namyup Kim , Suha Kwak

Large-scale pre-training methods of learning cross-modal representations on image-text pairs are becoming popular for vision-language tasks. While existing methods simply concatenate image region features and text features as input to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiujun Li , Xi Yin , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhang , Lijuan Wang , Houdong Hu , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Unsupervised object-centric learning methods allow the partitioning of scenes into entities without additional localization information and are excellent candidates for reducing the annotation burden of multiple-object tracking (MOT)…

Recent lightweight image captioning models using retrieved data mainly focus on text prompts. However, previous works only utilize the retrieved text as text prompts, and the visual information relies only on the CLIP visual embedding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Taewhan Kim , Soeun Lee , Si-Woo Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

Cross-lingual cross-modal retrieval (CCR) aims to retrieve visually relevant content based on non-English queries, without relying on human-labeled cross-modal data pairs during training. One popular approach involves utilizing machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yabing Wang , Le Wang , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Recently, large-scale visual language pre-trained (VLP) models have demonstrated impressive performance across various downstream tasks. Motivated by these advancements, pioneering efforts have emerged in multi-label image recognition with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Leilei Ma , Hongxing Xie , Lei Wang , Yanping Fu , Dengdi Sun , Haifeng Zhao

With the exponential surge in diverse multi-modal data, traditional uni-modal retrieval methods struggle to meet the needs of users seeking access to data across various modalities. To address this, cross-modal retrieval has emerged,…

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Understanding high-resolution (HR) images remains a critical challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Recent approaches leverage vision-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to retrieve query-relevant crops from HR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Fan Yang , Xingping Dong , Xin Yu , Wenhan Luo , Wei Liu , Kaihao Zhang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has emerged as a popular technique to enhance the reliability of machine learning models by identifying unexpected inputs from unknown classes. Recent progress in pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs)…

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Recently, numbers of works shows that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) can be improved to a certain extent with using visual information. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 ZhenHao Tang , XiaoBing Zhang , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

Though quite challenging, leveraging large-scale unlabeled or partially labeled images in a cost-effective way has increasingly attracted interests for its great importance to computer vision. To tackle this problem, many Active Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Keze Wang , Xiaopeng Yan , Dongyu Zhang , Lei Zhang , Liang Lin

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pivotal next-generation technology, enabling users to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kun Zhang , Jingyu Li , Zhe Li , Jingjing Zhang , Fan Li , Yandong Liu , Rui Yan , Zihang Jiang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao , S. Kevin Zhou

Fine-grained text-to-image retrieval aims to retrieve a fine-grained target image with a given text query. Existing methods typically assume that each training image is accurately depicted by its textual descriptions. However, textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Zehong Ma , Hao Chen , Wei Zeng , Limin Su , Shiliang Zhang

In text classification, the problem of overfitting arises due to the high dimensionality, making regularization essential. Although classic regularizers provide sparsity, they fail to return highly accurate models. On the contrary,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Konstantinos Skianis , Nikolaos Tziortziotis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In this paper, we rethink sparse lexical representations for image retrieval. By utilizing multi-modal large language models (M-LLMs) that support visual prompting, we can extract image features and convert them into textual data, enabling…

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