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Image-to-video person re-identification identifies a target person by a probe image from quantities of pedestrian videos captured by non-overlapping cameras. Despite the great progress achieved,it's still challenging to match in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Zhongwei Xie , Lin Li , Xian Zhong , Luo Zhong

We propose a novel, efficient, modular and scalable framework for content based visual media retrieval systems by leveraging the power of Deep Learning which is flexible to work both for images and videos conjointly and we also introduce an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Ambareesh Ravi , Amith Nandakumar

Reranking is a critical component in many information retrieval pipelines. Despite remarkable progress in text-only settings, multimodal reranking remains challenging, particularly when the candidate set contains hybrid text and image…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yupei Yang , Lin Yang , Wanxi Deng , Lin Qu , Shikui Tu , Lei Xu

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MMRAG) has been introduced to enhance Multimodal Large Language Models by incorporating externally retrieved multimodal knowledge, but it introduces two challenges: Parametric-Retrieved Knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yang Tian , Fan Liu , Jingyuan Zhang , Victoria W. , Yupeng Hu , Liqiang Nie

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

Humans have an incredible ability to process and understand information from multiple sources such as images, video, text, and speech. Recent success of deep neural networks has enabled us to develop algorithms which give machines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Dheeraj Peri , Shagan Sah , Raymond Ptucha

Recent research in the domain of multimodal unified representations predominantly employs codebook as representation forms, utilizing Vector Quantization(VQ) for quantization, yet there has been insufficient exploration of other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hai Huang , Shulei Wang , Yan Xia

Recent advances in the fields of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning have focused on improving the performance of search engines to enhance the user experience, especially in the world of online shopping. The focus has thus been on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Marie Al Ghossein , Ching-Wei Chen , Jason Tang

We present a new multimodal question answering challenge, ManyModalQA, in which an agent must answer a question by considering three distinct modalities: text, images, and tables. We collect our data by scraping Wikipedia and then utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Darryl Hannan , Akshay Jain , Mohit Bansal

Retrieving visual and textual information from medical literature and hospital records can enhance diagnostic accuracy for clinical image interpretation. However, multimodal retrieval-augmented diagnosis is highly challenging. We explore a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nir Mazor , Tom Hope

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the question answering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge and has recently been extended to multimodal settings through Vision-Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Simon Binz , Heydar Soudani , Faegheh Hasibi

Text-to-image generation increasingly demands access to domain-specific, fine-grained, and rapidly evolving knowledge that pretrained models cannot fully capture, necessitating the integration of retrieval methods. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mengdan Zhu , Senhao Cheng , Guangji Bai , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal LLMs have been remarkable. However, these models still rely solely on their parametric knowledge, which limits their ability to generate up-to-date information and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zihan Ling , Zhiyao Guo , Yixuan Huang , Yi An , Shuai Xiao , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng

Most existing cross-modal language-to-video retrieval (VR) research focuses on single-modal input from video, i.e., visual representation, while the text is omnipresent in human environments and frequently critical to understand video. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Zhuang Li , Jiahong Li , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Xiang Bai

As real-world knowledge continues to evolve, the parametric knowledge acquired by multimodal models during pretraining becomes increasingly difficult to remain consistent with real-world knowledge. Existing research on multimodal knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Baochen Fu , Yuntao Du , Cheng Chang , Baihao Jin , Wenzhi Deng , Muhao Xu , Hongmei Yan , Weiye Song , Yi Wan

We study visual question answering in a setting where the answer has to be mined from a pool of relevant and irrelevant images given as a context. For such a setting, a model must first retrieve relevant images from the pool and answer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Abhirama Subramanyam Penamakuri , Manish Gupta , Mithun Das Gupta , Anand Mishra

This paper revisits visual representation in knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) and demonstrates that using regional information in a better way can significantly improve the performance. While visual representation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuanze Lin , Yujia Xie , Dongdong Chen , Yichong Xu , Chenguang Zhu , Lu Yuan

Knowledge-intensive visual question answering (VQA) requires external knowledge beyond image content, demanding precise visual grounding and coherent integration of visual and textual information. Although multimodal retrieval-augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Changin Choi , Wonseok Lee , Jungmin Ko , Wonjong Rhee

We introduce MRMR, the first expert-level multidisciplinary multimodal retrieval benchmark requiring intensive reasoning. MRMR contains 1,502 queries spanning 23 domains, with positive documents carefully verified by human experts. Compared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Siyue Zhang , Yuan Gao , Xiao Zhou , Yilun Zhao , Tingyu Song , Arman Cohan , Anh Tuan Luu , Chen Zhao

With the advancement of large-scale language modeling techniques, large multimodal models combining visual encoders with large language models have demonstrated exceptional performance in various visual tasks. Most of the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yi Chen , Jian Xu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Wen-Zhuo Liu , Yang-Yang Liu , Cheng-Lin Liu