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Large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved high performance in vision-language tasks involving single image but they struggle when presented with a collection of multiple images (Multiple Image Question Answering scenario). These tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Aaryan Sharma , Shivansh Gupta , Samar Agarwal , Vishak Prasad C. , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

The composed image retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve the desired target image for a given multimodal query, i.e., a reference image with its corresponding modification text. The key limitations encountered by existing efforts are two…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

Image-text retrieval aims to bridge the modality gap and retrieve cross-modal content based on semantic similarities. Prior work usually focuses on the pairwise relations (i.e., whether a data sample matches another) but ignores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Leigang Qu , Meng Liu , Wenjie Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

In this paper, we investigate an open research task of cross-modal retrieval between 3D shapes and textual descriptions. Previous approaches mainly rely on point cloud encoders for feature extraction, which may ignore key inherent features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Hao Wu , Ruochong LI , Hao Wang , Hui Xiong

The cross-modal 3D retrieval task aims to achieve mutual matching between text descriptions and 3D shapes. This has the potential to enhance the interaction between natural language and the 3D environment, especially within the realms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Junlong Ren , Hao Wu , Hui Xiong , Hao Wang

Most existing image restoration methods use neural networks to learn strong image-level priors from huge data to estimate the lost information. However, these works still struggle in cases when images have severe information deficits.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunpeng Bai , Cairong Wang , Shuzhao Xie , Chao Dong , Chun Yuan , Zhi Wang

Vision-language fine-tuning has emerged as an efficient paradigm for constructing multimodal foundation models. While textual context often highlights semantic relationships within an image, existing fine-tuning methods typically overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiangyang Wu , Liu Liu , Baosheng Yu , Jiayan Qiu , Zhenwei Shi

Vision-language pretraining on large datasets of images-text pairs is one of the main building blocks of current Vision-Language Models. While with additional training, these models excel in various downstream tasks, including visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Saurabh Srivastava , Jana Košecká

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems have predominantly focused on text-based retrieval, limiting their effectiveness in handling visually-rich documents that encompass text, images, tables, and charts. To bridge this gap, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Mingjun Xu , Zehui Wang , Hengxing Cai , Renxin Zhong

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Haotian Liu , Kilho Son , Jianwei Yang , Ce Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Chunyuan Li

Text-to-image retrieval (T2I retrieval) remains challenging because cross-modal embeddings often behave as bags of concepts, underrepresenting structured visual relationships such as pose and viewpoint. We proposeVisualize-then-Retrieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Di Wu , Yixin Wan , Kai-Wei Chang

Vision-language retrieval is an important multi-modal learning topic, where the goal is to retrieve the most relevant visual candidate for a given text query. Recently, pre-trained models, e.g., CLIP, show great potential on retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haojun Jiang , Jianke Zhang , Rui Huang , Chunjiang Ge , Zanlin Ni , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Image-text retrieval requires the system to bridge the heterogenous gap between vision and language for accurate retrieval while keeping the network lightweight-enough for efficient retrieval. Existing trade-off solutions mainly study from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiamin Zhuang , Jing Yu , Yang Ding , Xiangyan Qu , Yue Hu

The objective in this paper is to improve the performance of text-to-image retrieval. To this end, we introduce a new framework that can boost the performance of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, so that they can be used for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guanqi Zhan , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Composed image retrieval (CIR) requires multi-modal models to jointly reason over visual content and semantic modifications presented in text-image input pairs. While current CIR models achieve strong performance on common benchmark cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chenchen Zhao , Jianhuan Zhuo , Muxi Chen , Zhaohua Zhang , Wenyu Jiang , Tianwen Jiang , Qiuyong Xiao , Jihong Zhang , Qiang Xu

Recent advances in vision foundation models have revolutionized geometry reconstruction and semantic understanding. Yet, most of the existing approaches treat these capabilities in isolation, leading to redundant pipelines and compounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chaoyi Zhou , Run Wang , Feng Luo , Mert D. Pesé , Zhiwen Fan , Yiqi Zhong , Siyu Huang

Cross-modal retrieval is essential for interpreting cultural heritage data, but its effectiveness is often limited by incomplete or inconsistent textual descriptions, caused by historical data loss and the high cost of expert annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jian Zhang , Junyi Guo , Junyi Yuan , Huanda Lu , Yanlin Zhou , Fangyu Wu , Qiufeng Wang , Dongming Lu

The relations expressed in user queries are vital for cross-modal information retrieval. Relation-focused cross-modal retrieval aims to retrieve information that corresponds to these relations, enabling effective retrieval across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yan Gong , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

The Knowledge Graph Completion~(KGC) task aims to infer the missing entity from an incomplete triple. Existing embedding-based methods rely solely on triples in the KG, which is vulnerable to specious relation patterns and long-tail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Muzhi Li , Cehao Yang , Chengjin Xu , Xuhui Jiang , Yiyan Qi , Jian Guo , Ho-fung Leung , Irwin King

Large language models record impressive performance on many natural language processing tasks. However, their knowledge capacity is limited to the pretraining corpus. Retrieval augmentation offers an effective solution by retrieving context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sai Munikoti , Anurag Acharya , Sridevi Wagle , Sameera Horawalavithana