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Text-to-image person re-identification (TIReID) aims to retrieve the target person from an image gallery via a textual description query. Recently, pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have attracted significant attention and have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Weihao Li , Lei Tan , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Recovering natural language prompts for image generation models, solely based on the generated images is a difficult discrete optimization problem. In this work, we present the first head-to-head comparison of recent discrete optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Joshua Nathaniel Williams , Avi Schwarzschild , Yutong He , J. Zico Kolter

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image from a database using a multimodal query, which consists of a reference image and a modification text. The text specifies how to alter the reference image to form a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tong Wang , Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a task that retrieves images similar to a query, based on a provided textual modification. Current techniques rely on supervised learning for CIR models using labeled triplets of the reference image, text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Young Kyun Jang , Donghyun Kim , Zihang Meng , Dat Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a pivotal and complex task in multimodal understanding. Current CIR benchmarks typically feature limited query categories and fail to capture the diverse requirements of real-world scenarios. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tingyu Song , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Zhuoning Guo , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao , Shu Wu

Fine-tuning image captioning models with hand-crafted rewards like the CIDEr metric has been a classical strategy for promoting caption quality at the sequence level. This approach, however, is known to limit descriptiveness and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

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

Inspired by retrieval-augmented language generation and pretrained Vision and Language (V&L) encoders, we present a new approach to image captioning that generates sentences given the input image and a set of captions retrieved from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rita Ramos , Desmond Elliott , Bruno Martins

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) associates hand-drawn sketches with their corresponding realistic images. In this study, we aim to tackle two major challenges of this task simultaneously: i) zero-shot, dealing with unseen categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Liying Gao , Bingliang Jiao , Peng Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Image captioning models often suffer from performance degradation when applied to novel datasets, as they are typically trained on domain-specific data. To enhance generalization in out-of-domain scenarios, retrieval-augmented approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hao Wu , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

The evolution of prompt learning methodologies has driven exploration of deeper prompt designs to enhance model performance. However, current deep text prompting approaches suffer from two critical limitations: Over-reliance on constrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qiqi Zhan , Shiwei Li , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

We focus on domain and class generalization problems in analyzing optical remote sensing images, using the large-scale pre-trained vision-language model (VLM), CLIP. While contrastively trained VLMs show impressive zero-shot generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avigyan Bhattacharya , Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

The explosive increase and ubiquitous accessibility of visual data on the Web have led to the prosperity of research activity in image search or retrieval. With the ignorance of visual content as a ranking clue, methods with text search…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Remote sensing image-text retrieval plays a crucial role in remote sensing interpretation, yet remains challenging under both closed-domain and open-domain scenarios due to semantic noise and domain shifts. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jiancheng Pan , Muyuan Ma , Qing Ma , Cong Bai , Shengyong Chen

Recent advances in multimodal learning has resulted in powerful vision-language models, whose representations are generalizable across a variety of downstream tasks. Recently, their generalization ability has been further extended by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Koustava Goswami , Srikrishna Karanam , Prateksha Udhayanan , K J Joseph , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Real-world data processing problems often involve various image modalities associated with a certain scene, including RGB images, infrared images or multi-spectral images. The fact that different image modalities often share certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Pingfan Song , Xin Deng , João F. C. Mota , Nikos Deligiannis , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Contrastive learning has become a new paradigm for unsupervised sentence embeddings. Previous studies focus on instance-wise contrastive learning, attempting to construct positive pairs with textual data augmentation. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jiali Zeng , Yongjing Yin , Yufan Jiang , Shuangzhi Wu , Yunbo Cao

Prompt learning (PL) has emerged as an effective strategy to adapt vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, for downstream tasks under limited supervision. While PL has demonstrated strong generalization on natural image datasets, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Pankhi Kashyap , Mainak Singha , Biplab Banerjee

Prompt engineering is a powerful tool used to enhance the performance of pre-trained models on downstream tasks. For example, providing the prompt "Let's think step by step" improved GPT-3's reasoning accuracy to 63% on MutiArith while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang