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Cross-modal retrieval aims to measure the content similarity between different types of data. The idea has been previously applied to visual, text, and speech data. In this paper, we present a novel cross-modal retrieval method specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Numan Khurshid , Talha Hanif , Mohbat Tharani , Murtaza Taj

Vision and Language (VL) models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot performance in a variety of tasks. However, some aspects of complex language understanding still remain a challenge. We introduce the collective notion of Structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Sivan Doveh , Assaf Arbelle , Sivan Harary , Rameswar Panda , Roei Herzig , Eli Schwartz , Donghyun Kim , Raja Giryes , Rogerio Feris , Shimon Ullman , Leonid Karlinsky

The goal of Text-to-Image Person Retrieval (TIPR) is to retrieve specific person images according to the given textual descriptions. A primary challenge in this task is bridging the substantial representational gap between visual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Delong Liu , Haiwen Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Yuan Dong

Text-to-image retrieval aims to find the relevant images based on a text query, which is important in various use-cases, such as digital libraries, e-commerce, and multimedia databases. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zijun Long , Xuri Ge , Richard Mccreadie , Joemon Jose

The social media explosion has populated the Internet with a wealth of images. There are two existing paradigms for image retrieval: 1) content-based image retrieval (CBIR), which has traditionally used visual features for similarity search…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury , Niket Tandon , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu , Gerhard Weikum

In text-to-image person retrieval tasks, the diversity of natural language expressions and the implicitness of visual semantics often lead to the problem of Expression Drift, where semantically equivalent texts exhibit significant feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chao Yuan , Yujian Zhao , Haoxuan Xu , Guanglin Niu

Recent advances in large vision-language models have revolutionized the image classification paradigm. Despite showing impressive zero-shot capabilities, a pre-defined set of categories, a.k.a. the vocabulary, is assumed at test time for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Alessandro Conti , Enrico Fini , Massimiliano Mancini , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Effective cross-modal retrieval is essential for applications like information retrieval and recommendation systems, particularly in specialized domains such as manufacturing, where product information often consists of visual samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Francesco Giuliari , Asif Khan Pattan , Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Fabio Poiesi

Contextual cues related to a person's pose and interactions with objects and other people in the scene can provide valuable information for gaze following. While existing methods have focused on dedicated cue extraction methods, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Anshul Gupta , Pierre Vuillecard , Arya Farkhondeh , Jean-Marc Odobez

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at image-text retrieval yet persistently fail at compositional reasoning, distinguishing captions that share the same words but differ in relational structure. We present, a unified evaluation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Amartya Bhattacharya

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities in various vision-language dialogue scenarios. However, the absence of fine-grained visual object detection hinders the model from understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Junyu Lu , Dixiang Zhang , Songxin Zhang , Zejian Xie , Zhuoyang Song , Cong Lin , Jiaxing Zhang , Bingyi Jing , Pingjian Zhang

Most of the research in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) focus on developing robust feature representations that can effectively retrieve instances from a database of images that are visually similar to a query. However, the retrieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Aishwarya Venkataramanan , Martin Laviale , Cédric Pradalier

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

Vision and language models (VLMs) such as CLIP have showcased remarkable zero-shot recognition abilities yet face challenges in visio-linguistic compositionality, particularly in linguistic comprehension and fine-grained image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Youngtaek Oh , Pyunghwan Ahn , Jinhyung Kim , Gwangmo Song , Soonyoung Lee , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim

Interactive Image Retrieval (IIR) aims to retrieve images that are generally similar to the reference image but under the requested text modification. The existing methods usually concatenate or sum the features of image and text simply and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Fuxiang Huang , Lei Zhang

We present VISPROG, a neuro-symbolic approach to solving complex and compositional visual tasks given natural language instructions. VISPROG avoids the need for any task-specific training. Instead, it uses the in-context learning ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Tanmay Gupta , Aniruddha Kembhavi

In this paper, we propose an efficient and high-performance method for partially relevant video retrieval, which aims to retrieve long videos that contain at least one moment relevant to the input text query. The challenge lies in encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Taichi Nishimura , Shota Nakada , Masayoshi Kondo

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) uses contrastive learning from noise image-text pairs to excel at recognizing a wide array of candidates, yet its focus on broad associations hinders the precision in distinguishing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ziyu Liu , Zeyi Sun , Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal capabilities in learning joint representations of visual and textual data, making them powerful tools for tasks such as Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL). CZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kyle Stein , Arash Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

This paper explores training medical vision-language models (VLMs) -- where the visual and language inputs are embedded into a common space -- with a particular focus on scenarios where training data is limited, as is often the case in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rhydian Windsor , Amir Jamaludin , Timor Kadir , Andrew Zisserman