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We propose a unified representation learning framework to address the Cross Model Compatibility (CMC) problem in the context of visual search applications. Cross compatibility between different embedding models enables the visual search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Chien-Yi Wang , Ya-Liang Chang , Shang-Ta Yang , Dong Chen , Shang-Hong Lai

Partial Multi-label Learning (PML) is a type of weakly supervised learning where each training instance corresponds to a set of candidate labels, among which only some are true. In this paper, we introduce \our{}, a novel probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Łukasz Struski , Adam Pardyl , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

Image captioning, a popular topic in computer vision, has achieved substantial progress in recent years. However, the distinctiveness of natural descriptions is often overlooked in previous work. It is closely related to the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Video highlight detection is a crucial yet challenging problem that aims to identify the interesting moments in untrimmed videos. The key to this task lies in effective video representations that jointly pursue two goals, \textit{i.e.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shuaicheng Li , Feng Zhang , Kunlin Yang , Lingbo Liu , Shinan Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi

Aligning large-scale commercial models with user intent is crucial to preventing harmful outputs. Current methods rely on human supervision but become impractical as model complexity increases. When models surpass human knowledge, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jinhao Li , Sarah M. Erfani , Lei Feng , James Bailey , Feng Liu

In this paper we address the problem of learning robust cross-domain representations for sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR). While most SBIR approaches focus on extracting low- and mid-level descriptors for direct feature matching, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Dan Xu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Jingkuan Song , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Contrastive learning (CL) has shown impressive advances in image representation learning in whichever supervised multi-class classification or unsupervised learning. However, these CL methods fail to be directly adapted to multi-label image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhongchen Ma , Lisha Li , Qirong Mao , Songcan Chen

In Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs), the efficacy of In-Context Learning (ICL) remains limited by challenges in cross-modal interactions and representation disparities. To overcome these challenges, we introduce a novel Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yucheng Zhou , Xiang Li , Qianning Wang , Jianbing Shen

Contrastive learning (CL) has become a ubiquitous approach for several natural language processing (NLP) downstream tasks, especially for question answering (QA). However, the major challenge, how to efficiently train the knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Wenshen Xu , Mieradilijiang Maimaiti , Yuanhang Zheng , Xin Tang , Ji Zhang

Contrastive learning allows us to flexibly define powerful losses by contrasting positive pairs from sets of negative samples. Recently, the principle has also been used to learn cross-modal embeddings for video and text, yet without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yi Zhu , Peter Gehler , Thomas Brox

Recently, vision model pre-training has evolved from relying on manually annotated datasets to leveraging large-scale, web-crawled image-text data. Despite these advances, there is no pre-training method that effectively exploits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Chenyu Yang , Xizhou Zhu , Jinguo Zhu , Weijie Su , Junjie Wang , Xuan Dong , Wenhai Wang , Lewei Lu , Bin Li , Jie Zhou , Yu Qiao , Jifeng Dai

Semi-supervised learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring the costly expert-examined annotations. Especially, the consistency-based approaches have attracted more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zhe Xu , Yixin Wang , Donghuan Lu , Lequan Yu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Multifold observations are common for different data modalities, e.g., a 3D shape can be represented by multi-view images and an image can be described with different captions. Existing cross-modal contrastive representation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ye Wang , Bowei Jiang , Changqing Zou , Rui Ma

Text-video retrieval aims to find the most semantically similar videos with given text queries. However, since videos contain more diverse content than texts, the main semantics expressed by each text-video pair is often partially relevant.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiaolun Jing , Xinxing Yang , Genke Yang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is gaining considerable attention owing to recent methods that overcome the inefficiency and misleading results from the absence of supervised information. Contrastive learning methods excel at existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Renxiang Guan , Zihao Li , Xianju Li , Chang Tang

Extracting image semantics effectively and assigning corresponding labels to multiple objects or attributes for natural images is challenging due to the complex scene contents and confusing label dependencies. Recent works have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Leilei Ma , Dengdi Sun , Lei Wang , Haifeng Zhao , Bin Luo

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models excel at understanding image-text relationships but struggle with adapting to new data without forgetting prior knowledge. To address this, models are typically fine-tuned using both new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan King , Gang Li , Bobak Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

In clinical practice, crossmodal information including medical images and tabular data is essential for disease diagnosis. There exists a significant modality gap between these data types, which obstructs advancements in crossmodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tianling Liu , Hongying Liu , Fanhua Shang , Lequan Yu , Tong Han , Liang Wan

Given a collection of untrimmed and unsegmented videos, video corpus moment retrieval (VCMR) is to retrieve a temporal moment (i.e., a fraction of a video) that semantically corresponds to a given text query. As video and text are from two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Guoshun Nan , Liangli Zhen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang