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Humans do not just see attribute similarity -- we also see relational similarity. An apple is like a peach because both are reddish fruit, but the Earth is also like a peach: its crust, mantle, and core correspond to the peach's skin,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Thao Nguyen , Sicheng Mo , Krishna Kumar Singh , Yilin Wang , Jing Shi , Nicholas Kolkin , Eli Shechtman , Yong Jae Lee , Yuheng Li

In most computer vision and image analysis problems, it is necessary to define a similarity measure between two or more different objects or images. Template matching is a classic and fundamental method used to score similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Nazanin Sadat Hashemi , Roya Babaie Aghdam , Atieh Sadat Bayat Ghiasi , Parastoo Fatemi

We present a technique for estimating the similarity between objects such as movies or foods whose proper representation depends on human perception. Our technique combines a modest number of human similarity assessments to infer a pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Jesse Anderton , Pavel Metrikov , Virgil Pavlu , Javed Aslam

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

The definition of similarity is a key prerequisite when analyzing complex data types in data mining, information retrieval, or machine learning. However, the meaningful definition is often hampered by the complexity of data objects and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Jürgen Bernard , Christian Ritter , David Sessler , Matthias Zeppelzauer , Jörn Kohlhammer , Dieter Fellner

The increasing impact of black box models, and particularly of unsupervised ones, comes with an increasing interest in tools to understand and interpret them. In this paper, we consider in particular how to characterise visual groupings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Iro Laina , Ruth C. Fong , Andrea Vedaldi

The expanse of information available over the internet makes it difficult to identify whether a specific work is a replica or a duplication of a protected work, especially if we talk about visual representations. Strategies are planned to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ashutosh , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya

A totally semantic measure is presented which is able to calculate a similarity value between concept descriptions and also between concept description and individual or between individuals expressed in an expressive description logic. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-11-30 Claudia d'Amato , Nicola Fanizzi , Floriana Esposito

What does it mean for two videos to be similar? Videos may appear similar when judged by the actions they depict, yet entirely different if evaluated based on the locations where they were filmed. While humans naturally compare videos by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Lorenzo Vaquero , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci , Paolo Rota

Measuring the similarity of short written contexts is a fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing. This article provides a unifying framework by which short context problems can be categorized both by their intended application and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Ted Pedersen

CLIP is one of the most popular foundational models and is heavily used for many vision-language tasks. However, little is known about the inner workings of CLIP. To bridge this gap we propose a study to quantify the interpretability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Avinash Madasu , Yossi Gandelsman , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

Image descriptions can help visually impaired people to quickly understand the image content. While we made significant progress in automatically describing images and optical character recognition, current approaches are unable to include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Oleksii Sidorov , Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Amanpreet Singh

Classifying images with an interpretable decision-making process is a long-standing problem in computer vision. In recent years, Prototypical Part Networks has gained traction as an approach for self-explainable neural networks, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhijie Zhu , Lei Fan , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

This paper presents a novel approach for automatically generating image descriptions: visual detectors, language models, and multimodal similarity models learnt directly from a dataset of image captions. We use multiple instance learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Hao Fang , Saurabh Gupta , Forrest Iandola , Rupesh Srivastava , Li Deng , Piotr Dollár , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Margaret Mitchell , John C. Platt , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Geoffrey Zweig

Explainable object recognition using vision-language models such as CLIP involves predicting accurate category labels supported by rationales that justify the decision-making process. Existing methods typically rely on prompt-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ali Rasekh , Sepehr Kazemi Ranjbar , Simon Gottschalk

In recent years, semantic similarity measure has a great interest in Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Several similarity measures have been developed, being given the existence of a structured knowledge representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Thabet Slimani

Perceptual similarity scores that align with human vision are critical for both training and evaluating computer vision models. Deep perceptual losses, such as LPIPS, achieve good alignment but rely on complex, highly non-linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Paula Seidler , Neill D. F. Campbell , Ivor J A Simpson

To what extent are two images picturing the same 3D surfaces? Even when this is a known scene, the answer typically requires an expensive search across scale space, with matching and geometric verification of large sets of local features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Anita Rau , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Danail Stoyanov , Gabriel J. Brostow , Daniyar Turmukhambetov

Human perception is routinely assessing the similarity between images, both for decision making and creative thinking. But the underlying cognitive process is not really well understood yet, hence difficult to be mimicked by computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Olivier Risser-Maroix , Amine Marzouki , Hala Djeghim , Camille Kurtz , Nicolas Lomenie

We consider the problem of visually explaining similarity models, i.e., explaining why a model predicts two images to be similar in addition to producing a scalar score. While much recent work in visual model interpretability has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Richard J. Radke , Ziyan Wu