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Image-text matching is crucial for bridging the semantic gap between computer vision and natural language processing. However, existing methods still face challenges in handling high-order associations and semantic ambiguities among similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Junyu Chen , Yihua Gao , Mingyuan Ge , Mingyong Li

Audio-Text retrieval takes a natural language query to retrieve relevant audio files in a database. Conversely, Text-Audio retrieval takes an audio file as a query to retrieve relevant natural language descriptions. Most of the literature…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Soham Deshmukh , Benjamin Elizalde , Huaming Wang

Despite the recent developments in the field of cross-modal retrieval, there has been less research focusing on low-resource languages due to the lack of manually annotated datasets. In this paper, we propose a noise-robust cross-lingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yabing Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Tianxiang Liang , Minsong Zhang , Rui Cai , Xun Wang

The objectives of this work are cross-modal text-audio and audio-text retrieval, in which the goal is to retrieve the audio content from a pool of candidates that best matches a given written description and vice versa. Text-audio retrieval…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 A. Sophia Koepke , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , João F. Henriques , Zeynep Akata , Samuel Albanie

Image-text matching aims to find matched cross-modal pairs accurately. While current methods often rely on projecting cross-modal features into a common embedding space, they frequently suffer from imbalanced feature representations across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zuhui Wang , Yunting Yin , I. V. Ramakrishnan

In recent years, datasets of paired audio and captions have enabled remarkable success in automatically generating descriptions for audio clips, namely Automated Audio Captioning (AAC). However, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Theodoros Kouzelis , Vassilis Katsouros

Aligning acoustic and linguistic representations is a central challenge to bridge the pre-trained models in knowledge transfer for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This alignment is inherently structured and asymmetric: while multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Hisashi Kawai

Video retrieval requires aligning visual content with corresponding natural language descriptions. In this paper, we introduce Modality Auxiliary Concepts for Video Retrieval (MAC-VR), a novel approach that leverages modality-specific tags…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Adriano Fragomeni , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Text-to-Image Person Retrieval (TIPR) is a cross-modal matching task designed to identify the person images that best correspond to a given textual description. The key difficulty in TIPR is to realize robust correspondence between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hao Yin , Xin Man , Feiyu Chen , Jie Shao , Heng Tao Shen

Precise video retrieval requires multi-modal correlations to handle unseen vocabulary and scenes, becoming more complex for lengthy videos where models must perform effectively without prior training on a specific dataset. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mohamed Eltahir , Osamah Sarraj , Mohammed Bremoo , Mohammed Khurd , Abdulrahman Alfrihidi , Taha Alshatiri , Mohammad Almatrafi , Tanveer Hussain

As one of the most fundamental techniques in multimodal learning, cross-modal matching aims to project various sensory modalities into a shared feature space. To achieve this, massive and correctly aligned data pairs are required for model…

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Multimodal large language models have fueled progress in image captioning. These models, fine-tuned on vast image datasets, exhibit a deep understanding of semantic concepts. In this work, we show that this ability can be re-purposed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Hugo Malard , Michel Olvera , Stéphane Lathuiliere , Slim Essid

In the past few years, cross-modal image-text retrieval (ITR) has experienced increased interest in the research community due to its excellent research value and broad real-world application. It is designed for the scenarios where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Min Cao , Shiping Li , Juntao Li , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR) is pivotal for knowledge services and data mining in the remote sensing (RS) domain. Considering the multi-scale representations in image content and text vocabulary can enable the models to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Rui Yang , Shuang Wang , Yingping Han , Yuanheng Li , Dong Zhao , Dou Quan , Yanhe Guo , Licheng Jiao

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

The aim of this research is to refine knowledge transfer on audio-image temporal agreement for audio-text cross retrieval. To address the limited availability of paired non-speech audio-text data, learning methods for transferring the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Shunsuke Tsubaki , Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Keisuke Imoto

Text attribute person search aims to find specific pedestrians through given textual attributes, which is very meaningful in the scene of searching for designated pedestrians through witness descriptions. The key challenge is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xin Wang , Fangfang Liu , Zheng Li , Caili Guo

Audio-text retrieval is crucial for bridging acoustic signals and natural language. While contrastive dual-encoder architectures like CLAP have shown promise, they are fundamentally limited by the capacity of small-scale encoders.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jilan Xu , Carl Thomé , Danijela Horak , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

The explosive growth of video streaming presents challenges in achieving high accuracy and low training costs for video-language retrieval. However, existing methods rely on large-scale pre-training to improve video retrieval performance,…

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