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Large language models with retrieval-augmented generation encounter a pivotal challenge in intricate retrieval tasks, e.g., multi-hop question answering, which requires the model to navigate across multiple documents and generate…

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In the field of Image-Text Retrieval (ITR), recent advancements have leveraged large-scale Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) for Fine-Grained (FG) instance-level retrieval, achieving high accuracy at the cost of increased computational…

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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves relevant images based on a reference image and accompanying text describing desired modifications. However, existing CIR methods only focus on retrieving the target image and disregard the relevance…

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Multimodal entity linking plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications. Recent advances in large language model-based methods have become the dominant paradigm for this task, effectively leveraging both textual and visual modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziyan Liu , Junwen Li , Kaiwen Li , Tong Ruan , Chao Wang , Xinyan He , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Jingping Liu

In addition to relevance, diversity is an important yet less studied performance metric of cross-modal image retrieval systems, which is critical to user experience. Existing solutions for diversity-aware image retrieval either explicitly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Minyi Zhao , Jinpeng Wang , Dongliang Liao , Yiru Wang , Huanzhong Duan , Shuigeng Zhou

Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-image generation (T2I) and editing (TI2I), whether instantiated as assembled unified frameworks which couple powerful vision-language model (VLM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuxin Song , Wenkai Dong , Shizun Wang , Qi Zhang , Song Xue , Tao Yuan , Hu Yang , Haocheng Feng , Hang Zhou , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang

Searching is an important tool of information gathering, if information is in the form of picture than it play a major role to take quick action and easy to memorize. This is a human tendency to retain more picture than text. The complexity…

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Recent video-text foundation models have demonstrated strong performance on a wide variety of downstream video understanding tasks. Can these video-text models genuinely understand the contents of natural videos? Standard video-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Wufei Ma , Kai Li , Zhongshi Jiang , Moustafa Meshry , Qihao Liu , Huiyu Wang , Christian Häne , Alan Yuille

In recent years, there has been significant progress in the development of text-to-image generative models. Evaluating the quality of the generative models is one essential step in the development process. Unfortunately, the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lin Zhao , Tianchen Zhao , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Guohao Dai , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) typically process hundreds or thousands of visual tokens per image or video frame, incurring quadratic attention cost and substantial redundancy. Existing token reduction methods often ignore the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kaitong Cai , Jusheng Zhang , Jing Yang , Yijia Fan , Pengtao Xie , Jian Wang , Keze Wang

Text-image cross-modal retrieval is a challenging task in the field of language and vision. Most previous approaches independently embed images and sentences into a joint embedding space and compare their similarities. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Zihao Wang , Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang , Jing Shao

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

The text retrieval is the task of retrieving similar documents to a search query, and it is important to improve retrieval accuracy while maintaining a certain level of retrieval speed. Existing studies have reported accuracy improvements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yuichi Sasazawa , Kenichi Yokote , Osamu Imaichi , Yasuhiro Sogawa

Image captioning task has been extensively researched by previous work. However, limited experiments focus on generating captions based on non-autoregressive text decoder. Inspired by the recent success of the denoising diffusion model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shitong Xu

Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image paired with corresponding modification text. Recent CIR studies leverage vision-language pre-trained (VLP) methods as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Xiaolin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Image captioning models require the high-level generalization ability to describe the contents of various images in words. Most existing approaches treat the image-caption pairs equally in their training without considering the differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hongkuan Zhang , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa , Lei Zhou , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

As online video content rapidly grows, the task of text-video retrieval (TVR) becomes increasingly important. A key challenge in TVR is the information asymmetry between video and text: videos are inherently richer in information, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zechen Bai , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Pichao Wang , Zheng Zhang , Thomas Brox , Mike Zheng Shou

This work addresses composed image retrieval in the context of domain conversion, where the content of a query image is retrieved in the domain specified by the query text. We show that a strong vision-language model provides sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Nikos Efthymiadis , Bill Psomas , Zakaria Laskar , Konstantinos Karantzalos , Yannis Avrithis , Ondřej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated great performance on visual question answering (VQA). When it comes to knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA), MLLMs may lack the specialized domain knowledge needed to…

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