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Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

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Streamlining content discovery within media archives requires integrating advanced data representations and effective visualization techniques for clear communication of video topics to users. The proposed system addresses the challenge of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Oron Nir , Idan Vidra , Avi Neeman , Barak Kinarti , Ariel Shamir

We address the problem of referring image segmentation that aims to generate a mask for the object specified by a natural language expression. Many recent works utilize Transformer to extract features for the target object by aggregating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chang Liu , Henghui Ding , Yulun Zhang , Xudong Jiang

While recent progress in video-text retrieval has been advanced by the exploration of better representation learning, in this paper, we present a novel multi-grained sparse learning framework, S3MA, to learn an aligned sparse space shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yimu Wang , Peng Shi

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jie Guo , Meiting Wang , Yan Zhou , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Wei Fan , Jianglong Chang

Image-text matching (ITM) aims to address the fundamental challenge of aligning visual and textual modalities, which inherently differ in their representations, continuous, high-dimensional image features vs. discrete, structured text. We…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Junyu Chen , Yihua Gao , Mingyong Li

Activity image-to-video retrieval task aims to retrieve videos containing the similar activity as the query image, which is a challenging task because videos generally have many background segments irrelevant to the activity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Ruicong Xu , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

Remote sensing (RS) image-text retrieval plays a critical role in understanding massive RS imagery. However, the dense multi-object distribution and complex backgrounds in RS imagery make it difficult to simultaneously achieve fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xi Chen , Xu Chen , Xiangyang Jia , Xu Zhang , Shuquan Wei , Wei Wang

Semantic location prediction aims to derive meaningful location insights from multimodal social media posts, offering a more contextual understanding of daily activities than using GPS coordinates. This task faces significant challenges due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhizhen Zhang , Ning Wang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang

Multimedia information retrieval from videos remains a challenging problem. While recent systems have advanced multimodal search through semantic, object, and OCR queries - and can retrieve temporally consecutive scenes - they often rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Van-Thinh Vo , Minh-Khoi Nguyen , Minh-Huy Tran , Anh-Quan Nguyen-Tran , Duy-Tan Nguyen , Khanh-Loi Nguyen , Anh-Minh Phan

Multimodal retrieval systems typically employ Vision Language Models (VLMs) that encode images and text independently into vectors within a shared embedding space. Despite incorporating text encoders, VLMs consistently underperform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xinyuan Zhang , Lina Zhang , Lisung Chen , Guangyao Liu , Shuai Nie , Jiaming Xu , Runyu Shi , Ying Huang , Guoquan Zhang

Video moment retrieval (MR) and highlight detection (HD) based on natural language queries are two highly related tasks, which aim to obtain relevant moments within videos and highlight scores of each video clip. Recently, several methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Hao Sun , Mingyao Zhou , Wenjing Chen , Wei Xie

Most existing audio-text retrieval (ATR) methods focus on constructing contrastive pairs between whole audio clips and complete caption sentences, while ignoring fine-grained cross-modal relationships, e.g., short segments and phrases or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yifei Xin , Yuexian Zou

Video recognition in an open and dynamic world is quite challenging, as we need to handle different settings such as close-set, long-tail, few-shot and open-set. By leveraging semantic knowledge from noisy text descriptions crawled from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jintao Lin , Zhaoyang Liu , Wenhai Wang , Wayne Wu , Limin Wang

Effective video retrieval remains challenging due to the complexity of integrating visual, auditory, and textual modalities. In this paper, we explore unified retrieval methods using OmniEmbed, a powerful multimodal embedding model from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jiaqi Samantha Zhan , Crystina Zhang , Shengyao Zhuang , Xueguang Ma , Jimmy Lin

Visual-semantic embedding aims to learn a joint embedding space where related video and sentence instances are located close to each other. Most existing methods put instances in a single embedding space. However, they struggle to embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Huy Manh Nguyen , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Video frame interpolation (VFI) aims to generate predictive frames by warping learnable motions from the bidirectional historical references. Most existing works utilize spatio-temporal semantic information extractor to realize motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Meiqin Liu , Chenming Xu , Chao Yao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao

For many computer vision applications such as image captioning, visual question answering, and person search, learning discriminative feature representations at both image and text level is an essential yet challenging problem. Its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Xiang Xu , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

This paper aims for the task of text-to-video retrieval, where given a query in the form of a natural-language sentence, it is asked to retrieve videos which are semantically relevant to the given query, from a great number of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jianfeng Dong , Yabing Wang , Xianke Chen , Xiaoye Qu , Xirong Li , Yuan He , Xun Wang

Answering questions that require reading texts in an image is challenging for current models. One key difficulty of this task is that rare, polysemous, and ambiguous words frequently appear in images, e.g., names of places, products, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Difei Gao , Ke Li , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen