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Multi-modal recommendation greatly enhances the performance of recommender systems by modeling the auxiliary information from multi-modality contents. Most existing multi-modal recommendation models primarily exploit multimedia information…

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In zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition (ZSAR), aligning skeleton features with the text features of action labels is essential for accurately predicting unseen actions. ZSAR faces a fundamental challenge in bridging the modality gap…

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Multi-view learning primarily aims to fuse multiple features to describe data comprehensively. Most prior studies implicitly assume that different views share similar dimensions. In practice, however, severe dimensional disparities often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Cai Xu , Changhao Sun , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao

This paper introduces a modular, non-deep learning method for filtering and refining sparse correspondences in image matching. Assuming that motion flow within the scene can be approximated by local homography transformations, matches are…

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Multi-modal embeddings form the foundation for vision-language models, such as CLIP embeddings, the most widely used text-image embeddings. However, these embeddings are vulnerable to subtle misalignment of cross-modal features, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yilin Ye , Shishi Xiao , Xingchen Zeng , Wei Zeng

Cross-modal retrieval is crucial in understanding latent correspondences across modalities. However, existing methods implicitly assume well-matched training data, which is impractical as real-world data inevitably involves imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhuohang Dang , Minnan Luo , Jihong Wang , Chengyou Jia , Haochen Han , Herun Wan , Guang Dai , Xiaojun Chang , Jingdong Wang

Feature modeling of different modalities is a basic problem in current research of cross-modal information retrieval. Existing models typically project texts and images into one embedding space, in which semantically similar information…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jing Yu , Chenghao Yang , Zengchang Qin , Zhuoqian Yang , Yue Hu , Weifeng Zhang

Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensively reviews modality-based feature matching, exploring…

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Learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings is an open problem in natural language processing. In this work, we propose a sentence embedding learning approach that exploits both visual and textual information via a multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Miaoran Zhang , Marius Mosbach , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

Feature matching is a crucial task in the field of computer vision, which involves finding correspondences between images. Previous studies achieve remarkable performance using learning-based feature comparison. However, the pervasive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yesheng Zhang , Xu Zhao

Medical image analysis increasingly relies on the integration of multiple imaging modalities to capture complementary anatomical and functional information, enabling more accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Achieving aligned feature…

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Incorporating spatial information, particularly those influenced by climate, weather, and demographic factors, is crucial for improving underwriting precision and enhancing risk management in insurance. However, spatial data are often…

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Recently, vision-language models like CLIP have advanced the state of the art in a variety of multi-modal tasks including image captioning and caption evaluation. Many approaches leverage CLIP for cross-modal retrieval to condition…

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End-to-end Large Speech Language Models (LSLMs) have demonstrated impressive conversational generation abilities, yet consistently fall short of traditional pipeline systems on semantic understanding benchmarks. In this work, we reveal…

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Conventional techniques to establish dense correspondences across visually or semantically similar images focused on designing a task-specific matching prior, which is difficult to model. To overcome this, recent learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

Disentangling anatomical and contrast information from medical images has gained attention recently, demonstrating benefits for various image analysis tasks. Current methods learn disentangled representations using either paired multi-modal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Lianrui Zuo , Yihao Liu , Yuan Xue , Shuo Han , Murat Bilgel , Susan M. Resnick , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

Cross-modal alignment is an important multi-modal task, aiming to bridge the semantic gap between different modalities. The most reliable fundamention for achieving this objective lies in the semantic consistency between matched pairs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiang Ma , Litian Xu , Lexin Fang , Caiming Zhang , Lizhen Cui

Text-image alignment constitutes a foundational challenge in multimedia content understanding, where effective modeling of cross-modal semantic correspondences critically enhances retrieval system performance through joint embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rongjun Chen , Chengsi Yao , Jinchang Ren , Xianxian Zeng , Peixian Wang , Jun Yuan , Jiawen Li , Huimin Zhao , Xu Lu

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

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

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