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The image-text retrieval task aims to retrieve relevant information from a given image or text. The main challenge is to unify multimodal representation and distinguish fine-grained differences across modalities, thereby finding similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang

Cross-modal retrieval is an important functionality in modern search engines, as it increases the user experience by allowing queries and retrieved objects to pertain to different modalities. In this paper, we focus on the image-sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. However, current state-of-the-art approaches struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Meizhu Liu , Matthew Rowe , Amit Agarwal , Michael Avendi , Yassi Abbasi , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Paul Li , Kyu J. Han , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

Retrieval plays a fundamental role in recommendation systems, search, and natural language processing (NLP) by efficiently finding relevant items from a large corpus given a query. Dot products have been widely used as the similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Bailu Ding , Jiaqi Zhai

The increasing prevalence of video clips has sparked growing interest in text-video retrieval. Recent advances focus on establishing a joint embedding space for text and video, relying on consistent embedding representations to compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jiamian Wang , Guohao Sun , Pichao Wang , Dongfang Liu , Sohail Dianat , Majid Rabbani , Raghuveer Rao , Zhiqiang Tao

Recent works in end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST) have proposed multi-tasking methods with soft parameter sharing which leverage machine translation (MT) data via secondary encoders that map text inputs to an eventual cross-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Brian Yan , Xuankai Chang , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Yuya Fujita , Shinji Watanabe

Vision-language retrieval aims to search for similar instances in one modality based on queries from another modality. The primary objective is to learn cross-modal matching representations in a latent common space. Actually, the assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yang Yang , Wenjuan Xi , Luping Zhou , Jinhui Tang

In this paper we study the problem of learning from multiple modal data for purpose of document classification. In this problem, each document is composed two different modals of data, i.e., an image and a text. Cross-modal factor analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Jingbin Wang , Yihua Zhou , Kanghong Duan , Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Halima Bensmail

This paper presents a new scalable algorithm for cross-modal similarity preserving retrieval in a learnt manifold space. Unlike existing approaches that compromise between preserving global and local geometries, the proposed technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Sailesh Conjeti , Anees Kazi , Nassir Navab , Amin Katouzian

Video moment retrieval is a challenging task requiring fine-grained interactions between video and text modalities. Recent work in image-text pretraining has demonstrated that most existing pretrained models suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Love Panta , Prashant Shrestha , Brabeem Sapkota , Amrita Bhattarai , Suresh Manandhar , Anand Kumar Sah

Cross-modal feature extraction and integration have led to steady performance improvements in few-shot learning tasks due to generating richer features. However, existing multi-modal object detection (MM-OD) methods degrade when facing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zeyu Shangguan , Daniel Seita , Mohammad Rostami

Text-based person search aims to retrieve images of a certain pedestrian by a textual description. The key challenge of this task is to eliminate the inter-modality gap and achieve the feature alignment across modalities. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shiping Li , Min Cao , Min Zhang

As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

We investigate the problem of multimodal search of target modality, where the task involves enhancing a query in a specific target modality by integrating information from auxiliary modalities. The goal is to retrieve relevant objects whose…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengzhao Wang , Xiangyu Ke , Xiaoliang Xu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Pinpin Huang , Runkai Zhu

Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Wang , Dongliang He , Wenhao Wu , Boyang Xia , Min Yang , Fu Li , Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Dominant dual-encoder models enable efficient image-text retrieval but suffer from limited accuracy while the cross-encoder models offer higher accuracy at the expense of efficiency. Distilling cross-modality matching knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yuxin Chen , Zongyang Ma , Ziqi Zhang , Zhongang Qi , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Junfu Pu , Ying Shan , Xiaojuan Qi , Weiming Hu

Cross-modal 3D retrieval is a critical yet challenging task, aiming to achieve bi-directional retrieval between 3D and text modalities. Current methods predominantly rely on a certain 3D representation (e.g., point cloud), with few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Junlong Ren , Hao Wang

Image-text retrieval, as a fundamental and important branch of information retrieval, has attracted extensive research attentions. The main challenge of this task is cross-modal semantic understanding and matching. Some recent works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Weijing Chen , Linli Yao , Qin Jin

Recent advancements in biology and chemistry have leveraged multi-modal learning, integrating molecules and their natural language descriptions to enhance drug discovery. However, current pre-training frameworks are limited to two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Teng Xiao , Chao Cui , Huaisheng Zhu , Vasant G. Honavar

Text-video retrieval aims to find the most relevant cross-modal samples for a given query. Recent methods focus on modeling the whole spatial-temporal relations. However, since video clips contain more diverse content than captions, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Han Fang , Xianghao Zang , Chao Ban , Zerun Feng , Lanxiang Zhou , Zhongjiang He , Yongxiang Li , Hao Sun