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Information extraction, e.g., attribute value extraction, has been extensively studied and formulated based only on text. However, many attributes can benefit from image-based extraction, like color, shape, pattern, among others. The visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Hejie Cui , Rongmei Lin , Nasser Zalmout , Chenwei Zhang , Jingbo Shang , Carl Yang , Xian Li

We address the task of multi-view image-to-image translation for person image generation. The goal is to synthesize photo-realistic multi-view images with pose-consistency across all views. Our proposed end-to-end framework is based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Idit Diamant , Oranit Dror , Hai Victor Habi , Arnon Netzer

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

One of the major challenges of machine translation (MT) is ambiguity, which can in some cases be resolved by accompanying context such as images. However, recent work in multimodal MT (MMT) has shown that obtaining improvements from images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

As user content and queries become increasingly multi-modal, the need for effective multi-modal search systems has grown. Traditional search systems often rely on textual and metadata annotations for indexed images, while multi-modal…

Image-text retrieval is one of the major tasks of cross-modal retrieval. Several approaches for this task map images and texts into a common space to create correspondences between the two modalities. However, due to the content (semantics)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Xu Zhang , Xinzheng Niu , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Xudong Dai

Under the flourishing development in performance, current image-text retrieval methods suffer from $N$-related time complexity, which hinders their application in practice. Targeting at efficiency improvement, this paper presents a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Min Cao , Yang Bai , Jingyao Wang , Ziqiang Cao , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Cross-modal image-text retrieval is challenging because of the diverse possible associations between content from different modalities. Traditional methods learn a single-vector embedding to represent semantics of each sample, but struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Hani Alomari , Anushka Sivakumar , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Finding a template in a search image is one of the core problems many computer vision, such as semantic image semantic, image-to-GPS verification \etc. We propose a novel quality-aware template matching method, QATM, which is not only used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiaxin Cheng , Yue Wu , Wael Abd-Almageed , Premkumar Natarajan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved substantial progress across a wide range of understanding and reasoning tasks, driven by large-scale image-text training aimed at multimodal fusion. Ideally, replacing a textual question with its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Feng Han , Zhixiong Zhang , Zheming Liang , Yibin Wang , Jiaqi Wang

Utilizing a shared embedding space, emerging multimodal models exhibit unprecedented zero-shot capabilities. However, the shared embedding space could lead to new vulnerabilities if different modalities can be misaligned. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shaeke Salman , Md Montasir Bin Shams , Xiuwen Liu

In most computer vision and image analysis problems, it is necessary to define a similarity measure between two or more different objects or images. Template matching is a classic and fundamental method used to score similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Nazanin Sadat Hashemi , Roya Babaie Aghdam , Atieh Sadat Bayat Ghiasi , Parastoo Fatemi

Retrieving relevant images from a catalog based on a query image together with a modifying caption is a challenging multimodal task that can particularly benefit domains like apparel shopping, where fine details and subtle variations may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Eric Dodds , Jack Culpepper , Gaurav Srivastava

One of the ways blind people understand their surroundings is by clicking images and relying on descriptions generated by image captioning systems. Current work on captioning images for the visually impaired do not use the textual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hiba Ahsan , Nikita Bhalla , Daivat Bhatt , Kaivankumar Shah

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic and semantic consistent image from a specific text description. The images synthesized by off-the-shelf models usually contain limited components compared with the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Qingrong Cheng , Keyu Wen , Xiaodong Gu

Matching information across image and text modalities is a fundamental challenge for many applications that involve both vision and natural language processing. The objective is to find efficient similarity metrics to compare the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Li Ren , Kai Li , LiQiang Wang , Kien Hua

Image matching, which establishes correspondences between two-view images to recover 3D structure and camera geometry, serves as a cornerstone in computer vision and underpins a wide range of applications, including visual localization, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shihua Zhang , Zizhuo Li , Kaining Zhang , Yifan Lu , Yuxin Deng , Linfeng Tang , Xingyu Jiang , Jiayi Ma

Over the past few years, the advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has captured the wide interest of researchers, leading to numerous innovations to enhance MLLMs' comprehension. In this paper, we present AdaptVision, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yonghui Wang , Wengang Zhou , Hao Feng , Houqiang Li

In this abstract we present a series of optimizations we performed on the two-tower model architecture [14], and training and evaluation datasets to implement semantic product search at Best Buy. Search queries on bestbuy.com follow the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Akshay Kekuda , Yuyang Zhang , Arun Udayashankar

Many applications, such as autonomous driving, heavily rely on multi-modal data where spatial alignment between the modalities is required. Most multi-modal registration methods struggle computing the spatial correspondence between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Moab Arar , Yiftach Ginger , Dov Danon , Ilya Leizerson , Amit Bermano , Daniel Cohen-Or