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Human interactions in everyday life are inherently social, involving engagements with diverse individuals across various contexts. Modeling these social interactions is fundamental to a wide range of real-world applications. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Heng Yu , Juze Zhang , Changan Chen , Tiange Xiang , Yusu Fang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Ehsan Adeli

In this paper, we introduce the NameRec* task, which aims to do highly accurate and fine-grained person name recognition. Traditional Named Entity Recognition models have good performance in recognising well-formed person names from text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rui Zhang , Yimeng Dai , Shijie Liu

People are often entities of interest in tasks such as search and information extraction. In these tasks, the goal is to find as much information as possible about people specified by their name. However in text, some of the references to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Oshin Agarwal , Sanjay Subramanian , Ani Nenkova , Dan Roth

Following the recent progress in image classification and captioning using deep learning, we develop a novel natural language person retrieval system based on an attention mechanism. More specifically, given the description of a person, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Tao Zhou , Muhao Chen , Jie Yu , Demetri Terzopoulos

Characterizing users' interests accurately plays a significant role in an effective recommender system. The sequential recommender system can learn powerful hidden representations of users from successive user-item interactions and dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lingxiao Zhang , Jiangpeng Yan , Yujiu Yang , Xiu Li

We introduce RefTon, a flux-based person-to-person virtual try-on framework that enhances garment realism through unpaired visual references. Unlike conventional approaches that rely on complex auxiliary inputs such as body parsing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Liuzhuozheng Li , Yue Gong , Shanyuan Liu , Dengyang Jiang , Zanyi Wang , Bo Cheng , Yuhang Ma , Leibucha Wu , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

Following the principles of Cognitive Grammar, we concentrate on a model for reference resolution that attempts to overcome the difficulties previous approaches, based on the fundamental assumption that all reference (independent on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Susanne Salmon-Alt , Laurent Romary

This paper presents an approach to tackle the re-identification problem. This is a challenging problem due to the large variation of pose, illumination or camera view. More and more datasets are available to train machine learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Matthieu Ospici , Antoine Cecchi

This paper proposes a novel approach to person re-identification, a fundamental task in distributed multi-camera surveillance systems. Although a variety of powerful algorithms have been presented in the past few years, most of them usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Shi-Zhe Chen , Chun-Chao Guo , Jian-Huang Lai

Person re-identification aims at establishing the identity of a pedestrian from a gallery that contains images of multiple people obtained from a multi-camera system. Many challenges such as occlusions, drastic lighting and pose variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Guodong Ding , Salman Khan , Zhenmin Tang , Fatih Porikli

This paper focuses on a referring expression generation (REG) task in which the aim is to pick out an object in a complex visual scene. One common theoretical approach to this problem is to model the task as a two-agent cooperative scheme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Hieu Le , Taufiq Daryanto , Fabian Zhafransyah , Derry Wijaya , Elizabeth Coppock , Sang Chin

Generalized Referring expressions can describe one object, several related objects, or none at all. Existing generalized referring segmentation (GRES) models treat all cases alike, predicting a single binary mask and ignoring how linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 E-Ro Nguyen , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras , Michael S. Ryoo

Learning semantic attributes for person re-identification and description-based person search has gained increasing interest due to attributes' great potential as a pose and view-invariant representation. However, existing attribute-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Zhiyuan Shi , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

As a representative information retrieval task, site recommendation, which aims at predicting the optimal sites for a brand or an institution to open new branches in an automatic data-driven way, is beneficial and crucial for brand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Xinhang Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Yejing Wang , Yu Liu , Yong Li , Cheng Long , Yong Zhang , Chunxiao Xing

The visible orientation of human eyes creates some transparency about people's spatial attention and other mental states. This leads to a dual role of the eyes as a means of sensing and communication. Accordingly, artificial eye models are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Matti Krüger , Yutaka Oshima , Yu Fang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding multimodal inputs and have been widely integrated into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based conversational systems. While current VLM-powered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Jingwei Yi , Junhao Yin , Ju Xu , Peng Bao , Yongliang Wang , Wei Fan , Hao Wang

Person re-identification is becoming a hot research for developing both machine learning algorithms and video surveillance applications. The task of person re-identification is to determine which person in a gallery has the same identity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Shengcai Liao , Zhipeng Mo , Jianqing Zhu , Yang Hu , Stan Z. Li

Person reidentification (re-ID) has been receiving increasing attention in recent years due to its importance for both science and society. Machine learning and particularly Deep Learning (DL) has become the main re-id tool that allowed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Nikita Gabdullin

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

Many studies in recommender systems (RecSys) adopt a general problem definition, i.e., to recommend preferred items to users based on past interactions. Such abstraction often lacks the domain-specific nuances necessary for practical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Aixin Sun