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Generative Information Retrieval is an emerging retrieval paradigm that exhibits remarkable performance in monolingual scenarios.However, applying these methods to multilingual retrieval still encounters two primary challenges,…

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Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and attention mechanism are two main approaches used in recent scene text recognition works. Compared with attention-based methods, CTC decoder has a much shorter inference time, yet a lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Wenyang Hu , Xiaocong Cai , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi , Zhiping Lin

Foundational vision models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have achieved significant breakthroughs through extensive pre-training on large-scale visual datasets. Despite their general success, these models may fall short in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ke Zhou , Zhongwei Qiu , Dongmei Fu

Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shiyao Yu , Zi-An Wang , Kangning Yin , Zheng Tian , Mingyuan Zhang , Weixin Si , Shihao Zou

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

Text-to-video retrieval systems have recently made significant progress by utilizing pre-trained models trained on large-scale image-text pairs. However, most of the latest methods primarily focus on the video modality while disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Sarah Ibrahimi , Xiaohang Sun , Pichao Wang , Amanmeet Garg , Ashutosh Sanan , Mohamed Omar

Micro-gesture recognition (MGR) is challenging due to subtle inter-class variations. Existing methods rely on category-level supervision, which is insufficient for capturing subtle and localized motion differences. Thus, this paper proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jinsheng Wei , Zhaodi Xu , Guanming Lu , Haoyu Chen , Jingjie Yan

We consider the problem of composed image retrieval that takes an input query consisting of an image and a modification text indicating the desired changes to be made on the image and retrieves images that match these changes. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Prateksha Udhayanan , Srikrishna Karanam , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image and text retrieval. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) trains two neural networks in contrastive manner to align their image and text embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Kwun Ho Ngan , Saman Sadeghi Afgeh , Joe Townsend , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Since annotating medical images for segmentation tasks commonly incurs expensive costs, it is highly desirable to design an annotation-efficient method to alleviate the annotation burden. Recently, contrastive learning has exhibited a great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yixuan Wu , Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Yiheng Zhu , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has been widely applied to text classification tasks due to its ability to generate self-supervised signals from unlabeled data, thus facilitating model training. However, existing GCL-based text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Wei Ai , Jianbin Li , Ze Wang , Jiayi Du , Tao Meng , Yuntao Shou , Keqin Li

Cross-modal video-text retrieval, a challenging task in the field of vision and language, aims at retrieving corresponding instance giving sample from either modality. Existing approaches for this task all focus on how to design encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Rui Zhao , Kecheng Zheng , Zheng-Jun Zha , Hongtao Xie , Jiebo Luo

Cross-modal contrastive learning has led the recent advances in multimodal retrieval with its simplicity and effectiveness. In this work, however, we reveal that cross-modal contrastive learning suffers from incorrect normalization of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Yookoon Park , Mahmoud Azab , Bo Xiong , Seungwhan Moon , Florian Metze , Gourab Kundu , Kirmani Ahmed

Video-Language Pre-training models have recently significantly improved various multi-modal downstream tasks. Previous dominant works mainly adopt contrastive learning to achieve global feature alignment across modalities. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Fan Ma , Xiaojie Jin , Heng Wang , Jingjia Huang , Linchao Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Yi Yang

Multimodalities provide promising performance than unimodality in most tasks. However, learning the semantic of the representations from multimodalities efficiently is extremely challenging. To tackle this, we propose the Transformer based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Wubo Li , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Graph clustering discovers groups or communities within networks. Deep learning methods such as autoencoders (AE) extract effective clustering and downstream representations but cannot incorporate rich structural information. While Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Marius Portmann , Shekhar S. Chandra

Multi-modal recommender system focuses on utilizing rich modal information ( i.e., images and textual descriptions) of items to improve recommendation performance. The current methods have achieved remarkable success with the powerful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shouxing Ma , Yawen Zeng , Shiqing Wu , Guandong Xu

Modern supervised semantic segmentation methods are usually finetuned based on the supervised or self-supervised models pre-trained on ImageNet. Recent work shows that transferring the knowledge from CLIP to semantic segmentation via prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

Recent advancements in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have significantly enhanced the visual quality of the generated videos. However, even recent T2V models find it challenging to follow text descriptions accurately, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jialu Li , Shoubin Yu , Han Lin , Jaemin Cho , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu