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Textual descriptions for multimodal inputs entail recurrent refinement of queries to produce relevant output images. Despite efforts to address challenges such as scaling model size and data volume, the cost associated with pre-training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Amit Kumar Jaiswal , Haiming Liu , Ingo Frommholz

Retrieving adverbs that describe an action in a video poses a crucial step towards fine-grained video understanding. We propose a framework for video-to-adverb retrieval (and vice versa) that aligns video embeddings with their matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Thomas Hummel , Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

We present Motion 3-to-4, a feed-forward framework for synthesising high-quality 4D dynamic objects from a single monocular video and an optional 3D reference mesh. While recent advances have significantly improved 2D, video, and 3D content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hongyuan Chen , Xingyu Chen , Youjia Zhang , Zexiang Xu , Anpei Chen

Text-based person retrieval (TPR) is a challenging task that involves retrieving a specific individual based on a textual description. Despite considerable efforts to bridge the gap between vision and language, the significant differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yiwei Ma , Xiaoshuai Sun , Jiayi Ji , Guannan Jiang , Weilin Zhuang , Rongrong Ji

Content creators often use music to enhance their videos, from soundtracks in movies to background music in video blogs and social media content. However, identifying the best music for a video can be a difficult and time-consuming task. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shanti Stewart , Gouthaman KV , Lie Lu , Andrea Fanelli

Recent advances in representation learning have demonstrated an ability to represent information from different modalities such as video, text, and audio in a single high-level embedding vector. In this work we present a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Alexander H. Liu , SouYoung Jin , Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Andrew Rouditchenko , Aude Oliva , James Glass

In the real world, where information is abundant and diverse across different modalities, understanding and utilizing various data types to improve retrieval systems is a key focus of research. Multimodal composite retrieval integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Suyan Li , Fuxiang Huang , Lei Zhang

Text-video retrieval is a challenging task that aims to search relevant video contents based on natural language descriptions. The key to this problem is to measure text-video similarities in a joint embedding space. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Xiaohan Wang , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Real-world decision-making often begins with identifying which modality contains the most relevant information for a given query. While recent multimodal models have made impressive progress in processing diverse inputs, it remains unclear…

Multi-modal representation learning has become a pivotal area in artificial intelligence, enabling the integration of diverse modalities such as vision, text, and audio to solve complex problems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sangyeon Cho , Jangyeong Jeon , Mingi Kim , Junyeong Kim

In this paper, we introduce a new embedding model called M3-Embedding, which is distinguished for its versatility in \textit{Multi-Linguality}, \textit{Multi-Functionality}, and \textit{Multi-Granularity}. It provides a uniform support for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianlv Chen , Shitao Xiao , Peitian Zhang , Kun Luo , Defu Lian , Zheng Liu

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

Contrastive learning allows us to flexibly define powerful losses by contrasting positive pairs from sets of negative samples. Recently, the principle has also been used to learn cross-modal embeddings for video and text, yet without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yi Zhu , Peter Gehler , Thomas Brox

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) excel at video understanding tasks where outputs are textual, such as Video Question Answering and Video Captioning. However, they underperform specialized embedding-based models in Retrieval tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rohit Gupta , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Fan Fei , Sheng Liu , Son Tran , Mubarak Shah

Nowadays, we have witnessed the early progress on learning the association between voice and face automatically, which brings a new wave of studies to the computer vision community. However, most of the prior arts along this line (a) merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Peisong Wen , Qianqian Xu , Yangbangyan Jiang , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Qingming Huang

Visual-semantic embedding aims to learn a joint embedding space where related video and sentence instances are located close to each other. Most existing methods put instances in a single embedding space. However, they struggle to embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Huy Manh Nguyen , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown impressive performance in aligning visual and textual representations. Recent studies have extended this paradigm to 3D vision to improve scene understanding for autonomous driving. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ximeng Tao , Dimitar Filev , Gaurav Pandey

The task of retrieving video content relevant to natural language queries plays a critical role in effectively handling internet-scale datasets. Most of the existing methods for this caption-to-video retrieval problem do not fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Valentin Gabeur , Chen Sun , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

One central question for video action recognition is how to model motion. In this paper, we present hierarchical contrastive motion learning, a new self-supervised learning framework to extract effective motion representations from raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xitong Yang , Xiaodong Yang , Sifei Liu , Deqing Sun , Larry Davis , Jan Kautz

Human pose estimation in videos has long been a compelling yet challenging task within the realm of computer vision. Nevertheless, this task remains difficult because of the complex video scenes, such as video defocus and self-occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sifan Wu , Haipeng Chen , Yifang Yin , Sihao Hu , Runyang Feng , Yingying Jiao , Ziqi Yang , Zhenguang Liu