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The widespread integration of cameras in hand-held and head-worn devices as well as the ability to share content online enables a large and diverse visual capture of the world that millions of users build up collectively every day. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury , Mateusz Malinowski , Andreas Bulling , Mario Fritz

Image retrieval remains a challenging task due to the complex interaction between human visual perception, memory, and computational processes. Current image search engines often struggle to efficiently retrieve images based on natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Abraham Itzhak Weinberg

Along with the rapid development of information technology, the amount of information generated at a given time far exceeds human's ability to organize, search, and manipulate without the help of automatic systems. Now a days so many tools…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , Anjali Mahajan

Knowing how to construct text-based Search Queries (SQs) for use in Search Engines (SEs) such as Google or Wikipedia has become a fundamental skill. Though much data are available through such SEs, most structured datasets live outside…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Leonardo Christino , Martha D. Ferreira , Fernando V. Paulovich

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

With the rise in popularity of social media, images accompanied by contextual text form a huge section of the web. However, search and retrieval of documents are still largely dependent on solely textual cues. Although visual cues have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury , Niket Tandon , Gerhard Weikum

Creating an intelligent search and retrieval system for artwork images, particularly paintings, is crucial for documenting cultural heritage, fostering wider public engagement, and advancing artistic analysis and interpretation.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yan Gong , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

Whole-Slide Images (WSIs) have revolutionized medical analysis by presenting high-resolution images of the whole tissue slide. Despite avoiding the physical storage of the slides, WSIs require considerable data volume, which makes the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yu Mao , Jun Wang , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

Recently, the Metaverse is becoming increasingly attractive, with millions of users accessing the many available virtual worlds. However, how do users find the one Metaverse which best fits their current interests? So far, the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Ali Abdari , Alex Falcon , Giuseppe Serra

We introduce the task of open-vocabulary visual instance search (OVIS). Given an arbitrary textual search query, Open-vocabulary Visual Instance Search (OVIS) aims to return a ranked list of visual instances, i.e., image patches, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sheng Liu , Kevin Lin , Lijuan Wang , Junsong Yuan , Zicheng Liu

Multi-modal retrieval becomes increasingly popular in practice. However, the existing retrievers are mostly text-oriented, which lack the capability to process visual information. Despite the presence of vision-language models like CLIP,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Junjie Zhou , Zheng Liu , Shitao Xiao , Bo Zhao , Yongping Xiong

As video becomes increasingly central to information dissemination and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) continue to advance, evaluating video retrieval has become increasingly important. In realistic search scenarios, this requires…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qijie You , Hao Liang , Mingrui Chen , Bohan Zeng , Meiyi Qiang , Zhenhao Wong , Wentao Zhang

We introduce Semantic Parsing in Contextual Environments (SPICE), a task designed to enhance artificial agents' contextual awareness by integrating multimodal inputs with prior contexts. SPICE goes beyond traditional semantic parsing by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jordan Voas , Raymond Mooney , David Harwath

Image-based artistic rendering can synthesize a variety of expressive styles using algorithmic image filtering. In contrast to deep learning-based methods, these heuristics-based filtering techniques can operate on high-resolution images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Winfried Lötzsch , Max Reimann , Martin Büssemeyer , Amir Semmo , Jürgen Döllner , Matthias Trapp

Modern information querying systems are progressively incorporating multimodal inputs like vision and audio. However, the integration of gaze -- a modality deeply linked to user intent and increasingly accessible via gaze-tracking wearables…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zeyu Wang , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang , Yuchen Yao , Kun Yan , Yuhan Wang , Lei Ji , Xuhai Xu , Chun Yu

AI is transforming pharmaceutical search, where traditional systems struggle with multimodal content and manual curation. Finder is a scalable AI-powered framework that unifies retrieval across text, images, audio, and video using hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Suyash Mishra , Srikanth Patil , Satyanarayan Pati , Sagar Sahu , Baddu Narendra

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

In this paper, we propose a multi-modal search engine for interior design that combines visual and textual queries. The goal of our engine is to retrieve interior objects, e.g. furniture or wall clocks, that share visual and aesthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ivona Tautkute , Aleksandra Możejko , Wojciech Stokowiec , Tomasz Trzciński , Łukasz Brocki , Krzysztof Marasek

Visible-infrared person re-identification (VIReID) retrieves pedestrian images with the same identity across different modalities. Existing methods learn visual content solely from images, lacking the capability to sense high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Neng Dong , Shuanglin Yan , Liyan Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Multimodal creative assistants decompose user goals and route tasks to subagents for layout, styling, retrieval, and generation. Retrieval quality is pivotal, yet failures can arise at several stages: understanding user intent, choosing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tushar Vatsa , Vibha Belavadi , Priya Shanmugasundaram , Suhas Suresha , Dewang Sultania