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Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…

This study introduces a novel multimodal food recognition framework that effectively combines visual and textual modalities to enhance classification accuracy and robustness. The proposed approach employs a dynamic multimodal fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Prateek Mittal , Puneet Goyal , Joohi Chauhan

Over the past decade, significant advances have been made in the field of image search for e-commerce applications. Traditional image-to-image retrieval models, which focus solely on image details such as texture, tend to overlook useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Chang Liu , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Han Yu

Accurate and efficient product classification is significant for E-commerce applications, as it enables various downstream tasks such as recommendation, retrieval, and pricing. Items often contain textual and visual information, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Varnith Chordia , Vijay Kumar BG

In large scale e-commerce marketplaces, duplicate product listings frequently cause consumer confusion and operational inefficiencies, degrading trust on the platform and increasing costs. Traditional keyword-based search methodologies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Aysenur Kulunk , Berk Taskin , M. Furkan Eseoglu , H. Bahadir Sahin

This paper proposes a cross-modal retrieval system that leverages on image and text encoding. Most multimodal architectures employ separate networks for each modality to capture the semantic relationship between them. However, in our work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Alessandro Calefati , Ignazio Gallo

Large-scale e-commerce search must surface a broad set of items from a vast catalog, ranging from bestselling products to new, trending, or seasonal items. Modern systems therefore rely on multiple specialized retrieval channels to surface…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Aditya Gaydhani , Guangyue Xu , Dhanush Kamath , Ankit Singh , Alex Li

Fusing and ranking multimodal information remains always a challenging task. A robust decision-level fusion method should not only be dynamically adaptive for assigning weights to each representation but also incorporate inter-relationships…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Dimitris Gkoumas , Dawei Sogn

This paper considers the task of matching images and sentences by learning a visual-textual embedding space for cross-modal retrieval. Finding such a space is a challenging task since the features and representations of text and image are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Hadi Abdi Khojasteh , Ebrahim Ansari , Parvin Razzaghi , Akbar Karimi

In this paper we tackle the cross-modal video retrieval problem and, more specifically, we focus on text-to-video retrieval. We investigate how to optimally combine multiple diverse textual and visual features into feature pairs that lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Damianos Galanopoulos , Vasileios Mezaris

With the rapid progression of deep learning technologies, multi-modality image fusion has become increasingly prevalent in object detection tasks. Despite its popularity, the inherent disparities in how different sources depict scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xingyuan Li , Yang Zou , Jinyuan Liu , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

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

Multi-modal approaches employ data from multiple input streams such as textual and visual domains. Deep neural networks have been successfully employed for these approaches. In this paper, we present a novel multi-modal approach that fuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Ignazio Gallo , Alessandro Calefati , Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Kamran Janjua

Current e-commerce multimodal retrieval systems face two key limitations: they optimize for specific tasks with fixed modality pairings, and lack comprehensive benchmarks for evaluating unified retrieval approaches. To address these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zihan Liang , Yufei Ma , ZhiPeng Qian , Huangyu Dai , Zihan Wang , Ben Chen , Chenyi Lei , Yuqing Ding , Han Li

Current state-of-the-art approaches to cross-modal retrieval process text and visual input jointly, relying on Transformer-based architectures with cross-attention mechanisms that attend over all words and objects in an image. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Gregor Geigle , Jonas Pfeiffer , Nils Reimers , Ivan Vulić , Iryna Gurevych

Multilingual (or cross-lingual) embeddings represent several languages in a unique vector space. Using a common embedding space enables for a shared semantic between words from different languages. In this paper, we propose to embed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Maxime Portaz , Hicham Randrianarivo , Adrien Nivaggioli , Estelle Maudet , Christophe Servan , Sylvain Peyronnet

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

Image-text matching aims to find matched cross-modal pairs accurately. While current methods often rely on projecting cross-modal features into a common embedding space, they frequently suffer from imbalanced feature representations across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zuhui Wang , Yunting Yin , I. V. Ramakrishnan

Advanced image fusion methods are devoted to generating the fusion results by aggregating the complementary information conveyed by the source images. However, the difference in the source-specific manifestation of the imaged scene content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li , Xi Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

In this paper, we study the cross-modal image retrieval, where the inputs contain a source image plus some text that describes certain modifications to this image and the desired image. Prior work usually uses a three-stage strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chunbin Gu , Jiajun Bu , Xixi Zhou , Chengwei Yao , Dongfang Ma , Zhi Yu , Xifeng Yan