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We propose a novel approach based on optimal transport (OT) for tackling the problem of highly mixed data in blind hyperspectral unmixing. Our method constrains the distribution of the estimated abundance matrix to resemble a targeted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 D. Doutsas , B. Figliuzzi

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric tool used to compare and align probability measures following the least effort principle. Despite its widespread use in machine learning (ML), OT problem still bears its computational burden,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Oliver Struckmeier , Ievgen Redko , Anton Mallasto , Karol Arndt , Markus Heinonen , Ville Kyrki

Image-text retrieval has become a fundamental component in intelligent multimedia systems; however, most existing vision-language models are optimized for highresource languages and remain suboptimal for low-resource settings such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Quoc-Khang Tran , Minh-Thien Nguyen , Nguyen-Khang Pham

Multimodal hate detection, which aims to identify harmful content online such as memes, is crucial for building a wholesome internet environment. Previous work has made enlightening exploration in detecting explicit hate remarks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Linhao Zhang , Li Jin , Xian Sun , Guangluan Xu , Zequn Zhang , Xiaoyu Li , Nayu Liu , Qing Liu , Shiyao Yan

In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 John Lee , Max Dabagia , Eva L. Dyer , Christopher J. Rozell

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool for measuring the distance between two defined probability distributions. In this paper, we develop a new manifold named the coupling matrix manifold (CMM), where each point on CMM can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Dai Shi , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , S. T. Boris Choy , Zhiyong Wang

End-to-end In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to convert text embedded within an image into a target language while preserving the original visual context, layout, and rendering style. However, existing IIMT benchmarks are largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiahao Lyu , Pei Fu , Zhenhang Li , Weichao Zeng , Shaojie Zhang , Jiahui Yang , Can Ma , Yu Zhou , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan

Multimodal Information Extraction (MIE) requires fusing text and visual cues from visually rich documents. While recent methods have advanced multimodal representation learning, most implicitly assume modality equivalence or treat…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yang Li , Yajiao Wang , Wenhao Hu , Zhixiong Zhang , Mengting Zhang

We address the problem of detecting and mapping all books in a collection of images to entries in a given book catalogue. Instead of performing independent retrieval for each book detected, we treat the image-text mapping problem as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Artemis Llabrés , Arka Ujjal Dey , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Ernest Valveny

Image-text matching is gaining a leading role among tasks involving the joint understanding of vision and language. In literature, this task is often used as a pre-training objective to forge architectures able to jointly deal with images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Nicola Messina , Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Fabrizio Falchi , Giuseppe Amato , Rita Cucchiara

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

The relations expressed in user queries are vital for cross-modal information retrieval. Relation-focused cross-modal retrieval aims to retrieve information that corresponds to these relations, enabling effective retrieval across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yan Gong , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

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…

Registration of longitudinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images assists disease monitoring and is essential in image fusion applications. Mouse retinal OCT images are often collected for longitudinal study of eye disease models such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Xin Tian , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Lindsay Nicholson , Alin Achim

The design of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is inspired by the structure of the human brain, and in turn, ANNs offer a potential means to interpret and understand brain signals. Existing methods primarily align brain signals with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-08 Yang Xiao , Wang Lu , Jie Ji , Ruimeng Ye , Gen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui

The abundance of multimodal data (e.g. social media posts) has inspired interest in cross-modal retrieval methods. Popular approaches rely on a variety of metric learning losses, which prescribe what the proximity of image and text should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

Regularized optimal transport (OT) is now increasingly used as a loss or as a matching layer in neural networks. Entropy-regularized OT can be computed using the Sinkhorn algorithm but it leads to fully-dense transportation plans, meaning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Tianlin Liu , Joan Puigcerver , Mathieu Blondel

Online map matching is a fundamental problem in location-based services, aiming to incrementally match trajectory data step-by-step onto a road network. However, existing methods fail to meet the needs for efficiency, robustness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Minxiao Chen , Haitao Yuan , Nan Jiang , Zhihan Zheng , Sai Wu , Ao Zhou , Shangguang Wang

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images sharing the same category across diverse domains without relying on labeled data. Prior approaches have typically decomposed the UCIR problem into two distinct tasks:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Bin Li , Ye Shi , Qian Yu , Jingya Wang

Although image captioning models have made significant advancements in recent years, the majority of them heavily depend on high-quality datasets containing paired images and texts which are costly to acquire. Previous works leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhiyue Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Fanrong Ma