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We scrutinise an important observation plaguing scene-level sketch research -- that a significant portion of scene sketches are "partial". A quick pilot study reveals: (i) a scene sketch does not necessarily contain all objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Aneeshan Sain , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Remote sensing (RS) cross-modal text-image retrieval has attracted extensive attention for its advantages of flexible input and efficient query. However, traditional methods ignore the characteristics of multi-scale and redundant targets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zhiqiang Yuan , Wenkai Zhang , Kun Fu , Xuan Li , Chubo Deng , Hongqi Wang , Xian Sun

We study the use of amortized optimization to predict optimal transport (OT) maps from the input measures, which we call Meta OT. This helps repeatedly solve similar OT problems between different measures by leveraging the knowledge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Brandon Amos , Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Ievgen Redko

Text-motion retrieval aims to learn a semantically aligned latent space between natural language descriptions and 3D human motion skeleton sequences, enabling bidirectional search across the two modalities. Most existing methods use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yao Zhang , Zhuchenyang Liu , Yanlan He , Thomas Ploetz , Yu Xiao

We study a novel multimodal-learning problem, which we call text matching: given an image containing a single-line text and a candidate text transcription, the goal is to assess whether the text represented in the image corresponds to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Valentina Arrigoni , Luisa Repele , Dario Marino Saccavino

Recently, numbers of works shows that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) can be improved to a certain extent with using visual information. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 ZhenHao Tang , XiaoBing Zhang , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

Cross-city transfer improves prediction in label-scarce cities by leveraging labeled data from other cities, but it becomes challenging when cities adopt incompatible partitions and no ground-truth region correspondences exist. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuyao Wang , Min Yang , Meng Chen , Weiming Huang , Yilong Yin , Yongshun Gong

Multimodal learning has shown promise in medical imaging, combining complementary modalities like images and text. Vision-language models (VLMs) capture rich diagnostic cues but often require large paired datasets and prompt- or text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Banafsheh Karimian , Giulia Avanzato , Soufian Belharbi , Alexis Guichemerre , Luke McCaffrey , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

In this paper, we propose a new approach to learn multimodal multilingual embeddings for matching images and their relevant captions in two languages. We combine two existing objective functions to make images and captions close in a joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Alireza Mohammadshahi , Remi Lebret , Karl Aberer

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Zixuan Cang , Yanxiang Zhao

Despite the recent developments in the field of cross-modal retrieval, there has been less research focusing on low-resource languages due to the lack of manually annotated datasets. In this paper, we propose a noise-robust cross-lingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yabing Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Tianxiang Liang , Minsong Zhang , Rui Cai , Xun Wang

Existing text-driven infrared and visible image fusion approaches often rely on textual information at the sentence level, which can lead to semantic noise from redundant text and fail to fully exploit the deeper semantic value of textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenyu Shao , Hongbo Liu , Yunchuan Ma , Ruili Wang

For visual tracking, most of the traditional correlation filters (CF) based methods suffer from the bottleneck of feature redundancy and lack of motion information. In this paper, we design a novel tracking framework, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Shuai Bai , Zhiqun He , Ting-Bing Xu , Zheng Zhu , Yuan Dong , Hongliang Bai

With the novel and fast advances in the area of deep neural networks, several challenging image-based tasks have been recently approached by researchers in pattern recognition and computer vision. In this paper, we address one of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Jônatas Wehrmann , Anderson Mattjie , Rodrigo C. Barros

End-to-end text image translation (TIT), which aims at translating the source language embedded in images to the target language, has attracted intensive attention in recent research. However, data sparsity limits the performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Cong Ma , Yaping Zhang , Mei Tu , Xu Han , Linghui Wu , Yang Zhao , Yu Zhou

We introduce COPT, a novel distance metric between graphs defined via an optimization routine, computing a coordinated pair of optimal transport maps simultaneously. This gives an unsupervised way to learn general-purpose graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihe Dong , Will Sawin

Contrastive Language and Image Pairing (CLIP), a transformative method in multimedia retrieval, typically trains two neural networks concurrently to generate joint embeddings for text and image pairs. However, when applied directly, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Konstantin Schall , Kai Uwe Barthel , Nico Hezel , Klaus Jung

Cross-modal alignment is a crucial task in multimodal learning aimed at achieving semantic consistency between vision and language. This requires that image-text pairs exhibit similar semantics. Traditional algorithms pursue embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiang Ma , Lexin Fang , Litian Xu , Caiming Zhang

As an essential operation of legal retrieval, legal case matching plays a central role in intelligent legal systems. This task has a high demand on the explainability of matching results because of its critical impacts on downstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Weijie Yu , Zhongxiang Sun , Jun Xu , Zhenhua Dong , Xu Chen , Hongteng Xu , Ji-Rong Wen

The image-text retrieval task aims to retrieve relevant information from a given image or text. The main challenge is to unify multimodal representation and distinguish fine-grained differences across modalities, thereby finding similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang