Image-text matching is a vital yet challenging task in the field of multimedia analysis. Over the past decades, great efforts have been made to bridge the semantic gap between the visual and textual modalities. Despite the significance and value, most prior work is still confronted with a multi-view description challenge, i.e., how to align an image to multiple textual descriptions with semantic diversity. Toward this end, we present a novel context-aware multiview summarization network to summarize context-enhanced visual region information from multiple views. To be more specific, we design an adaptive gating self-attention module to extract representations of visual regions and words. By controlling the internal information flow, we are able to adaptively capture context information. Afterwards, we introduce a summarization module with a diversity regularization to aggregate region-level features into image-level ones from different perspectives. Ultimately, we devise a multi-view matching scheme to match multi-view image features with corresponding text ones. To justify our work, we have conducted extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets, i.e., Flickr30K and MS-COCO, which demonstrates the superiority of our model as compared to several state-of-the-art baselines. CCS CONCEPTS • Information systems → Multimedia and multimodal retrieval; Novelty in information retrieval.
We investigate composed image retrieval with text feedback. Users gradually look for the target of interest by moving from coarse to fine-grained feedback. However, existing methods merely focus on the latter, i.e., fine-grained search, by harnessing positive and negative pairs during training. This pair-based paradigm only considers the oneto-one distance between a pair of specific points, which is not aligned with the one-to-many coarse-grained retrieval process and compromises the recall rate.In an attempt to fill this gap, we introduce a unified learning approach to simultaneously modeling the coarseand fine-grained retrieval by considering the multi-grained uncertainty. The key idea underpinning the proposed method is to integrate fine-and coarse-grained retrieval as matching data points with small and large fluctuations, respectively. Specifically, our method contains two modules: uncertainty modeling and uncertainty regularization.(1) The uncertainty modeling simulates the multi-grained queries by introducing identically distributed fluctuations in the feature space. (2) Based on the uncertainty modeling, we further introduce uncertainty regularization to adapt the matching objective according to the fluctuation range. Compared with existing methods, the proposed strategy explicitly prevents the model from pushing away potential candidates in the early stage, and thus improves the recall rate. On the three public datasets, i.e., FashionIQ, Fashion200k, and Shoes, the proposed method has achieved +4.03%, + 3.38%, and + 2.40% Recall@50 accuracy over a strong baseline, respectively.
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