Object-Aware Query Perturbation for Cross-Modal Image-Text Retrieval

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Hauptverfasser: Sogi, Naoya, Shibata, Takashi, Terao, Makoto
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author Sogi, Naoya
Shibata, Takashi
Terao, Makoto
author_facet Sogi, Naoya
Shibata, Takashi
Terao, Makoto
contents The pre-trained vision and language (V\&L) models have substantially improved the performance of cross-modal image-text retrieval. In general, however, V\&L models have limited retrieval performance for small objects because of the rough alignment between words and the small objects in the image. In contrast, it is known that human cognition is object-centric, and we pay more attention to important objects, even if they are small. To bridge this gap between the human cognition and the V\&L model's capability, we propose a cross-modal image-text retrieval framework based on ``object-aware query perturbation.'' The proposed method generates a key feature subspace of the detected objects and perturbs the corresponding queries using this subspace to improve the object awareness in the image. In our proposed method, object-aware cross-modal image-text retrieval is possible while keeping the rich expressive power and retrieval performance of existing V\&L models without additional fine-tuning. Comprehensive experiments on four public datasets show that our method outperforms conventional algorithms. Our code is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/NEC-N-SOGI/query-perturbation}.
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spellingShingle Object-Aware Query Perturbation for Cross-Modal Image-Text Retrieval
Sogi, Naoya
Shibata, Takashi
Terao, Makoto
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
The pre-trained vision and language (V\&L) models have substantially improved the performance of cross-modal image-text retrieval. In general, however, V\&L models have limited retrieval performance for small objects because of the rough alignment between words and the small objects in the image. In contrast, it is known that human cognition is object-centric, and we pay more attention to important objects, even if they are small. To bridge this gap between the human cognition and the V\&L model's capability, we propose a cross-modal image-text retrieval framework based on ``object-aware query perturbation.'' The proposed method generates a key feature subspace of the detected objects and perturbs the corresponding queries using this subspace to improve the object awareness in the image. In our proposed method, object-aware cross-modal image-text retrieval is possible while keeping the rich expressive power and retrieval performance of existing V\&L models without additional fine-tuning. Comprehensive experiments on four public datasets show that our method outperforms conventional algorithms. Our code is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/NEC-N-SOGI/query-perturbation}.
title Object-Aware Query Perturbation for Cross-Modal Image-Text Retrieval
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12346