ELIP: Enhanced Visual-Language Foundation Models for Image Retrieval

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Autores principales: Zhan, Guanqi, Liu, Yuanpei, Han, Kai, Xie, Weidi, Zisserman, Andrew
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zhan, Guanqi
Liu, Yuanpei
Han, Kai
Xie, Weidi
Zisserman, Andrew
author_facet Zhan, Guanqi
Liu, Yuanpei
Han, Kai
Xie, Weidi
Zisserman, Andrew
contents The objective in this paper is to improve the performance of text-to-image retrieval. To this end, we introduce a new framework that can boost the performance of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, so that they can be used for text-to-image re-ranking. The approach, Enhanced Language-Image Pre-training (ELIP), uses the text query, via a simple MLP mapping network, to predict a set of visual prompts to condition the ViT image encoding. ELIP can easily be applied to the commonly used CLIP, SigLIP and BLIP-2 networks. To train the architecture with limited computing resources, we develop a 'student friendly' best practice, involving global hard sample mining, and curation of a large-scale dataset. On the evaluation side, we set up two new out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarks, Occluded COCO and ImageNet-R, to assess the zero-shot generalisation of the models to different domains. The results demonstrate that ELIP significantly boosts CLIP/SigLIP/SigLIP-2 text-to-image retrieval performance and outperforms BLIP-2 on several benchmarks, as well as providing an easy means to adapt to OOD datasets.
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spellingShingle ELIP: Enhanced Visual-Language Foundation Models for Image Retrieval
Zhan, Guanqi
Liu, Yuanpei
Han, Kai
Xie, Weidi
Zisserman, Andrew
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The objective in this paper is to improve the performance of text-to-image retrieval. To this end, we introduce a new framework that can boost the performance of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, so that they can be used for text-to-image re-ranking. The approach, Enhanced Language-Image Pre-training (ELIP), uses the text query, via a simple MLP mapping network, to predict a set of visual prompts to condition the ViT image encoding. ELIP can easily be applied to the commonly used CLIP, SigLIP and BLIP-2 networks. To train the architecture with limited computing resources, we develop a 'student friendly' best practice, involving global hard sample mining, and curation of a large-scale dataset. On the evaluation side, we set up two new out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarks, Occluded COCO and ImageNet-R, to assess the zero-shot generalisation of the models to different domains. The results demonstrate that ELIP significantly boosts CLIP/SigLIP/SigLIP-2 text-to-image retrieval performance and outperforms BLIP-2 on several benchmarks, as well as providing an easy means to adapt to OOD datasets.
title ELIP: Enhanced Visual-Language Foundation Models for Image Retrieval
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15682