Look Beyond Saliency: Low-Attention Guided Dual Encoding for Video Semantic Search

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Auteurs principaux: Aljehrai, Faisal, Alkhrashi, Mohammed A., Almuhrij, Alreem, Abuhimed, Sarah, Aldossary, Noorh, Aldwyish, Abdullah, Aljadaany, Raied, Alamri, Huda, Khan, Muhammad Kamran J
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author Aljehrai, Faisal
Alkhrashi, Mohammed A.
Almuhrij, Alreem
Abuhimed, Sarah
Aldossary, Noorh
Aldwyish, Abdullah
Aljadaany, Raied
Alamri, Huda
Khan, Muhammad Kamran J
author_facet Aljehrai, Faisal
Alkhrashi, Mohammed A.
Almuhrij, Alreem
Abuhimed, Sarah
Aldossary, Noorh
Aldwyish, Abdullah
Aljadaany, Raied
Alamri, Huda
Khan, Muhammad Kamran J
contents Video semantic search in densely crowded scenes remains a challenging task due to visual encoders tendency to prioritize salient foreground regions while neglecting contextually important, background areas. We propose an Inverse Attention Embedding mechanism that explicitly captures and highlights these overlooked regions. By combining inverse attention embeddings with traditional visual embeddings, our method significantly enhances semantic retrieval performance without additional training. Initial experiments and ablation studies demonstrate promising improvements over existing approaches in recall for video semantic search in crowded environments.
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spellingShingle Look Beyond Saliency: Low-Attention Guided Dual Encoding for Video Semantic Search
Aljehrai, Faisal
Alkhrashi, Mohammed A.
Almuhrij, Alreem
Abuhimed, Sarah
Aldossary, Noorh
Aldwyish, Abdullah
Aljadaany, Raied
Alamri, Huda
Khan, Muhammad Kamran J
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Video semantic search in densely crowded scenes remains a challenging task due to visual encoders tendency to prioritize salient foreground regions while neglecting contextually important, background areas. We propose an Inverse Attention Embedding mechanism that explicitly captures and highlights these overlooked regions. By combining inverse attention embeddings with traditional visual embeddings, our method significantly enhances semantic retrieval performance without additional training. Initial experiments and ablation studies demonstrate promising improvements over existing approaches in recall for video semantic search in crowded environments.
title Look Beyond Saliency: Low-Attention Guided Dual Encoding for Video Semantic Search
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06229