Boosting Cross-Modal Retrieval With MVSE++ and Reciprocal Neighbors

Autor: Wei Wei, Mengmeng Jiang, Xiangnan Zhang, Heng Liu, Chunna Tian
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 84642-84651 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2992187
Popis: In this paper, we propose to boost the cross-modal retrieval through mutually aligning images and captions on the aspects of both features and relationships. First, we propose a multi-feature based visual-semantic embedding (MVSE++) space to retrieve the candidates in another modality, which provides a more comprehensive representation of the visual content of objects and scene context in images. Thus, we have more potential to find a more accurate and detailed caption for the image. However, captioning concentrates the image contents by semantic description. The cross-modal neighboring relationships start from the visual and semantic sides are asymmetric. To retrieve a better cross-modal neighbor, we propose to re-rank the initially retrieved candidates according to the ${k}$ nearest reciprocal neighbors in MVSE++ space. The method is evaluated on the benchmark datasets of MSCOCO and Flickr30K with standard metrics. We achieve highe accuracy in caption retrieval and image retrieval at both R@1 and R@10.
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