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Image Search With Text Feedback by Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

1 Jun 2020CVPR 2020 6archive 2025-07-28

Yanbei Chen, Shaogang Gong, Loris Bazzani

Image search with text feedback has promising impacts in various real-world applications, such as e-commerce and internet search. Given a reference image and text feedback from user, the goal is to retrieve images that not only resemble the input image, but also change certain aspects in accordance with the given text. This is a challenging task as it requires the synergistic understanding of both image and text. In this work, we tackle this task by a novel Visiolinguistic Attention Learning (VAL) framework. Specifically, we propose a composite transformer that can be seamlessly plugged in a CNN to selectively preserve and transform the visual features conditioned on language semantics. By inserting multiple composite transformers at varying depths, VAL is incentive to encapsulate the multi-granular visiolinguistic information, thus yielding an expressive representation for effective image search. We conduct comprehensive evaluation on three datasets: Fashion200k, Shoes and FashionIQ. Extensive experiments show our model exceeds existing approaches on all datasets, demonstrating consistent superiority in coping with various text feedbacks, including attribute-like and natural language descriptions.

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Attribute Deep Attention Image Retrieval Multimodal Deep Learning

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Task	Dataset	Model	Metric	Value	Rank at snapshot	Leaderboard	Report
Image Retrieval	Fashion IQ	VAL w/ GloVe	(Recall@10+Recall@50)/2	35.38	#21 of 22	Archive leaderboard	report

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