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Modality-Aware Triplet Hard Mining for Zero-shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
Zongheng Huang, Yifan Sun, Chuchu Han, Changxin Gao, Nong Sang
This paper tackles the Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) problem from the viewpoint of cross-modality metric learning. This task has two characteristics: 1) the zero-shot setting requires a metric space with good within-class compactness and the between-class discrepancy for recognizing the novel classes and 2) the sketch query and the photo gallery are in different modalities. The metric learning viewpoint benefits ZS-SBIR from two aspects. First, it facilitates improvement through recent good practices in deep metric learning (DML). By combining two fundamental learning approaches in DML, e.g., classification training and pairwise training, we set up a strong baseline for ZS-SBIR. Without bells and whistles, this baseline achieves competitive retrieval accuracy. Second, it provides an insight that properly suppressing the modality gap is critical. To this end, we design a novel method named Modality-Aware Triplet Hard Mining (MATHM). MATHM enhances the baseline with three types of pairwise learning, e.g., a cross-modality sample pair, a within-modality sample pair, and their combination.\We also design an adaptive weighting method to balance these three components during training dynamically. Experimental results confirm that MATHM brings another round of significant improvement based on the strong baseline and sets up new state-of-the-art performance. For example, on the TU-Berlin dataset, we achieve 47.88+2.94% mAP@all and 58.28+2.34% Prec@100. Code will be publicly available at: https://github.com/huangzongheng/MATHM.
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