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Similarity Reasoning and Filtration for Image-Text Matching

5 Jan 2021arXiv:2101.01368archive 2025-07-28

Haiwen Diao, Ying Zhang, Lin Ma, Huchuan Lu

Image-text matching plays a critical role in bridging the vision and language, and great progress has been made by exploiting the global alignment between image and sentence, or local alignments between regions and words. However, how to make the most of these alignments to infer more accurate matching scores is still underexplored. In this paper, we propose a novel Similarity Graph Reasoning and Attention Filtration (SGRAF) network for image-text matching. Specifically, the vector-based similarity representations are firstly learned to characterize the local and global alignments in a more comprehensive manner, and then the Similarity Graph Reasoning (SGR) module relying on one graph convolutional neural network is introduced to infer relation-aware similarities with both the local and global alignments. The Similarity Attention Filtration (SAF) module is further developed to integrate these alignments effectively by selectively attending on the significant and representative alignments and meanwhile casting aside the interferences of non-meaningful alignments. We demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method with achieving state-of-the-art performances on the Flickr30K and MSCOCO datasets, and the good interpretability of SGR and SAF modules with extensive qualitative experiments and analyses.

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Cross-Modal RetrievalImage RetrievalImage-text matchingSentenceSentence RetrievalText Matching

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 SGRAF Image-to-text R@1 57.8 #28 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 SGRAF Image-to-text R@10 91.6 #28 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 SGRAF Image-to-text R@5 84.9 #28 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 SGRAF Text-to-image R@1 41.9 #28 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 SGRAF Text-to-image R@10 81.3 #28 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 SGRAF Text-to-image R@5 70.7 #28 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k SGRAF Image-to-text R@1 77.8 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k SGRAF Image-to-text R@10 97.4 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k SGRAF Image-to-text R@5 94.1 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k SGRAF Text-to-image R@1 58.5 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k SGRAF Text-to-image R@10 88.8 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k SGRAF Text-to-image R@5 83.0 #17 of 27 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30K 1K test SGRAF R@1 58.5 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30K 1K test SGRAF R@10 88.8 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30K 1K test SGRAF R@5 83.0 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report

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