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20192026
most citedImproved Embeddings with Easy Positive Triplet Mining

7 citations · 22 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Will It Zero-Shot?: Predicting Zero-Shot Classification Performance For Arbitrary Queries

Kevin Robbins, Xiaotong Liu, Yu Wu +4

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they w…

cs.CV2025

QuARI: Query Adaptive Retrieval Improvement

Eric Xing, Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless +1

Massive-scale pretraining has made vision-language models increasingly popular for image-to-image and text-to-image retrieval across a broad collection of domains. However, these m…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

ConText-CIR: Learning from Concepts in Text for Composed Image Retrieval

Eric Xing, Pranavi Kolouju, Robert Pless +2

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image specified by a query image and a relative text that describes a semantic modification to the query image. Ex…

cs.CV2025

good4cir: Generating Detailed Synthetic Captions for Composed Image Retrieval

Pranavi Kolouju, Eric Xing, Robert Pless +2

Composed image retrieval (CIR) enables users to search images using a reference image combined with textual modifications. Recent advances in vision-language models have improved C…

cs.HC2024

Design and Evaluation of Camera-Centric Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications

Abby Stylianou, Michelle Brachman, Albatool Wazzan +2

The data that underlies automated methods in computer vision and machine learning, such as image retrieval and fine-grained recognition, often comes from crowdsourcing. In contexts…

cs.CV2023

Vision-Language Pseudo-Labels for Single-Positive Multi-Label Learning

Xin Xing, Zhexiao Xiong, Abby Stylianou +3

This paper presents a novel approach to Single-Positive Multi-label Learning. In general multi-label learning, a model learns to predict multiple labels or categories for a single…

cs.CV2021

What Does TERRA-REF's High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community?

David LeBauer, Max Burnette, Noah Fahlgren +3

A core objective of the TERRA-REF project was to generate an open-access reference dataset for the evaluation of sensing technologies to study plants under field conditions. The TE…

q-bio.QM2021

Classification and Visualization of Genotype x Phenotype Interactions in Biomass Sorghum

Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless, Nadia Shakoor +1

We introduce a simple approach to understanding the relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or groups of related SNPs, and the phenotypes they control. The pip…

cs.CV2021

Multi-resolution Outlier Pooling for Sorghum Classification

Chao Ren, Justin Dulay, Gregory Rolwes +3

Automated high throughput plant phenotyping involves leveraging sensors, such as RGB, thermal and hyperspectral cameras (among others), to make large scale and rapid measurements o…

cs.CV2021★ 6 cited

The 2021 Hotel-ID to Combat Human Trafficking Competition Dataset

Rashmi Kamath, Gregory Rolwes, Samuel Black +1

Hotel recognition is an important task for human trafficking investigations since victims are often photographed in hotel rooms. Identifying these hotels is vital to trafficking in…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

Hard negative examples are hard, but useful

Hong Xuan, Abby Stylianou, Xiaotong Liu +1

Triplet loss is an extremely common approach to distance metric learning. Representations of images from the same class are optimized to be mapped closer together in an embedding s…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

TraffickCam: Explainable Image Matching For Sex Trafficking Investigations

Abby Stylianou, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless

Investigations of sex trafficking sometimes have access to photographs of victims in hotel rooms. These images directly link victims to places, which can help verify where victims…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Visualizing How Embeddings Generalize

Xiaotong Liu, Hong Xuan, Zeyu Zhang +2

Deep metric learning is often used to learn an embedding function that captures the semantic differences within a dataset. A key factor in many problem domains is how this embeddin…

cs.CV2019★ 7 cited

Improved Embeddings with Easy Positive Triplet Mining

Hong Xuan, Abby Stylianou, Robert Pless

Deep metric learning seeks to define an embedding where semantically similar images are embedded to nearby locations, and semantically dissimilar images are embedded to distant loc…

cs.CV2019

Hotels-50K: A Global Hotel Recognition Dataset

Abby Stylianou, Hong Xuan, Maya Shende +3

Recognizing a hotel from an image of a hotel room is important for human trafficking investigations. Images directly link victims to places and can help verify where victims have b…

cs.CV2019

Visualizing Deep Similarity Networks

Abby Stylianou, Richard Souvenir, Robert Pless

For convolutional neural network models that optimize an image embedding, we propose a method to highlight the regions of images that contribute most to pairwise similarity. This w…