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MINER: Multi-crop INference-time Enhancement for Rare-Object Retrieval with Frozen Dual Encoders
Abdulmalik Alquwayfili, Faisal AlMeshal, Jumanah Almajnouni +2
Text-to-image retrieval with frozen dual encoders degrades when the query names a small, visually subordinate object in a cluttered scene: a single global image embedding underrepr…
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LARE: Low-Attention Region Encoding for Text-Image Retrieval
Abdulmalik Alquwayfili, Faisal Almeshal, Jumanah Almajnouni +8
Image retrieval in crowded scenes is particularly challenging due to the salience bias of conventional visual encoders, which tend to focus on dominant objects while neglecting low…