3 papers
cs.IR2026
ADaFuSE: Adaptive Diffusion-generated Image and Text Fusion for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval
Zhuocheng Zhang, Xingwu Zhang, Kangheng Liang +3
Recent advances in interactive text-to-image retrieval (I-TIR) use diffusion models to bridge the modality gap between the textual information need and the images to be searched, r…
cs.IR2025
Diffusion Augmented Retrieval: A Training-Free Approach to Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval
Zijun Long, Kangheng Liang, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa +2
Interactive Text-to-image retrieval (I-TIR) is an important enabler for a wide range of state-of-the-art services in domains such as e-commerce and education. However, current meth…
cs.CV2024
CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion
Zijun Long, George Killick, Lipeng Zhuang +3
State-of-the-art pre-trained image models predominantly adopt a two-stage approach: initial unsupervised pre-training on large-scale datasets followed by task-specific fine-tuning…