Continual Text-to-Video Retrieval (CTVR) is a challenging multimodal continual learning setting, where models must incrementally learn new semantic categories while maintaining accurate text-video alignment for previously learned ones, thus making it particularly prone to catastrophic forgetting. A key challenge in CTVR is feature drift, which manifests in two forms: intra-modal feature drift caused by continual learning within each modality, and non-cooperative feature drift across modalities that leads to modality misalignment. To mitigate these issues, we propose StructAlign, a structured cross-modal alignment method for CTVR. First, StructAlign introduces a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) geometry as a unified geometric prior to mitigate modality misalignment. Building upon this geometric prior, we design a cross-modal ETF alignment loss that aligns text and video features with category-level ETF prototypes, encouraging the learned representations to form an approximate simplex ETF geometry. In addition, to suppress intra-modal feature drift, we design a Cross-modal Relation Preserving loss, which leverages complementary modalities to preserve cross-modal similarity relations, providing stable relational supervision for feature updates. By jointly addressing non-cooperative feature drift across modalities and intra-modal feature drift, StructAlign effectively alleviates catastrophic forgetting in CTVR. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method shows competitive advantages over state-of-the-art continual retrieval approaches.

Illegal live-streaming identification, which aims to help live-streaming platforms immediately recognize the illegal behaviors in the live-streaming, such as selling precious and endangered animals, plays a crucial role in purifying the network environment. Traditionally, the live-streaming platform needs to employ some professionals to manually identify the potential illegal live-streaming. Specifically, the professional needs to search for related evidence from a large-scale knowledge database for evaluating whether a given live-streaming clip contains illegal behavior, which is time-consuming and laborious. To address this issue, in this work, we propose a multimodal evidence retrieval system, named OFAR, to facilitate the illegal live-streaming identification. OFAR consists of three modules: Query Encoder, Document Encoder, and MaxSim-based Contrastive Late Intersection. Both query encoder and document encoder are implemented with the advanced OFA encoder, which is pretrained on a large-scale multimodal dataset. In the last module, we introduce contrastive learning on the basis of the MaxiSim-based late intersection, to enhance the model's ability of query-document matching. The proposed framework achieves significant improvement on our industrial dataset TaoLive, demonstrating the advances of our scheme.

Cooking video captioning aims to generate the text instructions that describes the cooking procedures presented in the video. Current approaches tend to use large neural models or use more robust feature extractors to increase the expressive ability of features, ignoring the strong correlation between consecutive cooking steps in the video. However, it is intuitive that previous cooking steps can provide clues for the next cooking step. Specially, consecutive cooking steps tend to share the same ingredients. Therefore, accurate ingredients recognition can help to introduce more fine-grained information in captioning. To improve the performance of video procedural caption in cooking video, this paper proposes a framework that introduces ingredient recognition module which uses the copy mechanism to fuse the predicted ingredient information into the generated sentence. Moreover, we integrate the visual information of the previous step into the generation of the current step, and the visual information of the two steps together assist in the generation process. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of our propose framework and it achieves the promising performances on both YouCookII and Cooking-COIN datasets.

Image-text retrieval is a fundamental and crucial branch in information retrieval. Although much progress has been made in bridging vision and language, it remains challenging because of the difficult intra-modal reasoning and cross-modal alignment. Existing modality interaction methods have achieved impressive results on public datasets. However, they heavily rely on expert experience and empirical feedback towards the design of interaction patterns, therefore, lacking flexibility. To address these issues, we develop a novel modality interaction modeling network based upon the routing mechanism, which is the first unified and dynamic multimodal interaction framework towards image-text retrieval. In particular, we first design four types of cells as basic units to explore different levels of modality interactions, and then connect them in a dense strategy to construct a routing space. To endow the model with the capability of path decision, we integrate a dynamic router in each cell for pattern exploration. As the routers are conditioned on inputs, our model can dynamically learn different activated paths for different data. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets, i.e., Flickr30K and MS-COCO, verify the superiority of our model compared with several state-of-the-art baselines.

Recent years have witnessed a growing trend of fashion compatibility modeling, which scores the matching degree of the given outfit and then provides people with some dressing advice. Existing methods have primarily solved this problem by analyzing the discrete interaction among multiple complementary items. However, the fashion items would present certain occlusion and deformation when they are worn on the body. Therefore, the discrete item interaction cannot capture the fashion compatibility in a combined manner due to the neglect of a crucial factor: the overall try-on appearance. In light of this, we propose a multi-modal try-on-guided compatibility modeling scheme to jointly characterize the discrete interaction and try-on appearance of the outfit. In particular, we first propose a multi-modal try-on template generator to automatically generate a try-on template from the visual and textual information of the outfit, depicting the overall look of its composing fashion items. Then, we introduce a new compatibility modeling scheme which integrates the outfit try-on appearance into the traditional discrete item interaction modeling. To fulfill the proposal, we construct a large-scale real-world dataset from SSENSE, named FOTOS, consisting of 11,000 well-matched outfits and their corresponding realistic try-on images. Extensive experiments have demonstrated its superiority to state-of-the-arts.

With the increasing of multi-modal data on the internet, cross-modal retrieval has received a lot of attention in recent years. It aims to use one type of data as query and retrieve results of another type. For different modality data, how to reduce their heterogeneous property and preserve their local relationship are two main challenges. In this paper, we present a novel joint dictionary learning and semantic constrained latent subspace learning method for cross-modal retrieval~(JDSLC) to deal with above two issues. In this unified framework, samples from different modalities are encoded by their corresponding dictionaries to reduce the semantic gap. In the meantime, we learn modality-specific projection matrices to map the sparse coefficients into the shared latent subspace. Meanwhile, we impose a novel cross-modal similarity constraint to make the representations of samples that belong to same class but from different modalities as close as possible in the latent subspace. An efficient algorithm is proposed to jointly optimize the proposed model and learn the optimal dictionary, coefficients and projection matrix for each modality. Extensive experimental results on multiple benchmark datasets show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.

Cross-modal retrieval has received much attention in recent years. It is a commonly used method to project multi-modality data into a common subspace and then retrieve. However, nearly all existing methods directly adopt the space defined by the binary class label information without learning as the shared subspace for regression. In this paper, we first adopt the spectral regression method to learn the optimal latent space shared by data of all modalities based on the orthogonal constraints. Then we construct a graph model to project the multi-modality data into the latent space. Finally, we combine these two processes together to jointly learn the latent space and regress. We conduct extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets and our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.