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  1. VEDJE: Video-Efficient Discriminative Joint Encoder for Scalable Video-Text Retrieval

    Oct 8, 2026Shahaf Wagner, Gabriele Serussi, Dan Ben Ami +2Video RetrievalVision-Language Retrieval

    INSIGHT Lab, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel · Decart AI · Texas A&M University, College Station

  2. SoccerNet-FoulRet: Retrieving Semantically Similar Soccer Foul Videos

    Oct 7, 2026Jacobus Arthur, Ahmad Sait, Batool Hani +6Video RetrievalSports Video Analysis

    University of Liège · KAUST · SpAItial

  3. TF-PRVR: Training-Free Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

    Oct 6, 2026Giyeol Kim, Chanho EomInformation RetrievalVision-Language Retrieval

    Chung-Ang University

  4. AiSearch: Interactive Multi-Modal Search with VLMs

    Oct 1, 2026Ali Koksal, Mei Chee Leong, Vicky Sintunata +2Multimodal IRVision-Language Models

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

  5. LazySloth: Bounded LLM-based Lazy Tree Search for Fast Long Video Comprehension

    Sep 29, 2026Arka Mukherjee, Kaleen Shrestha, Larissa Zhu +1Efficient VLM InferenceLong-Video Understanding

    School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Bhubaneswar · Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

  6. Seeing Is Not Addressing: Auditing Linguistic Access to Frozen Visual Geometry

    Sep 29, 2026Woosang Jeon, Jiwon Yang, Soo Chung +1Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Grounding

    Seoul National University

  7. MINER: Multi-crop INference-time Enhancement for Rare-Object Retrieval with Frozen Dual Encoders

    Sep 22, 2026Abdulmalik Alquwayfili, Faisal AlMeshal, Jumanah Almajnouni +2Vision-Language RetrievalImage Retrieval

    Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)

  8. Human-Grounded Calibration for Long-Text Image-Text Congruence in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 14, 2026Alessandro Gambetti, Qiwei HanText-Image AlignmentVision-Language Retrieval

    NOVA School of Science and Technology · Universidade NOVA de Lisboa · Caparica, Portugal +2

  9. UOT-Gap: A Variational Principle for the Modality Gap in Vision-Language Models via Unbalanced Optimal Transport

    Sep 9, 2026Zonglin Yang, Huilan Ma, Xudan Zheng +1Modality Gap in VLMsVision-Language Retrieval

    Guangdong Police College

  10. FRAME: Factored Retrieval via Attribute Readouts for Object-Centric Scene Memory

    Sep 8, 2026Woosang Jeon, Sanghyeok Choi, Minwoo Kim +2Vision-Language GroundingInformation Retrieval

    Seoul National University

  11. Bridging the Semantic-Utility Gap in Multimodal RAG via Generator-in-the-Loop Alignment

    Sep 8, 2026Zhan-Lun Chang, Dong-Jun Han, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour +2Multimodal RAGMultimodal Reranking

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo–SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

  12. A Reverse Sign Language Dictionary: Open-Vocabulary Sign Recognition from Continuous Signing via Video Captioning and Description Retrieval

    Sep 3, 2026Santiago Poveda-Gutiérrez, Hideki Nakayama, Mayumi BonoVideo CaptioningVision-Language Retrieval

    Grad. School of IST The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan · Information and Society Research Division National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan

  13. From Saliency to Discriminability: Rank-Preserving Visual Token Pruning for VLM Rerankers

    Sep 1, 2026Siyi Liu, Hanjun Yang, Chenchen Zhang +7Efficient VLM InferenceMultimodal Reranking

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2Tencent Yuanbao · 3ARC Lab, Tencent

  14. OVIP-SG: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Preserving Scene Graphs for Mapping and Retrieval of Small, Fine-Grained Objects

    Aug 18, 2026Tianjing Hao, Haiyu Lan, Angsong Li +63D SGG3D Scene Understanding

    1Xi’an Jiaotong University · 2AgiBot

  15. Heterogeneous Vision-Language Ensemble with Disagreement-Aware Reranking for Text-Based Person Anomaly Retrieval

    Aug 13, 2026Huu-An Vu, Cam Tu Tran Thi, Thanh Toan Le Ngo +5Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Reranking

    Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam · GenAI4E Lab · University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam +4

  16. MASCOT: Model-Aware Submodular Coverage for Composite-Attribute Text-to-Image Retrieval

    Aug 12, 2026Aaryan Sharma, Vishak Prasad C, Virendra Singh +1Vision-Language RetrievalImage Retrieval

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Department of Electrical Engineering Mumbai, India · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mumbai, India

  17. Rethinking Text-Based Image Retrieval in Specific Domain

    Aug 11, 2026Jingyang Tan, Sheng Yang, Yuanpeng Chen +4Image-Text RetrievalVision-Language Retrieval

    Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology · School of Data Science, Fudan University · Independent Researcher +1

  18. FaLCon: Facet-Anchored Retrieval with Late Consensus for Sim2Real Text-Based Person Anomaly Search

    Aug 10, 2026Hieu Dinh Trung Pham, Phuong Huu Vu Tran, Thuan Duc Mai +6Fine-Grained Image RetrievalSim-to-Real Transfer

    PAMI Lab, Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam · Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam · Ho Chi Minh city University of Science, Vietnam +2

  19. MRBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Human Motion-Text Retrieval

    Aug 8, 2026Fulong Liu, Liang Xu, Chengqun Yang +3Cross-Modal AlignmentInformation Retrieval

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Beijing Zhongguancun Academy

  20. A Paragraph is Worth a Thousand Captions: Rethinking Text Supervision for Vision-Language Retrieval

    Aug 5, 2026Mahyar Ghazanfari, Amin Tabrizian, Arsyi Aziz +2Image-Text RetrievalVision-Language Retrieval

    The George Washington University

  21. ReToken: Improving Long-Context VLMs with Visual Retrieval Token

    Jul 30, 2026Yao Xiao, Reuben Tan, Zhen Zhu +3Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Retrieval

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Microsoft Research · Google DeepMind

  22. FiRE: Enhancing MLLMs with Fine-Grained Context Learning for Complex Image Retrieval

    Jul 30, 2026Bohan Hou, Haoqiang Lin, Xuemeng Song +4Fine-Grained Image RetrievalMultimodal Large Language Models

    Shandong University Qingdao, Shandong, China · City University of Hong Kong Hong kong, China · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China +2

  23. Fine-Grained Food Image Understanding via Target-Aware Data Alignment

    Jul 28, 2026Jui-Feng Chi, Wei-Lun Chu, Bruce Coburn +2Fine-Grained Image RetrievalFine-Grained Image Classification

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  24. Similarity Is Not Logic: Factored Inference for Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models

    Jul 25, 2026Sultan Alshehri, Zhantao Yang, Han Zhang +1Vision-Language ModelsVLM Reasoning

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

  25. Prompting-MammAlps: Fine-Grained Text-to-Video Retrieval for Camera-Trap Data

    Jul 10, 2026Valentin Gabeff, Baptiste Maquignaz, Jennifer Shan +5Vision-Language RetrievalWildlife Monitoring

    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland · Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany · University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  26. Do All Visual Tokens Matter Equally? Object-Evidence Preserving Token Merging for Vision-Language Retrieval

    Jul 6, 2026Suhyeong Park, Junha Jung, Jungwoo Park +1Token MergingMulti-Vector Retrieval

    The Catholic University of Korea · AIGEN Sciences Inc. · Korea University

  27. HyFL-CLIP: Hyperbolic Fine-Tuning of CLIP for Robust Long-Context Understanding

    Jul 1, 2026Ji Ha Jang, Hayeon Kim, Chulwon Lee +2VLM RobustnessVision-Language Models

    1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2IPAI, 3INMC & AIIS, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

  28. RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory

    Jun 23, 2026Yixun Hu, Zhicheng Zheng, Lihan Zha +5Robot NavigationEmbodied QA

    Princeton University · University of Pennsylvania

  29. MAPS: Multi-Anchor Projection Similarity for Joint Vision-Language Geo-Localization

    Jun 21, 2026Yutong Hu, Siyuan Tan, Shaocheng Yan +3Cross-View Geo-LocalizationGeometric Representation Learning

    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China

  30. Look Before You Zoom: Adaptive Routing for the Resolution-Context Trade-off in Visual RAG

    Jun 20, 2026Oanh N. Tran, Thanh Quoc Hung Le, Oscar Chew +2Multimodal RAGEfficient VLM Inference

    VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center, VinUniversity · Texas A&M University