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arxiv: 2403.15152 · v3 · submitted 2024-03-22 · 💻 cs.CV

Caption-Matching: A Multimodal Approach for Cross-Domain Image Retrieval

Lucas Iijima , Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki This is my paper

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keywords cross-domain image retrievalcaption matchingvision-language modelszero-shot retrievalunsupervised domain adaptationmultimodal similarityplug-and-play retrieval
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The pith

Generated image captions act as a domain-agnostic bridge for retrieving matches across sketches, paintings, and photographs without labels or training.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents Caption-Matching as a way to turn images from mismatched visual domains into text descriptions using existing pre-trained models. These descriptions then serve as the basis for computing similarity between images that otherwise look unrelated due to style differences. The approach requires no labeled cross-domain pairs and no additional training on target data, which removes common barriers in cross-domain retrieval. Results on Office-Home and DomainNet show consistent gains over earlier methods, and the same pipeline handles queries that mix real and AI-generated images. A reader would care because it offers a lightweight alternative to supervised domain adaptation for tasks where collecting matched examples is impractical.

Core claim

Caption-Matching generates captions for each image with pre-trained vision-language models and treats those captions as an intermediate representation that remains stable across visual domains. Similarity between images from different domains is then computed directly on the captions, which enables retrieval without any requirement for labeled cross-domain correspondences or model fine-tuning. The method records state-of-the-art performance in plug-and-play settings on Office-Home and DomainNet while also succeeding on queries that combine real photographs with AI-generated images from Midjourney.

What carries the argument

Caption-Matching (CM), which converts each image into a caption via a pre-trained vision-language model and uses caption similarity for cross-domain matching.

If this is right

  • Cross-domain retrieval works in a fully unsupervised plug-and-play manner on standard benchmarks.
  • Performance improves on Office-Home and DomainNet without domain-specific training or labeled pairs.
  • The same caption-based matching extends to queries that mix multiple visual domains including AI-generated images.
  • No requirement for target-domain labels lowers the data cost of deploying retrieval systems across new styles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same caption intermediary could be tested on video frames or 3D renders to check whether language still bridges those modality gaps.
  • Replacing the caption generator with a stronger model would be a direct way to measure how much retrieval quality depends on caption fidelity.
  • Domains that produce highly ambiguous captions, such as abstract art, would expose where the method's performance ceiling lies.
  • Caption matching could simplify retrieval pipelines that already use language as a common space for other modalities.

Load-bearing premise

Captions produced by current pre-trained vision-language models retain enough semantic detail to serve as a reliable domain-invariant signal for similarity computation.

What would settle it

A drop in retrieval accuracy on domain pairs where the same visual content receives markedly different captions from the model, or where visually dissimilar content receives similar captions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2403.15152 by Lucas Iijima, Nikolaos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed Caption-Matching (CM) method. The process begins with the BLIP-2 model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: t-SNE visualization of text embeddings generated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparison of the top-10 retrieved [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Top-5 retrieval results on Midjourney’s database. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Cross-Domain Image Retrieval (CDIR) is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match images across different visual domains such as sketches, paintings, and photographs. Existing CDIR methods rely either on supervised learning with labeled cross-domain correspondences or on methods that require training or fine-tuning on target datasets, often struggling with substantial domain gaps and limited generalization to unseen domains. This paper introduces a novel CDIR approach that incorporates textual context by leveraging publicly available pre-trained vision-language models. Our method, Caption-Matching (CM), uses generated image captions as a domain-agnostic intermediate representation, enabling effective cross-domain similarity computation without the need for labeled data or further training. We evaluate our method on standard CDIR benchmark datasets, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in plug-and-play settings with consistent improvements on Office-Home and DomainNet over previous methods. We also demonstrate our method's effectiveness on a dataset of AI-generated images from Midjourney, showcasing its ability to handle complex, multi-domain queries.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Caption-Matching (CM), a training-free cross-domain image retrieval method that generates captions from pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., BLIP, LLaVA) and performs similarity search in caption embedding space. It claims this yields state-of-the-art results on Office-Home and DomainNet without labeled data or fine-tuning, plus results on Midjourney AI-generated images.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work would demonstrate a simple plug-and-play zero-shot CDIR approach that sidesteps supervised domain adaptation. The significance is tempered by the absence of reported quantitative metrics, ablations, or caption-fidelity analysis in the abstract and by the method's dependence on external pre-trained VLMs whose behavior on non-photographic domains is uncharacterized.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The abstract asserts SOTA performance on Office-Home and DomainNet yet supplies no numerical results (e.g., mAP, recall@K), baseline comparisons, or ablation tables; without these data the central empirical claim cannot be evaluated.
  2. [§3] §3 (Method): The domain-agnostic claim rests on the untested assumption that captions from photo-centric VLMs preserve fine-grained semantics on sketches, paintings, and clip-art; no per-domain caption accuracy, hallucination rate, or fidelity metrics are provided to support this.
  3. [§4] §4: No error analysis or controlled experiment isolates whether retrieval gains survive when caption quality is degraded (e.g., by substituting generic or incorrect captions), leaving the weakest assumption unexamined.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] Notation for the text encoder and similarity function should be introduced with explicit equations rather than prose descriptions.
  2. [§4.3] The Midjourney dataset description lacks details on query construction and domain composition.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment point-by-point below and indicate the revisions planned for the next version of the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The abstract asserts SOTA performance on Office-Home and DomainNet yet supplies no numerical results (e.g., mAP, recall@K), baseline comparisons, or ablation tables; without these data the central empirical claim cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including key numerical results. In the revised manuscript we will update the abstract to report the main mAP and Recall@K figures on Office-Home and DomainNet together with the primary baseline comparisons. The full tables already appear in §4; the change is limited to surfacing the headline numbers in the abstract. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3] §3 (Method): The domain-agnostic claim rests on the untested assumption that captions from photo-centric VLMs preserve fine-grained semantics on sketches, paintings, and clip-art; no per-domain caption accuracy, hallucination rate, or fidelity metrics are provided to support this.

    Authors: The manuscript presents the domain-agnostic claim through consistent retrieval gains across all domains in the benchmarks. While we do not supply explicit per-domain caption fidelity or hallucination statistics, the end-to-end results serve as indirect validation. To address the request directly we will add, in the revision, a short qualitative caption analysis across domains and any available quantitative fidelity numbers on annotated subsets. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [§4] §4: No error analysis or controlled experiment isolates whether retrieval gains survive when caption quality is degraded (e.g., by substituting generic or incorrect captions), leaving the weakest assumption unexamined.

    Authors: We concur that an explicit ablation on caption quality would be informative. In the revised §4 we will insert a controlled experiment that replaces the generated captions with generic or random text and reports the resulting drop in retrieval metrics, thereby isolating the contribution of caption semantics. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; retrieval performance depends on external pre-trained VLMs

full rationale

The paper introduces Caption-Matching by generating captions from off-the-shelf vision-language models (BLIP, LLaVA, etc.) and then computing text similarity. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claim does not reduce any quantity to a definition or fit internal to the work; performance is explicitly attributed to the external models' semantic preservation, which is an assumption but not a circular derivation. This matches the default expectation of a self-contained method whose validity rests on external components.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain-agnostic property of captions and the semantic fidelity of off-the-shelf VLMs; no free parameters, ad-hoc axioms, or new entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Pre-trained vision-language models produce captions that capture semantic content independent of visual domain style.
    Invoked when the paper states that captions serve as a domain-agnostic intermediate representation.

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