Querybank normalisation (QB-Norm)


Summary: A video digest of the QB-Norm framework, introduced in the work "Cross Modal Retrieval with Querybank Normalisation" by S. V. Bogolin, I. Croitoru, H. Jin, Y. Liu andS. Albanie published at CVPR 2022.
Paper: The paper can be found on arxiv here.
Code: Code and models can be found here.
Topics: vision and language, hubness, cross modal retrieval
Slides: link (pdf)

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