Image-to-Text Retrieval

Image-text retrieval is the process of retrieving relevant images based on textual descriptions or finding corresponding textual descriptions for a given image. This task is interdisciplinary, combining techniques from computer vision, and natural language processing. The primary challenge lies in bridging the semantic gap — the difference between how visual data is represented in images and how humans describe that information using language. To address this, many methods focus on learning a shared embedding space where both images and text can be represented in a comparable way, allowing their similarities to be measured and facilitating more accurate retrieval.

Source: <span class="description-source"> Extending CLIP for Category-to-Image Retrieval in E-commerce</span>