Optimizing Multi-Modal Models for Image-Based Shape Retrieval: The Role of Pre-Alignment and Hard Contrastive Learning

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Source paper: Optimizing Multi-Modal Models for Image-Based Shape Retrieval: The Role of Pre-Alignment and Hard Contrastive Learning

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we address IBSR through large-scale multi-modal pretraining and show that explicit view-based supervision is not required
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Directly stated in abstract that explicit view-based supervision is not required and that pre-aligned encoders enable zero-shot retrieval
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Our evaluation demonstrates state-of-the-art performance, outperforming related methods on $Acc_{Top1}$ and $Acc_{Top10}$ for shape retrieval across multiple datasets
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with best results observed for OpenShape combined with Point-BERT
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training on our proposed multi-modal HCL yields dataset-dependent gains in standard instance retrieval tasks on shape-centric data
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This formulation allows skipping view synthesis and naturally enables zero-shot and cross-domain retrieval without retraining on the target database
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by embedding images and point clouds into a shared representation space and performing retrieval via similarity search over compact single-embedding shape descriptors
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