Dividing and Conquering Cross-Modal Recipe Retrieval: from Nearest Neighbours Baselines to SoTA



Fain, Mikhail, Twomey, Niall, Ponikar, Andrey, Fox, Ryan and Bollegala, Danushka
(2019) Dividing and Conquering Cross-Modal Recipe Retrieval: from Nearest Neighbours Baselines to SoTA. CoRR, abs/19.

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Abstract

We propose a novel non-parametric method for cross-modal recipe retrieval which is applied on top of precomputed image and text embeddings. By combining our method with standard approaches for building image and text encoders, trained independently with a self-supervised classification objective, we create a baseline model which outperforms most existing methods on a challenging image-to-recipe task. We also use our method for comparing image and text encoders trained using different modern approaches, thus addressing the issues hindering the development of novel methods for cross-modal recipe retrieval. We demonstrate how to use the insights from model comparison and extend our baseline model with standard triplet loss that improves state-of-the-art on the Recipe1M dataset by a large margin, while using only precomputed features and with much less complexity than existing methods. Further, our approach readily generalizes beyond recipe retrieval to other challenging domains, achieving state-of-the-art performance on Politics and GoodNews cross-modal retrieval tasks.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: cs.CV, cs.CV
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2019 13:31
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 00:13
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3065915