MS-DPPs: Multi-Source Determinantal Point Processes for Contextual Diversity Refinement of Composite Attributes in Text to Image Retrieval

MS-DPPs: Multi-Source Determinantal Point Processes for Contextual Diversity Refinement of Composite Attributes in Text to Image Retrieval

Naoya Sogi, Takashi Shibata, Makoto Terao, Masanori Suganuma, Takayuki Okatani

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 1856-1864. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/207

Result diversification (RD) is a crucial technique in Text-to-Image Retrieval for enhancing the efficiency of a practical application. Conventional methods focus solely on increasing the diversity metric of image appearances. However, the diversity metric and its desired value vary depending on the application, which limits the applications of RD. This paper proposes a novel task called CDR-CA (Contextual Diversity Refinement of Composite Attributes). CDR-CA aims to refine the diversities of multiple attributes, according to the application's context. To address this task, we propose Multi-Source DPPs, a simple yet strong baseline that extends the Determinantal Point Process (DPP) to multi-sources. We model MS-DPP as a single DPP model with a unified similarity matrix based on a manifold representation. We also introduce Tangent Normalization to reflect contexts. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: CV: Image and video retrieval 
Computer Vision: CV: Applications and Systems
Computer Vision: CV: Machine learning for vision