MINER: Multi-crop INference-time Enhancement for Rare-Object Retrieval with Frozen Dual Encoders
arXiv:2609.27142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image retrieval with frozen dual encoders degrades when the query names a small, visually subordinate object in a cluttered scene: a single global image embedding underrepresents the localized visual evidence. We present MINER, a training-free…
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- 2026-09-24 04:00 · arXiv cs.CV
MINER: Multi-crop INference-time Enhancement for Rare-Object Retrieval with Frozen Dual Encoders