2026
CONQUER: CONTEXT-AWARE REPRESENTATION WITH QUERY ENHANCEMENT FOR TEXT-BASED PERSON SEARCH
ICASSP 2026poster
Text-Based Person Search (TBPS) aims to retrieve pedestrian images from large galleries using natural language descriptions. This task, essential for public safety applications, is hindered by cross-modal discrepancies and ambiguous user queries. We introduce CONQUER, a two-stage framework designed…