Ask-to-Retrieve: VQA-Guided Information-Gain Question Selection for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval.

@inproceedings{xie-2026-asktoretrieve, author = {Shuaiwei Xie and Yating Yang and Bo Ma and Xi Zhou and Zhen Wang and Ahtamjan Ahmat}, editor = {Stevan Rudinac and Zi Huang and Marcel Worring and Lucia Vadicamo and Xirong Li and Pascal Mettes and Lizi Liao}, title = {{Ask-to-Retrieve: VQA-Guided Information-Gain Question Selection for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16-19, 2026}}, pages = {1740--1748}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810597}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810597} }