ReSeDis: A Dataset for Referring-based Object Search across Large-Scale Image Collections

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15180v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:52:10 GMT
• Title: ReSeDis: A Dataset for Referring-based Object Search across Large-Scale Image Collections
• Authors: Ziling Huang, Yidan Zhang, Shin'ichi Satoh,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Referring Search and Discovery (ReSeDis), the first task that unifies corpus-level retrieval with pixel-level grounding.<n>To enable rigorous study, we curate a benchmark in which every description maps uniquely to object instances scattered across a large, diverse corpus.<n>ReSeDis offers a realistic, end-to-end testbed for building the next generation of robust and scalable multimodal search systems.
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• Abstract: Large-scale visual search engines are expected to solve a dual problem at once: (i) locate every image that truly contains the object described by a sentence and (ii) identify the object's bounding box or exact pixels within each hit. Existing techniques address only one side of this challenge. Visual grounding yields tight boxes and masks but rests on the unrealistic assumption that the object is present in every test image, producing a flood of false alarms when applied to web-scale collections. Text-to-image retrieval excels at sifting through massive databases to rank relevant images, yet it stops at whole-image matches and offers no fine-grained localization. We introduce Referring Search and Discovery (ReSeDis), the first task that unifies corpus-level retrieval with pixel-level grounding. Given a free-form description, a ReSeDis model must decide whether the queried object appears in each image and, if so, where it is, returning bounding boxes or segmentation masks. To enable rigorous study, we curate a benchmark in which every description maps uniquely to object instances scattered across a large, diverse corpus, eliminating unintended matches. We further design a task-specific metric that jointly scores retrieval recall and localization precision. Finally, we provide a straightforward zero-shot baseline using a frozen vision-language model, revealing significant headroom for future study. ReSeDis offers a realistic, end-to-end testbed for building the next generation of robust and scalable multimodal search systems.

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