SLAP: Selective Local Vision-Language Alignment for Fish Re-Identification via Partial Optimal Transport

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08840v1
• Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:04:41 GMT
• Title: SLAP: Selective Local Vision-Language Alignment for Fish Re-Identification via Partial Optimal Transport
• Abstract summary: Individual fish re-identification (ReID) is a fine-grained recognition problem in which identity-discriminative cues are often localized to specific body regions.<n>We propose a selective local vision-language alignment framework that establishes localized correspondences between visual patches and prompt embeddings.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Individual fish re-identification (ReID) is a fine-grained recognition problem in which identity-discriminative cues are often localized to specific body regions rather than distributed uniformly across the animal. Nevertheless, recent CLIP-based ReID methods rely predominantly on global image-text alignment, allowing background and weakly discriminative regions to contribute to cross-modal supervision. We propose a selective local vision-language alignment framework that establishes localized correspondences between visual patch embeddings and multiple identity-aware prompt embeddings through Partial Optimal Transport (POT). Rather than enforcing exhaustive correspondence, POT enables selective matching between visual patches and prompt embeddings, allowing the model to emphasize the strongest cross-modal correspondences while avoiding forced alignment of weakly matching regions, thereby yielding more discriminative visual representations for retrieval. The framework is trained end-to-end, while only the adapted visual encoder is retained during inference. Experiments on the longitudinal Symphodus melops dataset demonstrate consistent improvements over recent CLIP-based ReID methods under both closed-set and open-set evaluation protocols. Additional evaluations on other datasets further demonstrate the generalization capability of the proposed method across diverse marine ReID benchmarks.

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