Fusion layer attention for image-text matching

Image-text matching aims to find the relationship between image and text data and to establish a connection between them. The main challenge of image-text matching is the fact that images and texts have different data distributions and feature representations. Current methods for image-text matching fall into two basic types: methods that map image and text data into a common space and then use distance measurements and methods that treat image-text matching as a classification problem. In both cases, the two data modes used are image and text data. In our method, we create a fusion layer to extract intermediate modes, thus improving the image-text processing results. We also propose a concise way to update the loss function that makes it easier for neural networks to handle difficult problems. The proposed method was verified on the Flickr30K and MS-COCO datasets and achieved superior matching results compared to existing methods. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.