Fast-then-fine: A Two-stage Framework With Multi-granular Representation For Cross-modal Retrieval In Remote Sensing
2026 · Xi Chen, Xu Chen, Xiangyang Jia, et al.
Abstract
Remote sensing (RS) image-text retrieval plays a critical role in understanding massive RS imagery. However, the dense multi-object distribution and complex backgrounds in RS imagery make it difficult to simultaneously achieve fine-grained cross-modal alignment and efficient retrieval. Existing methods either rely on complex cross-modal interactions that lead to low retrieval efficiency, or depend on large-scale vision-language model pre-training, which requires massive data and computational resources. To address these issues, we propose a fast-then-fine (FTF) two-stage retrieval framework that decomposes retrieval into a text-agnostic recall stage for efficient candidate selection and a text-guided rerank stage for fine-grained alignment. Specifically, in the recall stage, text-agnostic coarse-grained representations are employed for efficient candidate selection; in the rerank stage, a parameter-free balanced text-guided interaction block enhances fine-grained alignment without intr
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