Camouflage-aware Image-Text Retrieval via Expert Collaboration

ArXi:2604.01251v1 Announce Type: new Camouflaged scene understanding (CSU) has attracted significant attention due to its broad practical implications. However, in this field, robust image-text cross-modal alignment remains under-explored, hindering deeper understanding of camouflaged scenarios and their related applications. To this end, we focus on the typical image-text retrieval task, and formulate a new task dubbed ``camouflage-aware image-text retrieval'' (CA