PhotoBench: Beyond Visual Matching Towards Personalized Intent-Driven Photo Retrieval
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arXiv:2603.01493v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personal photo albums are not merely collections of static images but living, ecological archives defined by temporal continuity, social entanglement, and rich metadata, which makes the personalized photo retrieval non-trivial. However, existing retrieval benchmarks rely heavily on context-isolated web snapshots, failing to capture the multi-source reasoning required to resolve authentic, intent-driven user queries. To bridge this gap, we introduce PhotoBench, the first benchmark constructed from authentic, personal albums. It is design
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2603.01493v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personal photo albums are not merely collections of static images but living, ecological archives defined by temporal continuity, social entanglement, and rich metadata, which makes the personalized photo retrieval non-trivial.
- However, existing retrieval benchmarks rely heavily on context-isolated web snapshots, failing to capture the multi-source reasoning required to resolve authentic, intent-driven user queries.
- To bridge this gap, we introduce PhotoBench, the first benchmark constructed from authentic, personal albums.
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