TeachText: CrossModal text-video retrieval through generalized distillation

Summary (the publisher’s abstract is not openly available): Journal extension of TeachText (ICCV 2021). It proposes a generalized cross-modal distillation approach that leverages multiple text encoders to provide an enhanced supervisory signal for text-video retrieval, extends the idea to the video side to reduce the number of modalities needed at test time without loss in performance, and reports state-of-the-art results on several video retrieval benchmarks with no additional computational overhead at test time.

@article{croitoru2025teachtext,
  title = {TeachText: CrossModal text-video retrieval through generalized distillation},
  author = {Ioana Croitoru and Simion-Vlad Bogolin and Marius Leordeanu and Hailin Jin and Andrew Zisserman and Yang Liu and Samuel Albanie},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)},
}