Dialogue-Driven Interactive Dynamic Learning for Text-to-Image Person Retrieval

Text-to-image person retrieval aims to identify target person images using natural language descriptions. Current state-of-the-art methods predominantly rely on single-round retrieval frameworks, where retrieval accuracy heavily depends on the quality of the initial textual descriptions. However, users sometimes struggle to provide detailed and distinctive descriptions in a single attempt, resulting in generic initial queries that lack discriminative details. This fundamental limitation of the single-round retrieval framework frequently leads to the misinterpretation of user intent and suboptimal retrieval performance. To address this limitation, we propose Dialogue-driven Interactive Dynamic Learning (DIDL) for text-to-image person retrieval. Specifically, we first introduce Collaborative Query Refinement (CQR), which progressively refines retrieval conditions through multi-round dialogues. Then, we design Dynamic Context Resampling (DCR) based on a bi-granular mask strategy that enhances the model's adaptation to dialogue-style contexts and effectively balances its attention between initial descriptions and supplementary information. Based on these components, we further propose cross-modal Probabilistic Context Matching Modeling (ProCMM) that establishes effective associations between static visual features and dynamic contextual semantics. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance across all three benchmark datasets.