Prompt-based Alignment of Headlines and Images Using OpenCLIP

In this paper, we describe how we leverage OpenCLIP to generate automated image recommendations for online news articles for the MediaEval 2023 NewsImages task. By exploring different text prompting techniques, a total of five retrieval approaches were devised. Results show, however, that the best performing approach is an unmodified CLIP version with the raw article headline as input. We reflect on this finding and its implication for future NewsImages tasks