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This paper tackles the Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) problem from the viewpoint of cross-modality metric learning. This task has two characteristics: 1) the zero-shot setting requires a metric space with good within-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Zongheng Huang , YiFan Sun , Chuchu Han , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) addresses the problem of retrieving a particular photo in a given query sketch. However, its widespread applicability is limited by the fact that it is difficult to draw a complete sketch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Dawei Dai , Xiaoyu Tang , Shuyin Xia , Yingge Liu , Guoyin Wang , Zizhong Chen

We address the challenges inherent in sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) across various settings, including zero-shot SBIR, generalized zero-shot SBIR, and fine-grained zero-shot SBIR, by leveraging the vision-language foundation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Divyam Gupta , Pranav Singla , Biplab Banerjee

Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is a crucial task in multimedia retrieval, where the goal is to retrieve a set of images that match a given sketch query. Researchers have already proposed several well-performing solutions for this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Omar Seddati , Nathan Hubens , Stéphane Dupont , Thierry Dutoit

We introduce a novel problem of scene sketch zero-shot learning (SSZSL), which is a challenging task, since (i) different from photo, the gap between common semantic domain (e.g., word vector) and sketch is too huge to exploit common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yao Xie , Peng Xu , Zhanyu Ma

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims at finding a specific image from a large gallery given a query sketch. Despite the widespread applicability of FG-SBIR in many critical domains (e.g., crime activity tracking),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dingrong Wang , Hitesh Sapkota , Xumin Liu , Qi Yu

Person re-identification (re-ID) requires densely distributed cameras. In practice, the person of interest may not be captured by cameras and, therefore, needs to be retrieved using subjective information (e.g., sketches from witnesses).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Kejun Lin , Zhixiang Wang , Zheng Wang , Yinqiang Zheng , Shin'ichi Satoh

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption that describes the difference between the two images. The high effort and cost required for labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been limited to that of image retrieval. In this paper, for the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

The goal of Scene-level Sketch-Based Image Retrieval is to retrieve natural images matching the overall semantics and spatial layout of a free-hand sketch. Unlike prior work focused on architectural augmentations of retrieval models, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Emil Demić , Luka Čehovin Zajc

In some specific scenarios, face sketch was used to identify a person. However, drawing a complete face sketch often needs skills and takes time, which hinder its widespread applicability in the practice. In this study, we proposed a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dawei Dai , Yutang Li , Liang Wang , Shiyu Fu , Shuyin Xia , Guoyin Wang

Modelling human free-hand sketches has become topical recently, driven by practical applications such as fine-grained sketch based image retrieval (FG-SBIR). Sketches are clearly related to photo edge-maps, but a human free-hand sketch of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Kaiyue Pang , Da Li , Jifei Song , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) is a rapidly growing area with significant practical applications, allowing users to retrieve a target image by providing a reference image and a relative caption describing the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yongcong Ye , Kai Zhang , Yanghai Zhang , Enhong Chen , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou

Low-shot sketch-based image retrieval is an emerging task in computer vision, allowing to retrieve natural images relevant to hand-drawn sketch queries that are rarely seen during the training phase. Related prior works either require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Anjan Dutta , Zeynep Akata

The recent focus on Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) has shifted towards generalising a model to new categories without any training data from them. In real-world applications, however, a trained FG-SBIR model is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Parth Shah , Animesh Gupta , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Zero-shot image recognition (ZSIR) aims to recognize and reason in unseen domains by learning generalized knowledge from limited data in the seen domain. The gist of ZSIR is constructing a well-aligned mapping between the input visual space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jingcai Guo , Zhijie Rao , Zhi Chen , Song Guo , Jingren Zhou , Dacheng Tao

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims to minimize the distance between sketches and corresponding images in the embedding space. However, scalability is hindered by the growing complexity of solutions, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Jiang , Hao Tang , Zhilin Jiang , Weiren Yu , Di Wu

Sketch has been employed as an effective communicative tool to express the abstract and intuitive meanings of object. Recognizing the free-hand sketch drawing is extremely useful in many real-world applications. While content-based sketch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Peng Lu , Hangyu Lin , Yanwei Fu , Shaogang Gong , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Fine-grained image retrieval via hand-drawn sketches or textual descriptions remains a critical challenge due to inherent modality gaps. While hand-drawn sketches capture complex structural contours, they lack color and texture, which text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Siyuan Wang , Hanchen Gao , Guangming Zhu , Jiang Lu , Yiyue Ma , Tianci Wu , Jincai Huang , Liang Zhang

We study the zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) task, which is to retrieve the target image given a reference image and a description without training on the triplet datasets. Previous works generate pseudo-word tokens by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yucheng Suo , Fan Ma , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang