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Effectively and efficiently retrieving images from remote sensing databases is a critical challenge in the realm of remote sensing big data. Utilizing hand-drawn sketches as retrieval inputs offers intuitive and user-friendly advantages,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Bo Yang , Chen Wang , Xiaoshuang Ma , Beiping Song , Zhuang Liu , Fangde Sun

Given a query consisting of a reference image and a relative caption, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images visually similar to the reference one while incorporating the changes specified in the relative caption. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Alberto Del Bimbo , Marco Bertini

A fundamental challenge faced by existing Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) models is the data scarcity -- model performances are largely bottlenecked by the lack of sketch-photo pairs. Whilst the number of photos can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) has undergone an increasing interest in the community of computer vision bringing high impact in real applications. For instance, SBIR brings an increased benefit to eCommerce search engines because it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Pablo Torres , Jose M. Saavedra

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a challenging task due to the large cross-domain gap between sketches and natural images. How to align abstract sketches and natural images into a common high-level semantic space remains a key problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Jianjun Lei , Yuxin Song , Bo Peng , Zhanyu Ma , Ling Shao , Yi-Zhe Song

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) enables image search using a reference image and a text prompt without requiring specialized text-image composition networks trained on large-scale paired data. However, current ZS-CIR approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Osman Tursun , Sinan Kalkan , Simon Denman , Clinton Fookes

Composed image retrieval attempts to retrieve an image of interest from gallery images through a composed query of a reference image and its corresponding modified text. It has recently attracted attention due to the collaboration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shitong Sun , Fanghua Ye , Shaogang Gong

Sketch as an image search query is an ideal alternative to text in capturing the fine-grained visual details. Prior successes on fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) have demonstrated the importance of tackling the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Resolution of the complex problem of image retrieval for diagram images has yet to be reached. Deep learning methods continue to excel in the fields of object detection and image classification applied to natural imagery. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Manish Bhattarai , Diane Oyen , Juan Castorena , Liping Yang , Brendt Wohlberg

This paper proposes a novel approach for Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR), for which the key is to bridge the gap between sketches and photos in terms of the data representation. Inspired by channel-wise attention explored in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Peng Lu , Gao Huang , Hangyu Lin , Wenming Yang , Guodong Guo , Yanwei Fu

As sketch research has collectively matured over time, its adaptation for at-mass commercialisation emerges on the immediate horizon. Despite an already mature research endeavour for photos, there is no research on the efficient inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Aneeshan Sain , Subhajit Maity , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZSSBIR) is an emerging task. The pioneering work focused on the modal gap but ignored inter-class information. Although recent work has begun to consider the triplet-based or contrast-based loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Haoxiang Zhang , He Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Deqiang Cheng

The recent growth of large foundation models that can easily generate pseudo-labels for huge quantity of unlabeled data makes unsupervised Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Image Retrieval (UZS-CDIR) less relevant. In this paper, we therefore turn our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chor Boon Tan , Conghui Hu , Gim Hee Lee

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

The problem of organizing and finding images in a user's directory has become increasingly challenging due to the rapid growth in the number of images captured on personal devices. This paper presents a solution that utilizes zero shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jatin Nainani , Abhishek Mazumdar , Viraj Sheth

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging multimodal task that retrieves a target image based on a reference image and accompanying modification text. Due to the high cost of annotating CIR triplet datasets, zero-shot (ZS) CIR has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image from a query composed of a reference image and modification text. Recent training-free zero-shot methods often employ Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yi Sun , Jinyu Xu , Qing Xie , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu

This paper advances the fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) literature by putting forward a strong baseline that overshoots prior state-of-the-arts by ~11%. This is not via complicated design though, but by addressing two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Subhadeep Koley , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

In this paper, we propose a novel abstraction-aware sketch-based image retrieval framework capable of handling sketch abstraction at varied levels. Prior works had mainly focused on tackling sub-factors such as drawing style and order, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image given a reference image and a relative text, without relying on costly triplet annotations. Existing CLIP-based methods face two core challenges: (1) union-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqi Xiao , Yingying Zhu