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Recent remarkable improvements in large-scale text-to-image generative models have shown promising results in generating high-fidelity images. To further enhance editability and enable fine-grained generation, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Kangyeol Kim , Sunghyun Park , Junsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

Computer science texts are particularly rich in both narrative content and illustrative charts, algorithms, images, annotated diagrams, etc. This study explores the extent to which vector-based multimodal retrieval, powered by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Beth Plale , Sai Navya Jyesta , Sachith Withana

Classification is a common AI problem, and vector search is a typical solution. This transforms a given body of text into a numerical representation, known as an embedding, and modern improvements to vector search focus on optimising speed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lee Harris

Semantic retrieval, which retrieves semantically matched items given a textual query, has been an essential component to enhance system effectiveness in e-commerce search. In this paper, we study the multimodal retrieval problem, where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhigong Zhou , Ning Ding , Xiaochuan Fan , Yue Shang , Yiming Qiu , Jingwei Zhuo , Zhiwei Ge , Songlin Wang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Han Zhang

Information retrieval lies at the foundation of the modern digital industry. While natural language search has seen dramatic progress in recent years largely driven by embedding-based models and large-scale pretraining, the field still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Adrià Molina , Oriol Ramos Terrades , Josep Lladós

Semantic retrieval (also known as dense retrieval) based on textual data has been extensively studied for both web search and product search application fields, where the relevance of a query and a potential target document is computed by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Dong Liu , Esther Lopez Ramos

Conventional existing retrieval methods in remote sensing (RS) are often based on a uni-modal data retrieval framework. In this work, we propose a novel inter-modal triplet-based zero-shot retrieval scheme utilizing a sketch-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ushasi Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee , Avik Bhattacharya , Mihai Datcu

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

The goal of case-based retrieval is to assist physicians in the clinical decision making process, by finding relevant medical literature in large archives. We propose a research that aims at improving the effectiveness of case-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Stefano Marchesin

Understanding semantic intricacies and high-level concepts is essential in image sketch generation, and this challenge becomes even more formidable when applied to the domain of videos. To address this, we propose a novel optimization-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yudian Zheng , Xiaodong Cun , Menghan Xia , Chi-Man Pun

The goal of text-to-video retrieval is to search large databases for relevant videos based on text queries. Existing methods have progressed to handling explicit queries where the visual content of interest is described explicitly; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Chenxiao Fan , Chenjia Li , Mathias Unberath

Video generation and editing conditioned on text prompts or images have undergone significant advancements. However, challenges remain in accurately controlling global layout and geometry details solely by texts, and supporting motion…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Feng-Lin Liu , Hongbo Fu , Xintao Wang , Weicai Ye , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Lin Gao

Scene graphs are a powerful structured representation of the underlying content of images, and embeddings derived from them have been shown to be useful in multiple downstream tasks. In this work, we employ a graph convolutional network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Paridhi Maheshwari , Ritwick Chaudhry , Vishwa Vinay

Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior methods either rely on vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Imen Mahdi , Matteo Cassinelli , Fabien Despinoy , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

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

Multilingual (or cross-lingual) embeddings represent several languages in a unique vector space. Using a common embedding space enables for a shared semantic between words from different languages. In this paper, we propose to embed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Maxime Portaz , Hicham Randrianarivo , Adrien Nivaggioli , Estelle Maudet , Christophe Servan , Sylvain Peyronnet

Free-hand sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a specific cross-view retrieval task, in which queries are abstract and ambiguous sketches while the retrieval database is formed with natural images. Work in this area mainly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Li Liu , Fumin Shen , Yuming Shen , Xianglong Liu , Ling Shao

Basic group of visual techniques such as color, shape, texture are used in Content Based Image Retrievals (CBIR) to retrieve query image or subregion of image to find similar images in image database. To improve query result, relevance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Mohini P. Sardey , G. K. Kharate

In the context of a classroom lesson, concepts must be visualized and organized in many ways depending on the needs of the teacher and students. Traditional presentation media such as the blackboard or electronic whiteboard allow for static…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Ken Perlin , Zhenyi He , Karl Rosenberg

Sketch-based 3D shape retrieval (SBSR) aims to retrieve 3D shapes that are consistent with the category of the input hand-drawn sketch. The core challenge of this task lies in two aspects: existing methods typically employ simplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hang Cheng , Muyan He , Mingyu Fan , Chengfeng Xie , Xi Cheng , Long Zeng