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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

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

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is an emerging task in computer vision, allowing to retrieve natural images relevant to sketch queries that might not been seen in the training phase. Existing works either require aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Anjan Dutta , Zeynep Akata

The problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) has achieved increasing attention due to its wide applications, e.g. e-commerce. Despite progress made in this field, previous works suffer from using imbalanced samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hanwen Su , Ge Song , Jiyan Wang , Yuanbo Zhu

Recent studies show that large-scale sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) can be efficiently tackled by cross-modal binary representation learning methods, where Hamming distance matching significantly speeds up the process of similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Yuming Shen , Li Liu , Fumin Shen , Ling Shao

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is widely recognized as an important vision problem which implies a wide range of real-world applications. Recently, research interests arise in solving this problem under the more realistic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Qing Liu , Lingxi Xie , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille

The performance of a zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) task is primarily affected by two challenges. The substantial domain gap between image and sketch features needs to be bridged, while at the same time the side…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sumrit Gupta , Ushasi Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

We propose and evaluate several triplet CNN architectures for measuring the similarity between sketches and photographs, within the context of the sketch based image retrieval (SBIR) task. In contrast to recent fine-grained SBIR work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tu Bui , Leonardo Ribeiro , Moacir Ponti , John Collomosse

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

We present an algorithm for searching image collections using free-hand sketches that describe the appearance and relative positions of multiple objects. Sketch based image retrieval (SBIR) methods predominantly match queries containing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Alexander Black , Tu Bui , Long Mai , Hailin Jin , John Collomosse

In this paper, we propose a novel deep framework for part-level semantic parsing of freehand sketches, which makes three main contributions that are experimentally shown to have substantial practical merit. First, we propose a homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Ying Zheng , Hongxun Yao , Xiaoshuai Sun

Semantic segmentation and stereo matching are two essential components of 3D environmental perception systems for autonomous driving. Nevertheless, conventional approaches often address these two problems independently, employing separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhiyuan Wu , Yi Feng , Chuang-Wei Liu , Fisher Yu , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

The huge domain gap between sketches and photos and the highly abstract sketch representations pose challenges for sketch-based image retrieval (\underline{SBIR}). The zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (\underline{ZS-SBIR}) is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hao Ren , Ziqiang Zheng , Yang Wu , Hong Lu , Yang Yang , Ying Shan , Sai-Kit Yeung

Architectures based on siamese networks with triplet loss have shown outstanding performance on the image-based similarity search problem. This approach attempts to discriminate between positive (relevant) and negative (irrelevant) items.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Anibal Fuentes , Jose M. Saavedra

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 present a probabilistic model for Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) where, at retrieval time, we are given sketches from novel classes, that were not present at training time. Existing SBIR methods, most of which rely on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Vinay Kumar Verma , Aakansha Mishra , Ashish Mishra , Piyush Rai

The goal of Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is using free-hand sketches to retrieve images of the same category from a natural image gallery. However, SBIR requires all test categories to be seen during training, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jiangtong Li , Zhixin Ling , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

This paper studies the problem of zero-short sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR), however with two significant differentiators to prior art (i) we tackle all variants (inter-category, intra-category, and cross datasets) of ZS-SBIR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Fengyin Lin , Mingkang Li , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales , Yi-Zhe Song , Yonggang Qi

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZSSBIR), as a popular studied branch of computer vision, attracts wide attention recently. Unlike sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR), the main aim of ZSSBIR is to retrieve natural images given free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Guanglong Xu , Zhensheng Hu , Jia Cai

This paper studies the problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR), which aims to use sketches from unseen categories as queries to match the images of the same category. Due to the large cross-modality discrepancy, ZS-SBIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Decheng Liu , Xu Luo , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao