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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

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

Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) addresses the problem of retrieving a particular photo instance given a user's query sketch. Its widespread applicability is however hindered by the fact that drawing a sketch takes time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

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) associates hand-drawn sketches with their corresponding realistic images. In this study, we aim to tackle two major challenges of this task simultaneously: i) zero-shot, dealing with unseen categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Liying Gao , Bingliang Jiao , Peng Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Yanning Zhang

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images that preserve the visual content of a reference image while incorporating user-specified textual modifications. Training-free zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR) approaches, which require no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ren-Di Wu , Yu-Yen Lin , Huei-Fang Yang

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 practical value of existing supervised sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) algorithms is largely limited by the requirement for intensive data collection and labeling. In this paper, we present the first attempt at unsupervised SBIR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Conghui Hu , Yongxin Yang , Yunpeng Li , Timothy M. Hospedales , Yi-Zhe Song

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

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

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

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

The ability to retrieve a photo by mere free-hand sketching highlights the immense potential of Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR). However, its rapid practical adoption, as well as scalability, is limited by the expense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Himanshu Thakur , Soumitri Chattopadhyay

This paper, for the first time, explores text-to-image diffusion models for Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We highlight a pivotal discovery: the capacity of text-to-image diffusion models to seamlessly bridge the gap…

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

Sketch-based 3D shape retrieval is a challenging task due to the large domain discrepancy between sketches and 3D shapes. Since existing methods are trained and evaluated on the same categories, they cannot effectively recognize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Rui Xu , Zongyan Han , Le Hui , Jianjun Qian , Jin Xie

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

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

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

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) retrieves a target image from a reference image and a text modification without human-annotated CIR triplets. Projection-based ZS-CIR methods are attractive because they do not rely on LLMs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mingyu Liu , Sihan Huang , Yijia Fan , Yinlin Yan , Quan Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu , Jianhuang Lai