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Rising concerns about privacy and anonymity preservation of deep learning models have facilitated research in data-free learning (DFL). For the first time, we identify that for data-scarce tasks like Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Abhra Chaudhuri , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song , Anjan Dutta

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

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

In specific scenarios, face sketch can be used to identify a person. However, drawing a face sketch often requires exceptional skill and is time-consuming, limiting its widespread applications in actual scenarios. The new framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Liang Wang , Dawei Dai , Shiyu Fu , Guoyin Wang

Recently, Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) has attracted the attention of the computer vision community due to it's real-world applications, and the more realistic and challenging setting than found in SBIR. ZS-SBIR inherits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Osman Tursun , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Ethan Goan , Clinton Fookes

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a specific cross-modal retrieval task for retrieving natural images with free-hand sketches under zero-shot scenario. Previous works mostly focus on modeling the correspondence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Xinxun Xu , Hao Wang , Leida Li , Cheng Deng

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is the task of retrieving natural images (photos) that match the semantics and the spatial configuration of hand-drawn sketch queries. The universality of sketches extends the scope of possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Omar Seddati , Stéphane Dupont , Saïd Mahmoudi , Thierry Dutoit

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

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

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

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

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

Sketch-an-Anchor is a novel method to train state-of-the-art Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZSSBIR) models in under an epoch. Most studies break down the problem of ZSSBIR into two parts: domain alignment between images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a cross-modal matching problem which is typically solved by learning a joint embedding space where the semantic content shared between photo and sketch modalities are preserved. However, a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Conventional approaches to Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) assume that the data of all the classes are available during training. The assumption may not always be practical since the data of a few classes may be unavailable, or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Anubha Pandey , Ashish Mishra , Vinay Kumar Verma , Anurag Mittal , Hema A. Murthy

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

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

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

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

The Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging task because of the large domain gap between sketches and natural images as well as the semantic inconsistency between seen and unseen categories. Previous literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Yu-Wei Zhan , Xin Luo , Yongxin Wang , Zhen-Duo Chen , Xin-Shun Xu