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Content-based fashion image retrieval (CBFIR) has been widely used in our daily life for searching fashion images or items from online platforms. In e-commerce purchasing, the CBFIR system can retrieve fashion items or products with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Amin Muhammad Shoib , Jabeen Summaira , Changbo Wang , Abdul Jabbar

Search and retrieval remains a major research topic in several domains, including computer graphics, computer vision, engineering design, etc. A search engine requires primarily an input search query and a database of items to search from.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Bharadwaj Manda , Prasad Kendre , Subhrajit Dey , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving specific images by using a query that involves both a reference image and a relative caption. Most existing CIR models adopt the late-fusion strategy to combine visual and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Bai , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Fahad Khan , Wangmeng Zuo , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Chun-Mei Feng

Single-photon lidar has become a prominent tool for depth imaging in recent years. At the core of the technique, the depth of a target is measured by constructing a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Michael P. Sheehan , Julián Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) is a popular method for first-stage retrieval because it combines the semantic matching of language models with efficient CPU-friendly algorithms. Previous work aggregates blocks into "superblocks" to quickly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Parker Carlson , Wentai Xie , Rohil Shah , Tao Yang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) allows users to search target images with a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text that describes the user's modification demand over the reference image. Nevertheless, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Meng Liu , Yupeng Hu , Liqiang Nie

This paper tackles the problem of learning a finer representation than the one provided by training labels. This enables fine-grained category retrieval of images in a collection annotated with coarse labels only. Our network is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hugo Touvron , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Matthijs Douze , Matthieu Cord , Hervé Jégou

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems have emerged as crucial tools in the field of computer vision, allowing for image search based on visual content rather than relying solely on metadata. This survey paper presents a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hamed Qazanfari , Mohammad M. AlyanNezhadi , Zohreh Nozari Khoshdaregi

We investigate the gains in precision and speed, that can be obtained by using Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) for on-the-fly retrieval - where classifiers are learnt at run time for a textual query from downloaded images, and used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ken Chatfield , Karen Simonyan , Andrew Zisserman

Sketch-based image retrieval, which aims to use sketches as queries to retrieve images containing the same query instance, receives increasing attention in recent years. Although dramatic progress has been made in sketch retrieval, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Binbin Feng , Jun Li , Jianhua Xu

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

Due to an increase in the number of image achieves, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has gained attention for research community of computer vision. The image visual contents are represented in a feature space in the form of numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Atif Nazir , Kashif Nazir

We propose a new operator-sketching paradigm for designing efficient iterative data-driven reconstruction (IDR) schemes, e.g. Plug-and-Play algorithms and deep unrolling networks. These IDR schemes are currently the state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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

In this paper, we tackle for the first time, the problem of self-supervised representation learning for free-hand sketches. This importantly addresses a common problem faced by the sketch community -- that annotated supervisory data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Peng Xu , Zeyu Song , Qiyue Yin , Yi-Zhe Song , Liang Wang

Sketch-based image editing aims to synthesize and modify photos based on the structural information provided by the human-drawn sketches. Since sketches are difficult to collect, previous methods mainly use edge maps instead of sketches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Shuai Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

Keypoint detection, integral to modern machine perception, faces challenges in few-shot learning, particularly when source data from the same distribution as the query is unavailable. This gap is addressed by leveraging sketches, a popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Subhajit Maity , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Subhadeep Koley , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yi-Zhe Song

Scientific diagrams are essential for communicating complex methodologies in academic papers. A natural way for researchers to specify such diagrams is through rough sketches, where text labels, connectors, and spatial arrangements express…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xinjiang Yu , Junyi Han , Zhuofan Chen , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Fu , Jingyuan Tan , Zirui You , Yixiang Jian , Yu-Ping Wang , Chengliang Chai

Retrieving 3D models from 2D human sketches has received considerable attention in the areas of graphics, image retrieval, and computer vision. Almost always in state of the art approaches a large amount of "best views" are computed for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Fang Wang , Le Kang , Yi Li