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In this paper, we study the problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR). The prior methods tackle the problem in a two-modality setting with only category labels or even no textual information involved. However, the growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hanwen Su , Ge Song , Kai Huang , Jiyan Wang , Ming Yang

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

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 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

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is challenging due to the inherent domain-gap between sketch and photo. Compared with pixel-perfect depictions of photos, sketches are iconic renderings of the real world with highly abstract. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Peng Xu , Qiyue Yin , Yongye Huang , Yi-Zhe Song , Zhanyu Ma , Liang Wang , Tao Xiang , W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Jun Guo

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

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

This paper presents the first exploration of text-to-image diffusion models for zero-shot sketch-based 3D shape retrieval (ZS-SBSR). Existing sketch-based 3D shape retrieval methods struggle in zero-shot settings due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Hang Cheng , Fanhe Dong , Long Zeng

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

In this paper, we leverage CLIP for zero-shot sketch based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We are largely inspired by recent advances on foundation models and the unparalleled generalisation ability they seem to offer, but for the first time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

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

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

Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging cross-modal retrieval task. In prior arts, the retrieval is conducted by sorting the distance between the query sketch and each image in the gallery. However, the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuchen Wu , Kun Song , Fangzheng Zhao , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval typically asks for a trained model to be applied as is to unseen categories. In this paper, we question to argue that this setup by definition is not compatible with the inherent abstract and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Vaishnav Potlapalli , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

We introduce a novel problem of scene sketch zero-shot learning (SSZSL), which is a challenging task, since (i) different from photo, the gap between common semantic domain (e.g., word vector) and sketch is too huge to exploit common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yao Xie , Peng Xu , Zhanyu Ma

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a reference image and a text description without requiring in-distribution triplets for training. One prevalent approach follows the vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zining Chen , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

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

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

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) is a rapidly growing area with significant practical applications, allowing users to retrieve a target image by providing a reference image and a relative caption describing the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yongcong Ye , Kai Zhang , Yanghai Zhang , Enhong Chen , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou

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