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Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) relies on free-hand sketches to retrieve natural photos within the same class. However, its practical application is limited by its inability to retrieve classes absent from the training set. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a novel cross-modal retrieval task, where abstract sketches are used as queries to retrieve natural images under zero-shot scenario. Most existing methods regard ZS-SBIR as a traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Zhipeng Wang , Hao Wang , Jiexi Yan , Aming Wu , Cheng Deng

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a specific cross-modal retrieval task for searching natural images given free-hand sketches under the zero-shot scenario. Most existing methods solve this problem by simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xinxun Xu , Muli Yang , Yanhua Yang , Hao Wang

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

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims to minimize the distance between sketches and corresponding images in the embedding space. However, scalability is hindered by the growing complexity of solutions, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Jiang , Hao Tang , Zhilin Jiang , Weiren Yu , Di Wu

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 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

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 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

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

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

Unsupervised learning has grown in popularity because of the difficulty of collecting annotated data and the development of modern frameworks that allow us to learn from unlabeled data. Existing studies, however, either disregard variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yi-Zhan Xu , Chih-Yao Chen , Cheng-Te Li