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Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) has undergone an increasing interest in the community of computer vision bringing high impact in real applications. For instance, SBIR brings an increased benefit to eCommerce search engines because it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Pablo Torres , Jose M. Saavedra

Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition (ZS-NER) remains brittle under domain and schema shifts, where unseen label definitions often misalign with a large language model's (LLM's) intrinsic semantic organization. As a result, directly mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ruichu Cai , Juntao Gan , Miao Mai , Zhifeng Hao , Boyan Xu

The need to address the scarcity of task-specific annotated data has resulted in concerted efforts in recent years for specific settings such as zero-shot learning (ZSL) and domain generalization (DG), to separately address the issues of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shivam Chandhok , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve target images given a multimodal query (comprising a reference image and a modification text), without training on annotated triplets. Existing methods typically convert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tianyue Wang , Leigang Qu , Tianyu Yang , Xiangzhao Hao , Yifan Xu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

As a challenging vision-language task, Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) is designed to retrieve target images using bi-modal (image+text) queries. Typical ZS-CIR methods employ an inversion network to generate pseudo-word tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Haiwen Li , Fei Su , Zhicheng Zhao

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images of the same category across diverse domains without relying on annotations. Existing UCIR methods, which align cross-domain features for the entire image, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Yunfan Li , Xi Peng

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from unseen classes, where the kernel problem is to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes by establishing appropriate mappings between visual and semantic features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) learns models for recognizing new classes. One of the main challenges in ZSL is the domain discrepancy caused by the category inconsistency between training and testing data. Domain adaptation is the most intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Fengmao Lv , Jianyang Zhang , Guowu Yang , Lei Feng , Yufeng Yu , Lixin Duan

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging multimodal task that retrieves a target image based on a reference image and accompanying modification text. Due to the high cost of annotating CIR triplet datasets, zero-shot (ZS) CIR has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

A major obstacle to the wide-spread adoption of neural retrieval models is that they require large supervised training sets to surpass traditional term-based techniques, which are constructed from raw corpora. In this paper, we propose an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ji Ma , Ivan Korotkov , Yinfei Yang , Keith Hall , Ryan McDonald

Modelling human free-hand sketches has become topical recently, driven by practical applications such as fine-grained sketch based image retrieval (FG-SBIR). Sketches are clearly related to photo edge-maps, but a human free-hand sketch of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Kaiyue Pang , Da Li , Jifei Song , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Existing sketch-analysis work studies sketches depicting static objects or scenes. In this work, we propose a novel cross-modal retrieval problem of fine-grained instance-level sketch-based video retrieval (FG-SBVR), where a sketch sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Peng Xu , Kun Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo , Yi-Zhe Song

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that retrieves images using a query, which is configured with an image and a caption that describes desired modifications to that image. Supervised CIR approaches have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Young Kyun Jang , Dat Huynh , Ashish Shah , Wen-Kai Chen , Ser-Nam Lim

Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates information retrieval (IR) by framing it as the generation of document identifiers (docids), thereby enabling end-to-end optimization and seamless integration with generative language models (LMs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weiwei Sun , Keyi Kong , Xinyu Ma , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren , Yiming Yang

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

Generative Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods synthesize class-related features based on predefined class semantic prototypes, showcasing superior performance. However, this feature generation paradigm falls short of providing interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Dingjie Fu , Wenjin Hou , Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Xinge You , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Given the semantic descriptions of classes, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes without labeled training data by exploiting semantic information, which contains knowledge between seen and unseen classes. Existing ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Vivek Chalumuri , Bac Nguyen

The problem of organizing and finding images in a user's directory has become increasingly challenging due to the rapid growth in the number of images captured on personal devices. This paper presents a solution that utilizes zero shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jatin Nainani , Abhishek Mazumdar , Viraj Sheth

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen object classes without any training samples, which can be regarded as a form of transfer learning from seen classes to unseen ones. This is made possible by learning a projection between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 An Zhao , Mingyu Ding , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

Current deep visual recognition systems suffer from severe performance degradation when they encounter new images from classes and scenarios unseen during training. Hence, the core challenge of Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is to cope with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo