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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

We propose a novel framework for cross-modal zero-shot learning (ZSL) in the context of sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR). Conventionally, the SBIR schema mainly considers simultaneous mappings among the two image views and the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ushasi Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee , Avik Bhattacharya , Mihai Datcu

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

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

Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) has achieved significant progress recently. However, the number of fine-grained species could be huge and dynamically increasing in real scenarios, making it difficult to recognize unseen objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Hantao Yao , Shiliang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Jintao Li , Qi Tian

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 efficacy of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) models is governed by two challenges. The immense distributions-gap between the sketches and the images requires a proper domain alignment. Moreover, the fine-grained nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ushasi Chaudhuri , Ruchika Chavan , Biplab Banerjee , Anjan Dutta , Zeynep Akata

Sketch recognition remains a significant challenge due to the limited training data and the substantial intra-class variance of freehand sketches for the same object. Conventional methods for this task often rely on the availability of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Ying Zheng , Hongxun Yao , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shengping Zhang , Sicheng Zhao , Fatih Porikli

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

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

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZSSBIR), as a popular studied branch of computer vision, attracts wide attention recently. Unlike sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR), the main aim of ZSSBIR is to retrieve natural images given free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Guanglong Xu , Zhensheng Hu , Jia Cai

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

Image super-resolution (SR) is a technique to recover lost high-frequency information in low-resolution (LR) images. Spatial-domain information has been widely exploited to implement image SR, so a new trend is to involve frequency-domain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Jing Fang , Yinbo Yu , Zhongyuan Wang , Xin Ding , Ruimin Hu

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 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

Fine-grained image recognition (FGIR) aims to distinguish visually similar sub-categories within a broader class, such as identifying bird species. While most existing FGIR methods rely on backbones pretrained on large-scale datasets like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Edwin Arkel Rios , Fernando Mikael , Oswin Gosal , Femiloye Oyerinde , Hao-Chun Liang , Bo-Cheng Lai , Min-Chun Hu

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

Generating reliable pseudo masks from image-level labels is challenging in the weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) task due to the lack of spatial information. Prevalent class activation map (CAM)-based solutions are challenged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Xu Yin , Woobin Im , Dongbo Min , Yuchi Huo , Fei Pan , Sung-Eui Yoon

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 proposes a novel approach for Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR), for which the key is to bridge the gap between sketches and photos in terms of the data representation. Inspired by channel-wise attention explored in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Peng Lu , Gao Huang , Hangyu Lin , Wenming Yang , Guodong Guo , Yanwei Fu