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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

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

The goal of Scene-level Sketch-Based Image Retrieval is to retrieve natural images matching the overall semantics and spatial layout of a free-hand sketch. Unlike prior work focused on architectural augmentations of retrieval models, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Emil Demić , Luka Čehovin Zajc

Sketch-based 3D shape retrieval (SBSR) aims to retrieve 3D shapes that are consistent with the category of the input hand-drawn sketch. The core challenge of this task lies in two aspects: existing methods typically employ simplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hang Cheng , Muyan He , Mingyu Fan , Chengfeng Xie , Xi Cheng , Long Zeng

Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is a crucial task in multimedia retrieval, where the goal is to retrieve a set of images that match a given sketch query. Researchers have already proposed several well-performing solutions for this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Omar Seddati , Nathan Hubens , Stéphane Dupont , Thierry Dutoit

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) associates hand-drawn sketches with their corresponding realistic images. In this study, we aim to tackle two major challenges of this task simultaneously: i) zero-shot, dealing with unseen categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Liying Gao , Bingliang Jiao , Peng Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Yanning Zhang

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

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

Fine-grained bird image classification (FBIC) is not only of great significance for ecological monitoring and species identification, but also holds broad research value in the fields of image recognition and fine-grained visual modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zheng Wang

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

Zero-shot learning offers an efficient solution for a machine learning model to treat unseen categories, avoiding exhaustive data collection. Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) simulates real-world scenarios where it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Eunyi Lyou , Doyeon Lee , Jooeun Kim , Joonseok Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Recent studies show that large-scale sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) can be efficiently tackled by cross-modal binary representation learning methods, where Hamming distance matching significantly speeds up the process of similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Yuming Shen , Li Liu , Fumin Shen , Ling Shao

We propose and evaluate several triplet CNN architectures for measuring the similarity between sketches and photographs, within the context of the sketch based image retrieval (SBIR) task. In contrast to recent fine-grained SBIR work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tu Bui , Leonardo Ribeiro , Moacir Ponti , John Collomosse