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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

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

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

In some specific scenarios, face sketch was used to identify a person. However, drawing a complete face sketch often needs skills and takes time, which hinder its widespread applicability in the practice. In this study, we proposed a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dawei Dai , Yutang Li , Liang Wang , Shiyu Fu , Shuyin Xia , Guoyin Wang

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

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 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

As sketch research has collectively matured over time, its adaptation for at-mass commercialisation emerges on the immediate horizon. Despite an already mature research endeavour for photos, there is no research on the efficient inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Aneeshan Sain , Subhajit Maity , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

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

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

Human free-hand sketches have been studied in various contexts including sketch recognition, synthesis and fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR). A fundamental challenge for sketch analysis is to deal with drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Umar Riaz Muhammad , Yongxin Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales

This paper advances the fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) literature by putting forward a strong baseline that overshoots prior state-of-the-arts by ~11%. This is not via complicated design though, but by addressing two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Subhadeep Koley , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

This paper, for the first time, explores text-to-image diffusion models for Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We highlight a pivotal discovery: the capacity of text-to-image diffusion models to seamlessly bridge the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

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

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

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

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

Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZSSBIR) is an emerging task. The pioneering work focused on the modal gap but ignored inter-class information. Although recent work has begun to consider the triplet-based or contrast-based loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Haoxiang Zhang , He Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Deqiang Cheng

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

We consider feature selection for applications in machine learning where the dimensionality of the data is so large that it exceeds the working memory of the (local) computing machine. Unfortunately, current large-scale sketching algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Amirali Aghazadeh , Vipul Gupta , Alex DeWeese , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Kannan Ramchandran