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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image from a gallery using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modification text. Among various CIR approaches, training-free zero-shot methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jeong-Woo Park , Seong-Whan Lee

Retrieving fine-grained visual content based on user intent remains a challenge in multi-modal systems. Although current Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) methods combine reference images with retrieval texts, they are constrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tong Wang , Guanyu Yang , Nian Liu , Zongyan Han , Jinxing Zhou , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

In this paper, we consider the problem of composed image retrieval (CIR), it aims to train a model that can fuse multi-modal information, e.g., text and images, to accurately retrieve images that match the query, extending the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yikun Liu , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a pivotal and complex task in multimodal understanding. Current CIR benchmarks typically feature limited query categories and fail to capture the diverse requirements of real-world scenarios. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tingyu Song , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Zhuoning Guo , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao , Shu Wu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image from a database using a multimodal query, which consists of a reference image and a modification text. The text specifies how to alter the reference image to form a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tong Wang , Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong

This work introduces composed image retrieval to remote sensing. It allows to query a large image archive by image examples alternated by a textual description, enriching the descriptive power over unimodal queries, either visual or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bill Psomas , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Nikos Efthymiadis , Giorgos Tolias , Ondrej Chum , Yannis Avrithis , Konstantinos Karantzalos

Composed image retrieval (CIR) searches a corpus with a reference image and a text describing how to modify it. Despite rapid progress from triplet-trained compositors to zero-shot and generative methods, essentially all systems share one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Amsisan Tran , Baogh Le , Tuan Kiet Pham , Sui Yang Guang

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

The Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZSCIR) requires retrieving images that match the query image and the relative captions. Current methods focus on projecting the query image into the text feature space, subsequently combining them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 You Li , Fan Ma , Yi Yang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a cross-modal task that aims to retrieve target images from large-scale databases using a reference image and a modification text. Most existing methods rely on a single model to perform feature fusion and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yawei Cai , Jiapeng Mi , Nan Ji , Haotian Rong , Yawei Zhang , Zhangti Li , Wenbin Guo , Rensong Xie

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search for a target image by concurrently comprehending the composition of an example image and a complementary text, which potentially impacts a wide variety of real-world applications, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Wenqiao Zhang , Jiannan Guo , Mengze Li , Haochen Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images that closely resemble a reference image while integrating user-specified textual modifications, thereby capturing user intent more precisely. Existing training-free zero-shot CIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuanmin Tang , Xiaoting Qin , Jue Zhang , Jing Yu , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Qingwei Ling , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Wu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) has demonstrated significant potential by enabling flexible multimodal queries that combine a reference image and modification text. However, CIR inherently prioritizes semantic matching, struggling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuxin Yang , Yinan Zhou , Yuxin Chen , Ziqi Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Jun Gao , Weiming Hu

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) is a rapidly growing area with significant practical applications, allowing users to retrieve a target image by providing a reference image and a relative caption describing the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yongcong Ye , Kai Zhang , Yanghai Zhang , Enhong Chen , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images based on a reference image and modified texts. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xuri Ge , Chunhao Wang , Xindi Wang , Zheyun Qin , Zhumin Chen , Xin Xin

Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image paired with corresponding modification text. Recent CIR studies leverage vision-language pre-trained (VLP) methods as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Xiaolin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Retrieval is being redefined by agentic AI, demanding multimodal reasoning beyond conventional similarity-based paradigms. Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) exemplifies this shift as each query combines a reference image with textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhongyu Yang , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) allows users to search for images by combining a reference image with a text prompt that describes desired modifications. While vision-language models like CLIP have popularized this task by embedding multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ioannis Dravilas , Ioannis Kapetangeorgis , Anastasios Latsoudis , Conor McCarthy , Gonçalo Marcelino , Marcel Worring

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is a vision language task that retrieves a target image using a reference image and modification text, enabling intuitive specification of desired changes. While effectively fusing visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jeong-Woo Park , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang