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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

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

Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) addresses the problem of retrieving a particular photo instance given a user's query sketch. Its widespread applicability is however hindered by the fact that drawing a sketch takes time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

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

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 Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a reference image and a text description without requiring in-distribution triplets for training. One prevalent approach follows the vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zining Chen , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

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

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption that describes the difference between the two images. The high effort and cost required for labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been limited to that of image retrieval. In this paper, for the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Zero-shot image recognition (ZSIR) aims to recognize and reason in unseen domains by learning generalized knowledge from limited data in the seen domain. The gist of ZSIR is constructing a well-aligned mapping between the input visual space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jingcai Guo , Zhijie Rao , Zhi Chen , Song Guo , Jingren Zhou , Dacheng Tao

Sketch as an image search query is an ideal alternative to text in capturing the fine-grained visual details. Prior successes on fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) have demonstrated the importance of tackling the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

In this paper, we delve into the intricate dynamics of Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) by addressing a critical yet overlooked aspect -- the choice of viewpoint during sketch creation. Unlike photo systems that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims to minimize the distance between sketches and corresponding images in the embedding space. However, scalability is hindered by the growing complexity of solutions, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Jiang , Hao Tang , Zhilin Jiang , Weiren Yu , Di Wu

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image given a reference image and a relative text, without relying on costly triplet annotations. Existing CLIP-based methods face two core challenges: (1) union-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqi Xiao , Yingying Zhu

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is an emerging research that aims to solve the classification problems with very few training data. The present works on ZSL mainly focus on the mapping of learning semantic space to visual space. It encounters many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Zeng Ting , Xiang Hongxin , Xie Cheng , Yang Yun , Liu Qing

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a challenging task due to the large cross-domain gap between sketches and natural images. How to align abstract sketches and natural images into a common high-level semantic space remains a key problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Jianjun Lei , Yuxin Song , Bo Peng , Zhanyu Ma , Ling Shao , Yi-Zhe Song

Effectively and efficiently retrieving images from remote sensing databases is a critical challenge in the realm of remote sensing big data. Utilizing hand-drawn sketches as retrieval inputs offers intuitive and user-friendly advantages,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Bo Yang , Chen Wang , Xiaoshuang Ma , Beiping Song , Zhuang Liu , Fangde Sun

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from novel unseen classes without any training data. Recently, structure-transfer based methods are proposed to implement ZSL by transferring structural knowledge from the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Bo Zhao , Xinwei Sun , Yuan Yao , Yizhou Wang

We introduce a novel problem of scene sketch zero-shot learning (SSZSL), which is a challenging task, since (i) different from photo, the gap between common semantic domain (e.g., word vector) and sketch is too huge to exploit common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yao Xie , Peng Xu , Zhanyu Ma