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In this paper, we investigate the task of general conversational image retrieval on open-domain images. The objective is to search for images based on interactive conversations between humans and computers. To advance this task, we curate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zijia Zhao , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Erdong Hu , Shuai Shao , Zehuan Yuan , Hua Huang , Jing Liu

This paper addresses the task of interactive, conversational text-to-image retrieval. Our DIR-TIR framework progressively refines the target image search through two specialized modules: the Dialog Refiner Module and the Image Refiner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zongwei Zhen , Biqing Zeng

We present a new human-human dialogue dataset - PhotoChat, the first dataset that casts light on the photo sharing behavior in onlin emessaging. PhotoChat contains 12k dialogues, each of which is paired with a user photo that is shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiaoxue Zang , Lijuan Liu , Maria Wang , Yang Song , Hao Zhang , Jindong Chen

This work aims to create a multimodal AI system that chats with humans and shares relevant photos. While earlier works were limited to dialogues about specific objects or scenes within images, recent works have incorporated images into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Min Young Lee

Existing methods for interactive image retrieval have demonstrated the merit of integrating user feedback, improving retrieval results. However, most current systems rely on restricted forms of user feedback, such as binary relevance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Xiaoxiao Guo , Hui Wu , Yu Cheng , Steven Rennie , Gerald Tesauro , Rogerio Schmidt Feris

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

In this paper, we primarily address the issue of dialogue-form context query within the interactive text-to-image retrieval task. Our methodology, PlugIR, actively utilizes the general instruction-following capability of LLMs in two ways.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Saehyung Lee , Sangwon Yu , Junsung Park , Jihun Yi , Sungroh Yoon

This paper proposes a novel zero-shot composed image retrieval (CIR) method considering the query-target relationship by masked image-text pairs. The objective of CIR is to retrieve the target image using a query image and a query text.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Huaying Zhang , Rintaro Yanagi , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on text-to-image retrieval benchmarks. However, bridging this success to real-world applications remains a challenge. In practice, human search behavior is rarely a one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Diji Yang , Minghao Liu , Chung-Hsiang Lo , Yi Zhang , James Davis

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

Person re-identification (Re-ID) is a crucial task in computer vision, aiming to recognize individuals across non-overlapping camera views. While recent advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in logical reasoning and multi-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ke Niu , Haiyang Yu , Mengyang Zhao , Teng Fu , Siyang Yi , Wei Lu , Bin Li , Xuelin Qian , Xiangyang Xue

To achieve the long-term goal of machines being able to engage humans in conversation, our models should captivate the interest of their speaking partners. Communication grounded in images, whereby a dialogue is conducted based on a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Kurt Shuster , Samuel Humeau , Antoine Bordes , Jason Weston

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

Asking insightful questions is crucial for acquiring knowledge and expanding our understanding of the world. However, the importance of questioning has been largely overlooked in AI research, where models have been primarily developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Deyao Zhu , Jun Chen , Kilichbek Haydarov , Xiaoqian Shen , Wenxuan Zhang , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Different from traditional text-to-image retrieval tasks, chat-based image retrieval allows the human-interactive system to iteratively clarify and refine user intent through multi-round dialogue, thereby achieving more fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianke Chen , Daizong Liu , Yushuo Lou , Xin Tan , Xun Yang , Shuhui Wang , Xun Wang , Jianfeng Dong

A conversational information retrieval (CIR) system is an information retrieval (IR) system with a conversational interface which allows users to interact with the system to seek information via multi-turn conversations of natural language,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jianfeng Gao , Chenyan Xiong , Paul Bennett , Nick Craswell

Conversational search requires accurate interpretation of user intent from complex multi-turn contexts. This paper presents ChatRetriever, which inherits the strong generalization capability of large language models to robustly represent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kelong Mao , Chenlong Deng , Haonan Chen , Fengran Mo , Zheng Liu , Tetsuya Sakai , Zhicheng Dou

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving images matching a reference image augmented with a text, where the text describes changes to the reference image in natural language. Traditionally, models designed for CIR have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiqun Duan , Sameera Ramasinghe , Stephen Gould , Ajanthan Thalaiyasingam

Text-to-image retrieval aims to find the relevant images based on a text query, which is important in various use-cases, such as digital libraries, e-commerce, and multimedia databases. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zijun Long , Xuri Ge , Richard Mccreadie , Joemon Jose

Human computer conversation is regarded as one of the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence. In this paper, we address one of its key sub-problems, referred to as short text conversation, in which given a message from human,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Zongcheng Ji , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li
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