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We address the problem of retrieving images with both a sketch and a text query. We present TASK-former (Text And SKetch transformer), an end-to-end trainable model for image retrieval using a text description and a sketch as input. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Patsorn Sangkloy , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Diyi Yang , James Hays

With the rise of multimodal learning, image retrieval plays a crucial role in connecting visual information with natural language queries. Existing image retrievers struggle with processing long texts and handling unclear user expressions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuan Hu , ZhiYu Cao , PeiFeng Li , QiaoMing Zhu

Image-based retrieval in large Earth observation archives is challenging because one needs to navigate across thousands of candidate matches only with the query image as a guide. By using text as information supporting the visual query, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Li Mi , Xianjie Dai , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia

Proliferation of touch-based devices has made sketch-based image retrieval practical. While many methods exist for sketch-based object detection/image retrieval on small datasets, relatively less work has been done on large (web)-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Sarthak Parui , Anurag Mittal

Visual media has always been the most enjoyed way of communication. From the advent of television to the modern day hand held computers, we have witnessed the exponential growth of images around us. Undoubtedly it's a fact that they carry a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Jamil Ahmad , Muhammad Sajjad , Irfan Mehmood , Seungmin Rho , Sung Wook Baik

Audio carries richer information than text, including emotion, speaker traits, and environmental context, while also enabling lower-latency processing compared to speech-to-text pipelines. However, recent multimodal information retrieval…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Tong Zhao , Chenghao Zhang , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

In a Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) System, the task is to retrieve similar images from a large database given a query image. The usual procedure is to extract some useful features from the query image, and retrieve images which have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Subhadip Maji , Smarajit Bose

Recent advancements in dialogue systems have highlighted the significance of integrating multimodal responses, which enable conveying ideas through diverse modalities rather than solely relying on text-based interactions. This enrichment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chang-Sheng Kao , Yun-Nung Chen

Multimodal chatbots have become one of the major topics for dialogue systems in both research community and industry. Recently, researchers have shed light on the multimodality of responses as well as dialogue contexts. This work explores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seongbo Jang , Seonghyeon Lee , Dongha Lee , Hwanjo Yu

Modern organizations frequently rely on chat-based platforms (e.g., Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord) for day-to-day communication and decision-making. As conversations evolve, organizational knowledge can get buried, prompting repeated…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Sangwook Lee , Adnan Abbas , Yan Chen , Sang Won Lee

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) locates, retrieves and displays images alike to one given as a query, using a set of features. It demands accessible data in medical archives and from medical equipment, to infer meaning after some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Albany E. Herrmann , Vania Vieira Estrela

The objective of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) methods is essentially to extract, from large (image) databases, a specified number of images similar in visual and semantic content to a so-called query image. To bridge the semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Smarajit Bose , Amita Pal , Jhimli Mallick , Sunil Kumar , Pratyaydipta Rudra

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables users to search for target images using both a reference image and manipulation text, offering substantial advantages over single-modality retrieval systems. However, existing CIR methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhipeng Qian , Zihan Liang , Yufei Ma , Ben Chen , Huangyu Dai , Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Chenyi Lei , Han Li , Xiaoshuai Sun

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve the target image with a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image, and its complementary modification text. As previous supervised or zero-shot learning paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Bohan Hou , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Meng Liu , Mingzhu Xu , Xuemeng Song

Given a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption, the Composed Image Retrieval goal is to retrieve images visually similar to the reference one that integrates the modifications expressed by the caption. Given that recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Alberto Baldrati , Marco Bertini , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto del Bimbo

Explanatory images play a pivotal role in accessible and easy-to-read (E2R) texts. However, the images available in online databases are not tailored toward the respective texts, and the creation of customized images is expensive. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Miriam Anschütz , Tringa Sylaj , Georg Groh

Basic group of visual techniques such as color, shape, texture are used in Content Based Image Retrievals (CBIR) to retrieve query image or subregion of image to find similar images in image database. To improve query result, relevance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Mohini P. Sardey , G. K. Kharate

Most existing image retrieval systems use text queries as a way for the user to express what they are looking for. However, fine-grained image retrieval often requires the ability to also express where in the image the content they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Soravit Changpinyo , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Vittorio Ferrari , Radu Soricut

Cinematographers adeptly capture the essence of the world, crafting compelling visual narratives through intricate camera movements. Witnessing the strides made by large language models in perceiving and interacting with the 3D world, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang