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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to find a target image that aligns with user intent, expressed through a reference image and a modification text. While Zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR) methods sidestep the need for labeled training data by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Youjin Jung , Seongwoo Cho , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

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

Composed image retrieval (CIR) allows a user to locate a target image by applying a fine-grained textual edit (e.g., ``turn the dress blue'' or ``remove stripes'') to a reference image. Zero-shot CIR, which embeds the image and the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Santhosh Kakarla , Gautama Shastry Bulusu Venkata

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that aims to retrieve images based on a multimodal query. Typical training data consists of triplets containing a reference image, a textual description of desired modifications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuong Huynh , Jinyu Yang , Ashish Tawari , Mubarak Shah , Son Tran , Raffay Hamid , Trishul Chilimbi , Abhinav Shrivastava

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) provides an effective way to manage and access large-scale visual data. Construction of the CIR model utilizes triplets that consist of a reference image, modification text describing desired changes, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kenta Uesugi , Naoki Saito , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Recently, Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) has attracted the attention of the computer vision community due to it's real-world applications, and the more realistic and challenging setting than found in SBIR. ZS-SBIR inherits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Osman Tursun , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Ethan Goan , Clinton Fookes

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a task that retrieves images similar to a query, based on a provided textual modification. Current techniques rely on supervised learning for CIR models using labeled triplets of the reference image, text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Young Kyun Jang , Donghyun Kim , Zihang Meng , Dat Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim

Different from Composed Image Retrieval task that requires expensive labels for training task-specific models, Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) involves diverse tasks with a broad range of visual content manipulation intent that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yuanmin Tang , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Gang Xiong , Yue Hu , Qi Wu

Training-free zero-shot composed image retrieval models are recently gaining increasing research interest due to their generalizability and flexibility in unseen multimodal retrieval. Recent LLM-based advances focus on generating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Miaoge Li , Dongsheng Wang , Zening Sun , Jinsen Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Jingcai Guo

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) involves searching for target images based on an image-text pair query. While current methods treat this as a query-target matching problem, we argue that CIR triplets contain additional associations beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xintong Jiang , Yaxiong Wang , Mengjian Li , Yujiao Wu , Bingwen Hu , Xueming Qian

Composed Image Retrieval (CoIR) has recently gained popularity as a task that considers both text and image queries together, to search for relevant images in a database. Most CoIR approaches require manually annotated datasets, comprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Lucas Ventura , Antoine Yang , Cordelia Schmid , Gül Varol

Existing Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) methods typically train adapters that convert reference images into pseudo-text tokens, which are concatenated with the modifying text and processed by frozen text encoders in pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rong-Cheng Tu , Zhao Jin , Jingyi Liao , Xiao Luo , Yingjie Wang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we study the problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR). The prior methods tackle the problem in a two-modality setting with only category labels or even no textual information involved. However, the growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hanwen Su , Ge Song , Kai Huang , Jiyan Wang , Ming Yang

Zero-shot learning offers an efficient solution for a machine learning model to treat unseen categories, avoiding exhaustive data collection. Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) simulates real-world scenarios where it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Eunyi Lyou , Doyeon Lee , Jooeun Kim , Joonseok Lee

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving specific images by using a query that involves both a reference image and a relative caption. Most existing CIR models adopt the late-fusion strategy to combine visual and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yang Bai , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Fahad Khan , Wangmeng Zuo , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Chun-Mei Feng

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) enables image search using a reference image and a text prompt without requiring specialized text-image composition networks trained on large-scale paired data. However, current ZS-CIR approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Osman Tursun , Sinan Kalkan , Simon Denman , Clinton Fookes

Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image that depicts a reference image modified by a textual description. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) achieve promising CIR performance by embedding images and text into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 François Gardères , Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier , Jean Ponce , Shizhe Chen

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables fine-grained visual search by combining a reference image with a textual modification. While supervised CIR methods achieve high accuracy, their reliance on costly triplet annotations motivates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xin Wang , Haipeng Zhang , Mang Li , Zhaohui Xia , Yueguo Chen , Yu Zhang , Chunyu Wei

Low-resource domains, characterized by scarce data and annotations, present significant challenges for language and visual understanding tasks, with the latter much under-explored in the literature. Recent advancements in Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Nicola Dall'Asen , Yiming Wang , Enrico Fini , Elisa Ricci