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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) uses a reference image plus a natural-language edit to retrieve images that apply the requested change while preserving other relevant visual content. Classic fusion pipelines typically rely on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guoyizhe Wei , Yang Jiao , Nan Xi , Zhishen Huang , Jingjing Meng , Rama Chellappa , Yan Gao

Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging cross-modal retrieval task. In prior arts, the retrieval is conducted by sorting the distance between the query sketch and each image in the gallery. However, the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuchen Wu , Kun Song , Fangzheng Zhao , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) presents a significant challenge as it requires jointly understanding a reference image and a modified textual instruction to find relevant target images. Some existing methods attempt to use a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jun Li , Hongjian Dou , Zhenyu Zhang , Kai Li , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao

The composed image retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve the desired target image for a given multimodal query, i.e., a reference image with its corresponding modification text. The key limitations encountered by existing efforts are two…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

The task of composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve images based on the query image and the text describing the users' intent. Existing methods have made great progress with the advanced large vision-language (VL) model in CIR task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yongchao Du , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Shuping Hui , Houqiang Li

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

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a task of cross-domain image retrieval from a natural image gallery with free-hand sketch under a zero-shot scenario. Previous works mostly focus on a generative approach that takes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Hao Wang , Cheng Deng , Xinxu Xu , Wei Liu , Xinbo Gao , Dacheng Tao

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a query composed of a reference image, and a relative caption that specifies the desired modification. Despite the rapid development of CIR models, their performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yikun Liu , Jiangchao Yao , Weidi Xie , Yanfeng Wang

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a specific cross-modal retrieval task for retrieving natural images with free-hand sketches under zero-shot scenario. Previous works mostly focus on modeling the correspondence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Xinxun Xu , Hao Wang , Leida Li , Cheng Deng

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

This paper studies the problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR), which aims to use sketches from unseen categories as queries to match the images of the same category. Due to the large cross-modality discrepancy, ZS-SBIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Decheng Liu , Xu Luo , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) relies on free-hand sketches to retrieve natural photos within the same class. However, its practical application is limited by its inability to retrieve classes absent from the training set. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

The Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging task because of the large domain gap between sketches and natural images as well as the semantic inconsistency between seen and unseen categories. Previous literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Yu-Wei Zhan , Xin Luo , Yongxin Wang , Zhen-Duo Chen , Xin-Shun Xu

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is the task of retrieving images from a natural image database that correspond to a given hand-drawn sketch. Ideally, an SBIR model should learn to associate components in the sketch (say, feet, tail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Sasi Kiran Yelamarthi , Shiva Krishna Reddy , Ashish Mishra , Anurag Mittal

The goal of Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is using free-hand sketches to retrieve images of the same category from a natural image gallery. However, SBIR requires all test categories to be seen during training, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jiangtong Li , Zhixin Ling , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

This paper tackles the Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) problem from the viewpoint of cross-modality metric learning. This task has two characteristics: 1) the zero-shot setting requires a metric space with good within-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Zongheng Huang , YiFan Sun , Chuchu Han , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

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) addresses the task of retrieving a target image by jointly interpreting a reference image and a modification text that specifies the intended change. Most existing methods are still built upon contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Geon Park , Ji-Hoon Park , Seong-Whan Lee

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a specific cross-modal retrieval task for searching natural images given free-hand sketches under the zero-shot scenario. Most existing methods solve this problem by simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Xinxun Xu , Muli Yang , Yanhua Yang , Hao Wang