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Implicit neural representation (INR) has become the standard approach for arbitrary-scale image super-resolution (ASSR). To date, no empirical study has systematically examined the effectiveness of existing methods, nor investigated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tayyab Nasir , Daochang Liu , Ajmal Mian

Explaining deep learning models in a way that humans can easily understand is essential for responsible artificial intelligence applications. Attribution methods constitute an important area of explainable deep learning. The attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Michal Byra , Henrik Skibbe

Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning (efCIL) aims to continuously incorporate the knowledge from new classes while retaining previously learned information, without storing any old-class exemplars (i.e., samples). For this purpose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Libo Huang , Zhulin An , Yan Zeng , Chuanguang Yang , Xinqiang Yu , Yongjun Xu

Modern deep neural networks remain challenging to interpret due to the opacity of their latent representations, impeding model understanding, debugging, and debiasing. Concept Embedding Models (CEMs) address this by mapping inputs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Oscar Hill , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik

Unsupervised image classification, or image clustering, aims to group unlabeled images into semantically meaningful categories. Early methods integrated representation learning and clustering within an iterative framework. However, the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Melih Baydar , Emre Akbas

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

The recently advanced unsupervised learning approaches use the siamese-like framework to compare two "views" from the same image for learning representations. Making the two views distinctive is a core to guarantee that unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Zhuang Liu , Marios Savvides , Trevor Darrell , Eric Xing

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

Pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have recently shown superior performances on various downstream tasks, including image classification and segmentation. However, in fine-grained image re-identification (ReID), the labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Siyuan Li , Li Sun , Qingli Li

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Given a query consisting of a reference image and a relative caption, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images visually similar to the reference one while incorporating the changes specified in the relative caption. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Alberto Del Bimbo , Marco Bertini

This work addresses the task of multilabel image classification. Inspired by the great success from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for single-label visual-semantic embedding, we exploit extending these models for multilabel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yi-Nan Li , Mei-Chen Yeh

In recent years, semi-supervised learning (SSL) has shown tremendous success in leveraging unlabeled data to improve the performance of deep learning models, which significantly reduces the demand for large amounts of labeled data. Many SSL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Song-Bo Yang , Tian-li Yu

Information retrieval (IR) in dynamic data streams is a crucial task, as shifts in data distribution degrade the performance of AI-powered IR systems. To mitigate this issue, memory-based continual learning has been widely adopted for IR.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 HuiJeong Son , Hyeongu Kang , Sunho Kim , Subeen Ho , SeongKu Kang , Dongha Lee , Susik Yoon

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

A challenge of the computer vision community is to understand the semantics of an image, in order to allow image reconstruction based on existing high-level features or to better analyze (semi-)labelled datasets. Towards addressing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Savvas Karatsiolis , Andreas Kamilaris

Image clustering aims to group images in an unsupervised fashion. Traditional methods focus on knowledge from visual space, making it difficult to distinguish between visually similar but semantically different classes. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yijie Zhong , Yunfan Gao , Weipeng Jiang , Haofen Wang

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has been emerging in computer vision in recent years. It has been shown to be effective in parameterising continuous signals such as dense 3D models from discrete image data, e.g. the neural radius field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Wentian Xu , Jianbo Jiao

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have recently advanced the field of deep learning due to their ability to learn continuous representations of signals without the need for large training datasets. Although INR methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mevan Ekanayake , Zhifeng Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi , Zhaolin Chen

Human-centric visual analysis plays a pivotal role in diverse applications, including surveillance, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. With the emergence of large-scale unlabeled human image datasets, there is an increasing need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingshuang Luo , Ruibing Hou , Bo Chao , Hong Chang , Zimo Liu , Yaowei Wang , Shiguang Shan