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Generating images from textual descriptions has recently attracted a lot of interest. While current models can generate photo-realistic images of individual objects such as birds and human faces, synthesising images with multiple objects is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Stanislav Frolov , Shailza Jolly , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) seeks to find a target image using a multi-modal query, which combines an image with modification text to pinpoint the target. While recent CIR methods have shown promise, they mainly focus on exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Peng Gao , Yujian Lee , Zailong Chen , Hui zhang , Xubo Liu , Yiyang Hu , Guquang Jing

Image captioning aims at automatically generating descriptions of an image in natural language. This is a challenging problem in the field of artificial intelligence that has recently received significant attention in the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Hassan Maleki Galandouz , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Mehrnoush Shamsfard

Retrieval-based multi-image question answering (QA) task involves retrieving multiple question-related images and synthesizing these images to generate an answer. Conventional "retrieve-then-answer" pipelines often suffer from cascading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Peize Li , Qingyi Si , Peng Fu , Zheng Lin , Yan 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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) involves retrieving a target image based on a composed query of an image paired with text that specifies modifications or changes to the visual reference. CIR is inherently an instruction-following task, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Wenliang Zhong , Weizhi An , Feng Jiang , Hehuan Ma , Yuzhi Guo , Junzhou Huang

The Visual Object Information Retrieval (VOIR) system described in this paper implements an image retrieval approach that combines two layers, the conceptual and the visual layer. It uses terms from a textual thesaurus to represent the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Jose Torres , Luis Paulo Reis

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a complex semantic task requiring both natural language processing and visual recognition. In this paper, we explore whether VQA is solvable when images are captured in a sub-Nyquist compressive paradigm.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Li-Chi Huang , Kuldeep Kulkarni , Anik Jha , Suhas Lohit , Suren Jayasuriya , Pavan Turaga

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) retrieves target images using a multi-modal query that combines a reference image with text describing desired modifications. The primary challenge is effectively fusing this visual and textual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Chaoyang Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Long Teng , Zijun Li , Shichao Kan

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 (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

Content Based Image Retrieval(CBIR) is one of the important subfield in the field of Information Retrieval. The goal of a CBIR algorithm is to retrieve semantically similar images in response to a query image submitted by the end user. CBIR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Vikas Verma

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

Problems at the intersection of vision and language are of significant importance both as challenging research questions and for the rich set of applications they enable. However, inherent structure in our world and bias in our language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yash Goyal , Tejas Khot , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Composed image retrieval (CIR), which formulates the query as a combination of a reference image and modified text, has emerged as a new form of image search due to its enhanced ability to capture user intent. However, training a CIR model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ren-Di Wu , Yu-Yen Lin , Huei-Fang Yang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a cross-modal task that aims to retrieve target images from large-scale databases using a reference image and a modification text. Most existing methods rely on a single model to perform feature fusion and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yawei Cai , Jiapeng Mi , Nan Ji , Haotian Rong , Yawei Zhang , Zhangti Li , Wenbin Guo , Rensong Xie

Inspired by retrieval-augmented language generation and pretrained Vision and Language (V&L) encoders, we present a new approach to image captioning that generates sentences given the input image and a set of captions retrieved from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rita Ramos , Desmond Elliott , Bruno Martins

Immersive Computer Graphics (CGs) rendering has become ubiquitous in modern daily life. However, comprehensively evaluating CG quality remains challenging for two reasons: First, existing CG datasets lack systematic descriptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhuangzi Li , Jian Jin , Shilv Cai , Weisi Lin

We propose the inverse problem of Visual question answering (iVQA), and explore its suitability as a benchmark for visuo-linguistic understanding. The iVQA task is to generate a question that corresponds to a given image and answer pair.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun