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Image retrieval with hybrid-modality queries, also known as composing text and image for image retrieval (CTI-IR), is a retrieval task where the search intention is expressed in a more complex query format, involving both vision and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yida Zhao , Yuqing Song , Qin Jin

Composed image retrieval which combines a reference image and a text modifier to identify the desired target image is a challenging task, and requires the model to comprehend both vision and language modalities and their interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

Due to an increase in the number of image achieves, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has gained attention for research community of computer vision. The image visual contents are represented in a feature space in the form of numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Atif Nazir , Kashif Nazir

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images by integrating a reference image with a corresponding modification text. CIR requires jointly considering the explicit semantics specified in the query and the implicit semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jiyoung Lim , Heejae Yang , Jee-Hyong Lee

Cross-modal retrieval aims to measure the content similarity between different types of data. The idea has been previously applied to visual, text, and speech data. In this paper, we present a novel cross-modal retrieval method specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Numan Khurshid , Talha Hanif , Mohbat Tharani , Murtaza Taj

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a pivotal and complex task in multimodal understanding. Current CIR benchmarks typically feature limited query categories and fail to capture the diverse requirements of real-world scenarios. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tingyu Song , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Zhuoning Guo , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao , Shu Wu

Composed Video Retrieval (CoVR) facilitates video retrieval by combining visual and textual queries. However, existing CoVR frameworks typically fuse multimodal inputs in a single stage, achieving only marginal gains over initial baseline.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yuqian Zheng , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu

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

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 cross-modal image retrieval, where the inputs contain a source image plus some text that describes certain modifications to this image and the desired image. Prior work usually uses a three-stage strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Chunbin Gu , Jiajun Bu , Xixi Zhou , Chengwei Yao , Dongfang Ma , Zhi Yu , Xifeng Yan

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) uses a reference image and a modification text as a query to retrieve a target image satisfying the requirement of ``modifying the reference image according to the text instructions''. However, existing CIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Guozhi Qiu , Zhiwei Chen , Zixu Li , Qinlei Huang , Zhiheng Fu , Xuemeng Song , Yupeng Hu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption that describes the difference between the two images. The high effort and cost required for labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

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

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) 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

Many image restoration (IR) tasks require both pixel-level fidelity and high-level semantic understanding to recover realistic photos with fine-grained details. However, previous approaches often struggle to effectively leverage both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Cuixin Yang , Rongkang Dong , Kin-Man Lam

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

Guided image restoration (GIR), such as guided depth map super-resolution and pan-sharpening, aims to enhance a target image using guidance information from another image of the same scene. Currently, joint image filtering-inspired deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xinyi Liu , Qian Zhao , Jie Liang , Hui Zeng , Deyu Meng , Lei Zhang

Most of the research in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) focus on developing robust feature representations that can effectively retrieve instances from a database of images that are visually similar to a query. However, the retrieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Aishwarya Venkataramanan , Martin Laviale , Cédric Pradalier