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In this work, we address multi-modal information needs that contain text questions and images by focusing on passage retrieval for outside-knowledge visual question answering. This task requires access to outside knowledge, which in our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Chen Qu , Hamed Zamani , Liu Yang , W. Bruce Croft , Erik Learned-Miller

We propose a deep hashing framework for sketch retrieval that, for the first time, works on a multi-million scale human sketch dataset. Leveraging on this large dataset, we explore a few sketch-specific traits that were otherwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Peng Xu , Yongye Huang , Tongtong Yuan , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is a crucial task in multimedia retrieval, where the goal is to retrieve a set of images that match a given sketch query. Researchers have already proposed several well-performing solutions for this task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Omar Seddati , Nathan Hubens , Stéphane Dupont , Thierry Dutoit

Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been limited to that of image retrieval. In this paper, for the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

The retrieval of 3D objects has gained significant importance in recent years due to its broad range of applications in computer vision, computer graphics, virtual reality, and augmented reality. However, the retrieval of 3D objects…

The rapid development of the autonomous driving industry has led to a significant accumulation of autonomous driving data. Consequently, there comes a growing demand for retrieving data to provide specialized optimization. However, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Tao Tang , Dafeng Wei , Zhengyu Jia , Tian Gao , Changwei Cai , Chengkai Hou , Peng Jia , Kun Zhan , Haiyang Sun , Jingchen Fan , Yixing Zhao , Fu Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Xianpeng Lang , Yang Wang

Despite advances in multimodal learning, challenging benchmarks for mixed-modal image retrieval that combines visual and textual information are lacking. This paper introduces a novel benchmark to rigorously evaluate image retrieval that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Cristian-Ioan Blaga , Paul Suganthan , Sahil Dua , Krishna Srinivasan , Enrique Alfonseca , Peter Dornbach , Tom Duerig , Imed Zitouni , Zhe Dong

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

Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) has been regarded as an important pre-processing task for text recognition from low-resolution scene text images. Most recent approaches use the recognizer's feedback as clues to guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Minyi Zhao , Miao Wang , Fan Bai , Bingjia Li , Jie Wang , Shuigeng Zhou

Query-based image retrieval (QBIR) requires retrieving relevant images given diverse and often stylistically heterogeneous queries, such as sketches, artworks, or low-resolution previews. While large-scale vision--language representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yujia Cai , Boxuan Li , Chenghao Xu , Jiexi Yan

Despite the dominance of convolutional and transformer-based architectures in image-to-image retrieval, these models are prone to biases arising from low-level visual features, such as color. Recognizing the lack of semantic understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nikolaos Chaidos , Angeliki Dimitriou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Text-to-image multimodal tasks, generating/retrieving an image from a given text description, are extremely challenging tasks since raw text descriptions cover quite limited information in order to fully describe visually realistic images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Siwen Luo , Kunze Wang , Josiah Poon

We propose and evaluate several triplet CNN architectures for measuring the similarity between sketches and photographs, within the context of the sketch based image retrieval (SBIR) task. In contrast to recent fine-grained SBIR work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tu Bui , Leonardo Ribeiro , Moacir Ponti , John Collomosse

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

LiveSketch is a novel algorithm for searching large image collections using hand-sketched queries. LiveSketch tackles the inherent ambiguity of sketch search by creating visual suggestions that augment the query as it is drawn, making query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 John Collomosse , Tu Bui , Hailin Jin

The scarcity of free-hand sketch presents a challenging problem. Despite the emergence of some large-scale sketch datasets, these datasets primarily consist of sketches at the single-object level. There continues to be a lack of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhenbei Wu , Qiang Wang , Jie Yang

Natural language object retrieval is a highly useful yet challenging task for robots in human-centric environments. Previous work has primarily focused on commands specifying the desired object's type such as "scissors" and/or visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Thao Nguyen , Nakul Gopalan , Roma Patel , Matt Corsaro , Ellie Pavlick , Stefanie Tellex

Cross-modal retrieval between visual data and natural language description remains a long-standing challenge in multimedia. While recent image-text retrieval methods offer great promise by learning deep representations aligned across…

Sketch-based image retrieval, which aims to use sketches as queries to retrieve images containing the same query instance, receives increasing attention in recent years. Although dramatic progress has been made in sketch retrieval, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Binbin Feng , Jun Li , Jianhua Xu

Image-sentence retrieval has attracted extensive research attention in multimedia and computer vision due to its promising application. The key issue lies in jointly learning the visual and textual representation to accurately estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xuri Ge , Fuhai Chen , Songpei Xu , Fuxiang Tao , Joemon M. Jose