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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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm. It aims to retrieve target images from large-scale image databases that are consistent with the modification semantics, based on a multimodal query composed of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mingyu Zhang , Zixu Li , Zhiwei Chen , Zhiheng Fu , Xiaowei Zhu , Jiajia Nie , Yinwei Wei , Yupeng Hu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) represents a novel retrieval paradigm that is capable of expressing users' intricate retrieval requirements flexibly. It enables the user to give a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhiwei Chen , Yupeng Hu , Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image from a gallery using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modification text. Among various CIR approaches, training-free zero-shot methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jeong-Woo Park , Seong-Whan Lee

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

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) searches a corpus with a reference image and a text describing how to modify it. Despite rapid progress from triplet-trained compositors to zero-shot and generative methods, essentially all systems share one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Amsisan Tran , Baogh Le , Tuan Kiet Pham , Sui Yang Guang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) allows users to search for images by combining a reference image with a text prompt that describes desired modifications. While vision-language models like CLIP have popularized this task by embedding multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ioannis Dravilas , Ioannis Kapetangeorgis , Anastasios Latsoudis , Conor McCarthy , Gonçalo Marcelino , Marcel Worring

As a challenging vision-language (VL) task, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images using multimodal (image+text) queries. Although many existing CIR methods have attained promising performance, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haiwen Li , Delong Liu , Zhaohui Hou , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR), which aims to find a target image from a reference image and a modification text, presents the core challenge of performing unified reasoning across visual and semantic modalities. While current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Weihuang Lin , Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Composed image retrieval attempts to retrieve an image of interest from gallery images through a composed query of a reference image and its corresponding modified text. It has recently attracted attention due to the collaboration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shitong Sun , Fanghua Ye , Shaogang Gong

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pivotal next-generation technology, enabling users to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kun Zhang , Jingyu Li , Zhe Li , Jingjing Zhang , Fan Li , Yandong Liu , Rui Yan , Zihang Jiang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao , S. Kevin Zhou

Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image that depicts a reference image modified by a textual description. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) achieve promising CIR performance by embedding images and text into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 François Gardères , Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier , Jean Ponce , Shizhe Chen

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a task that retrieves images similar to a query, based on a provided textual modification. Current techniques rely on supervised learning for CIR models using labeled triplets of the reference image, text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Young Kyun Jang , Donghyun Kim , Zihang Meng , Dat Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim

The Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZSCIR) requires retrieving images that match the query image and the relative captions. Current methods focus on projecting the query image into the text feature space, subsequently combining them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 You Li , Fan Ma , Yi Yang

Composed image retrieval (CIR) enables users to search images using a reference image combined with textual modifications. Recent advances in vision-language models have improved CIR, but dataset limitations remain a barrier. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Pranavi Kolouju , Eric Xing , Robert Pless , Nathan Jacobs , Abby Stylianou

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that aims to retrieve images based on a multimodal query. Typical training data consists of triplets containing a reference image, a textual description of desired modifications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuong Huynh , Jinyu Yang , Ashish Tawari , Mubarak Shah , Son Tran , Raffay Hamid , Trishul Chilimbi , Abhinav Shrivastava

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve target images given a multimodal query (comprising a reference image and a modification text), without training on annotated triplets. Existing methods typically convert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tianyue Wang , Leigang Qu , Tianyu Yang , Xiangzhao Hao , Yifan Xu , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang