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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 (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

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) is a vision language task that retrieves a target image using a reference image and modification text, enabling intuitive specification of desired changes. While effectively fusing visual and textual…

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

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

The goal of Text-to-Image Person Retrieval (TIPR) is to retrieve specific person images according to the given textual descriptions. A primary challenge in this task is bridging the substantial representational gap between visual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Delong Liu , Haiwen Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Yuan Dong

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images from a gallery based on a reference image and modification text as a combined query. Recent approaches focus on balancing global information from two modalities and encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuxin Yang , Yinan Zhou , Yuxin Chen , Ziqi Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Lin Song , Jun Gao , Peng Li , Weiming Hu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm that enables to retrieve target images based on multimodal queries consisting of reference images and modification texts. Although substantial progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiwei Chen , Yupeng Hu , Zhiheng Fu , Zixu Li , Jiale Huang , Qinlei Huang , Yinwei Wei

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

In tissue characterization and cancer diagnostics, multimodal imaging has emerged as a powerful technique. Thanks to computational advances, large datasets can be exploited to discover patterns in pathologies and improve diagnosis. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Eva Breznik , Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) allows users to search target images with a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text that describes the user's modification demand over the reference image. Nevertheless, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Meng Liu , Yupeng Hu , Liqiang Nie

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) 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

The composed image retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve the desired target image for a given multimodal query, i.e., a reference image with its corresponding modification text. The key limitations encountered by existing efforts are two…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

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) aims to search an image of interest using a combination of a reference image and modification text as the query. Despite recent advancements, this task remains challenging due to limited training data and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yinan Zhou , Yaxiong Wang , Haokun Lin , Chen Ma , Li Zhu , Zhedong Zheng

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

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search for a target image by concurrently comprehending the composition of an example image and a complementary text, which potentially impacts a wide variety of real-world applications, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Wenqiao Zhang , Jiannan Guo , Mengze Li , Haochen Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Composed image retrieval searches for a target image based on a multi-modal user query comprised of a reference image and modification text describing the desired changes. Existing approaches to solving this challenging task learn a mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zheyuan Liu , Weixuan Sun , Yicong Hong , Damien Teney , Stephen Gould