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Retrieving fine-grained visual content based on user intent remains a challenge in multi-modal systems. Although current Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) methods combine reference images with retrieval texts, they are constrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tong Wang , Guanyu Yang , Nian Liu , Zongyan Han , Jinxing Zhou , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

Instance retrieval requires one to search for images that contain a particular object within a large corpus. Recent studies show that using image features generated by pooling convolutional layer feature maps (CFMs) of a pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Jiewei Cao , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Zi Huang , Chunhua Shen , Heng Tao Shen

Query images presented to content-based image retrieval systems often have various different interpretations, making it difficult to identify the search objective pursued by the user. We propose a technique for overcoming this ambiguity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Björn Barz , Joachim Denzler

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

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems on pixel domain use low-level features, such as colour, texture and shape, to retrieve images. In this context, two types of image representations i.e. local and global image features have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Shrikant Temburwar , Bulla Rajesh , Mohammed Javed

As a fundamental visual attribute, image complexity significantly influences both human perception and the performance of computer vision models. However, accurately assessing and quantifying image complexity remains a challenging task. (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shipeng Liu , Liang Zhao , Dengfeng Chen

We propose a novel mode of feedback for image search, where a user describes which properties of exemplar images should be adjusted in order to more closely match his/her mental model of the image sought. For example, perusing image results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Adriana Kovashka , Devi Parikh , Kristen Grauman

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) with reference images have achieved great success by imitating the human vision system, in which the image quality is effectively assessed by comparing the query image with its pristine reference image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Xudong Li , Jingyuan Zheng , Xiawu Zheng , Runze Hu , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Yunhang Shen , Ke Li , Yutao Liu , Pingyang Dai , Yan Zhang , Rongrong Ji

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) presents a significant challenge as it requires jointly understanding a reference image and a modified textual instruction to find relevant target images. Some existing methods attempt to use a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jun Li , Hongjian Dou , Zhenyu Zhang , Kai Li , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao

Composed image retrieval aims to find an image that best matches a given multi-modal user query consisting of a reference image and text pair. Existing methods commonly pre-compute image embeddings over the entire corpus and compare these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zheyuan Liu , Weixuan Sun , Damien Teney , Stephen Gould

Information retrieval (IR) in dynamic data streams is a crucial task, as shifts in data distribution degrade the performance of AI-powered IR systems. To mitigate this issue, memory-based continual learning has been widely adopted for IR.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 HuiJeong Son , Hyeongu Kang , Sunho Kim , Subeen Ho , SeongKu Kang , Dongha Lee , Susik Yoon

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Self-supervised representation learning is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many useful applications (e.g., image search, instance level recognition, copy detection). In this paper we present a new contrastive self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 David Wu , Yunnan Wu

An adversarial query is an image that has been modified to disrupt content-based image retrieval (CBIR) while appearing nearly untouched to the human eye. This paper presents an analysis of adversarial queries for CBIR based on neural,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Zhuoran Liu , Zhengyu Zhao , Martha Larson

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images that closely resemble a reference image while integrating user-specified textual modifications, thereby capturing user intent more precisely. Existing training-free zero-shot CIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuanmin Tang , Xiaoting Qin , Jue Zhang , Jing Yu , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Qingwei Ling , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Wu

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) locates, retrieves and displays images alike to one given as a query, using a set of features. It demands accessible data in medical archives and from medical equipment, to infer meaning after some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Albany E. Herrmann , Vania Vieira Estrela

The explosive increase and ubiquitous accessibility of visual data on the Web have led to the prosperity of research activity in image search or retrieval. With the ignorance of visual content as a ranking clue, methods with text search…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that retrieves images using a query, which is configured with an image and a caption that describes desired modifications to that image. Supervised CIR approaches have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Young Kyun Jang , Dat Huynh , Ashish Shah , Wen-Kai Chen , Ser-Nam Lim