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Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image specified by a query image and a relative text that describes a semantic modification to the query image. Existing methods in CIR struggle to accurately represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Eric Xing , Pranavi Kolouju , Robert Pless , Abby Stylianou , Nathan Jacobs

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

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a reference image and a text description without requiring in-distribution triplets for training. One prevalent approach follows the vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zining Chen , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shijian Lu

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a task of cross-domain image retrieval from a natural image gallery with free-hand sketch under a zero-shot scenario. Previous works mostly focus on a generative approach that takes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Hao Wang , Cheng Deng , Xinxu Xu , Wei Liu , Xinbo Gao , Dacheng Tao

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables users to search for target images using both a reference image and manipulation text, offering substantial advantages over single-modality retrieval systems. However, existing CIR methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhipeng Qian , Zihan Liang , Yufei Ma , Ben Chen , Huangyu Dai , Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Chenyi Lei , Han Li , Xiaoshuai Sun

Training-free zero-shot composed image retrieval models are recently gaining increasing research interest due to their generalizability and flexibility in unseen multimodal retrieval. Recent LLM-based advances focus on generating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Miaoge Li , Dongsheng Wang , Zening Sun , Jinsen Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Jingcai Guo

Composed image retrieval (CIR) task takes a composed query of image and text, aiming to search relative images for both conditions. Conventional CIR approaches need a training dataset composed of triplets of query image, query text, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Geonmo Gu , Sanghyuk Chun , Wonjae Kim , Yoohoon Kang , Sangdoo Yun

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a multimodal retrieval task where a query consists of a reference image and a textual modification, and the goal is to retrieve a target image satisfying both. In principle, strong performance on CIR…

Composed image retrieval (CIR) allows a user to locate a target image by applying a fine-grained textual edit (e.g., ``turn the dress blue'' or ``remove stripes'') to a reference image. Zero-shot CIR, which embeds the image and the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Santhosh Kakarla , Gautama Shastry Bulusu Venkata

The goal of Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is using free-hand sketches to retrieve images of the same category from a natural image gallery. However, SBIR requires all test categories to be seen during training, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jiangtong Li , Zhixin Ling , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

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

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is an emerging task in computer vision, allowing to retrieve natural images relevant to sketch queries that might not been seen in the training phase. Existing works either require aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Anjan Dutta , Zeynep Akata

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves relevant images based on a reference image and accompanying text describing desired modifications. However, existing CIR methods only focus on retrieving the target image and disregard the relevance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jaehyun Kwak , Ramahdani Muhammad Izaaz Inhar , Se-Young Yun , Sung-Ju Lee

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images from candidate set using a hybrid-modality query consisting of a reference image and a relative caption that describes the user intent. Recent studies attempt to utilize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zelong Sun , Dong Jing , Guoxing Yang , Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu

In this paper, we consider the problem of composed image retrieval (CIR), it aims to train a model that can fuse multi-modal information, e.g., text and images, to accurately retrieve images that match the query, extending the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yikun Liu , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

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) 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

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

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