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This paper presents the first exploration of text-to-image diffusion models for zero-shot sketch-based 3D shape retrieval (ZS-SBSR). Existing sketch-based 3D shape retrieval methods struggle in zero-shot settings due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Hang Cheng , Fanhe Dong , Long Zeng

Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging cross-modal retrieval task. In prior arts, the retrieval is conducted by sorting the distance between the query sketch and each image in the gallery. However, the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yuchen Wu , Kun Song , Fangzheng Zhao , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

The huge domain gap between sketches and photos and the highly abstract sketch representations pose challenges for sketch-based image retrieval (\underline{SBIR}). The zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (\underline{ZS-SBIR}) is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hao Ren , Ziqiang Zheng , Yang Wu , Hong Lu , Yang Yang , Ying Shan , Sai-Kit Yeung

In this paper, we leverage CLIP for zero-shot sketch based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We are largely inspired by recent advances on foundation models and the unparalleled generalisation ability they seem to offer, but for the first time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims to minimize the distance between sketches and corresponding images in the embedding space. However, scalability is hindered by the growing complexity of solutions, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Jiang , Hao Tang , Zhilin Jiang , Weiren Yu , Di Wu

In this paper, we investigate the problem of zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR), where human sketches are used as queries to conduct retrieval of photos from unseen categories. We importantly advance prior arts by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Sounak Dey , Pau Riba , Anjan Dutta , Josep Llados , Yi-Zhe Song

Sketch-an-Anchor is a novel method to train state-of-the-art Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZSSBIR) models in under an epoch. Most studies break down the problem of ZSSBIR into two parts: domain alignment between images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro , Moacir Antonelli Ponti

Conventional approaches to Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) assume that the data of all the classes are available during training. The assumption may not always be practical since the data of a few classes may be unavailable, or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Anubha Pandey , Ashish Mishra , Vinay Kumar Verma , Anurag Mittal , Hema A. Murthy

The practical value of existing supervised sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) algorithms is largely limited by the requirement for intensive data collection and labeling. In this paper, we present the first attempt at unsupervised SBIR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Conghui Hu , Yongxin Yang , Yunpeng Li , Timothy M. Hospedales , Yi-Zhe Song

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) associates hand-drawn sketches with their corresponding realistic images. In this study, we aim to tackle two major challenges of this task simultaneously: i) zero-shot, dealing with unseen categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Liying Gao , Bingliang Jiao , Peng Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Hanwang Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a cross-modal matching problem which is typically solved by learning a joint embedding space where the semantic content shared between photo and sketch modalities are preserved. However, a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Rising concerns about privacy and anonymity preservation of deep learning models have facilitated research in data-free learning (DFL). For the first time, we identify that for data-scarce tasks like Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Abhra Chaudhuri , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song , Anjan Dutta

We address the challenges inherent in sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) across various settings, including zero-shot SBIR, generalized zero-shot SBIR, and fine-grained zero-shot SBIR, by leveraging the vision-language foundation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Divyam Gupta , Pranav Singla , Biplab Banerjee

The ability to retrieve a photo by mere free-hand sketching highlights the immense potential of Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR). However, its rapid practical adoption, as well as scalability, is limited by the expense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Himanshu Thakur , Soumitri Chattopadhyay

The recent focus on Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) has shifted towards generalising a model to new categories without any training data from them. In real-world applications, however, a trained FG-SBIR model is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Parth Shah , Animesh Gupta , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

As a challenging vision-language task, Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) is designed to retrieve target images using bi-modal (image+text) queries. Typical ZS-CIR methods employ an inversion network to generate pseudo-word tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Haiwen Li , Fei Su , Zhicheng Zhao

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is challenging due to the inherent domain-gap between sketch and photo. Compared with pixel-perfect depictions of photos, sketches are iconic renderings of the real world with highly abstract. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Peng Xu , Qiyue Yin , Yongye Huang , Yi-Zhe Song , Zhanyu Ma , Liang Wang , Tao Xiang , W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Jun Guo

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

In this paper, we delve into the intricate dynamics of Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) by addressing a critical yet overlooked aspect -- the choice of viewpoint during sketch creation. Unlike photo systems that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yi-Zhe Song

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