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Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) is a rapidly growing area with significant practical applications, allowing users to retrieve a target image by providing a reference image and a relative caption describing the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yongcong Ye , Kai Zhang , Yanghai Zhang , Enhong Chen , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to find a target image that aligns with user intent, expressed through a reference image and a modification text. While Zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR) methods sidestep the need for labeled training data by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Youjin Jung , Seongwoo Cho , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables fine-grained visual search by combining a reference image with a textual modification. While supervised CIR methods achieve high accuracy, their reliance on costly triplet annotations motivates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xin Wang , Haipeng Zhang , Mang Li , Zhaohui Xia , Yueguo Chen , Yu Zhang , Chunyu Wei

Joint image-text embedding is the bedrock for most Vision-and-Language (V+L) tasks, where multimodality inputs are simultaneously processed for joint visual and textual understanding. In this paper, we introduce UNITER, a UNiversal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yen-Chun Chen , Linjie Li , Licheng Yu , Ahmed El Kholy , Faisal Ahmed , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Jingjing Liu

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a reference image and conditioning text, enabling controllable image searches. The mainstream Zero-Shot (ZS) CIR methods bypass the need for expensive training CIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jaeseok Byun , Seokhyeon Jeong , Wonjae Kim , Sanghyuk Chun , Taesup Moon

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR), which takes a textual modification and a reference image as a query to retrieve a target image without triplet labeling, has gained more and more attention in data mining. Current ZS-CIR research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junyang Chen , Hanjiang Lai

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

Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates information retrieval (IR) by framing it as the generation of document identifiers (docids), thereby enabling end-to-end optimization and seamless integration with generative language models (LMs).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Weiwei Sun , Keyi Kong , Xinyu Ma , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren , Yiming Yang

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 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

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…

Unsupervised 3D object detection methods have emerged to leverage vast amounts of data without requiring manual labels for training. Recent approaches rely on dynamic objects for learning to detect mobile objects but penalize the detections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ted Lentsch , Holger Caesar , Dariu M. Gavrila

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image from a query composed of a reference image and modification text. Recent training-free zero-shot methods often employ Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yi Sun , Jinyu Xu , Qing Xie , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu

In this paper, we propose a general framework for universal zero-shot goal-oriented navigation. Existing zero-shot methods build inference framework upon large language models (LLM) for specific tasks, which differs a lot in overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hang Yin , Xiuwei Xu , Lingqing Zhao , Ziwei Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Vision transformers in vision-language models typically use the same amount of compute for every image, regardless of whether it is simple or complex. We propose ICAR (Image Complexity-Aware Retrieval), an adaptive computation approach that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mikel Williams-Lekuona , Georgina Cosma

Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) has achieved significant progress recently. However, the number of fine-grained species could be huge and dynamically increasing in real scenarios, making it difficult to recognize unseen objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Hantao Yao , Shiliang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Jintao Li , Qi Tian

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

We introduce Image-GOal Representations (IGOR), aiming to learn a unified, semantically consistent action space across human and various robots. Through this unified latent action space, IGOR enables knowledge transfer among large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoyu Chen , Junliang Guo , Tianyu He , Chuheng Zhang , Pushi Zhang , Derek Cathera Yang , Li Zhao , Jiang Bian