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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve the target image with a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image, and its complementary modification text. As previous supervised or zero-shot learning paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Bohan Hou , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Meng Liu , Mingzhu Xu , Xuemeng Song

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images that preserve the visual content of a reference image while incorporating user-specified textual modifications. Training-free zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR) approaches, which require no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ren-Di Wu , Yu-Yen Lin , Huei-Fang Yang

Current vision-language generative models rely on expansive corpora of paired image-text data to attain optimal performance and generalization capabilities. However, automatically collecting such data (e.g. via large-scale web scraping)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Tianhong Li , Sangnie Bhardwaj , Yonglong Tian , Han Zhang , Jarred Barber , Dina Katabi , Guillaume Lajoie , Huiwen Chang , Dilip Krishnan

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

With the popularity of multimodal techniques, it receives growing interests to acquire useful information in visual forms. In this work, we formally define an emerging IR paradigm called \textit{Visualized Information Retrieval}, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ze Liu , Zhengyang Liang , Junjie Zhou , Zheng Liu , Defu Lian

We propose In-Context Translation (ICT), a general learning framework to unify visual recognition (e.g., semantic segmentation), low-level image processing (e.g., denoising), and conditional image generation (e.g., edge-to-image synthesis).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Han Xue , Qianru Sun , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang , Zhiwu Huang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) excel in multimodal tasks, commonly encoding images as embedding vectors for storage in databases and retrieval via approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS). However, these models struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ofer Idan , Vladi Vexler , Gil Lederman , Dima Sivov , Aviad Cohen Zada , Shir Niego Komforti

Image-text retrieval is a central problem for understanding the semantic relationship between vision and language, and serves as the basis for various visual and language tasks. Most previous works either simply learn coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chong Liu , Yuqi Zhang , Hongsong Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Yan Huang , Yi-Dong Shen , Liang Wang

Without the demand of training in reality, humans can easily detect a known concept simply based on its language description. Empowering deep learning with this ability undoubtedly enables the neural network to handle complex vision tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Minheng Ni , Zitong Huang , Kailai Feng , Wangmeng Zuo

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

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

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), 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 which combines a reference image and a text modifier to identify the desired target image is a challenging task, and requires the model to comprehend both vision and language modalities and their interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images by integrating a reference image with a corresponding modification text. CIR requires jointly considering the explicit semantics specified in the query and the implicit semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jiyoung Lim , Heejae Yang , Jee-Hyong Lee

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

Although existing image caption models can produce promising results using recurrent neural networks (RNNs), it is difficult to guarantee that an object we care about is contained in generated descriptions, for example in the case that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yue Zheng , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang

Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image paired with corresponding modification text. Recent CIR studies leverage vision-language pre-trained (VLP) methods as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Xiaolin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

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