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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image from a database using a multimodal query, which consists of a reference image and a modification text. The text specifies how to alter the reference image to form a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tong Wang , Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance the quality and relevance of responses generated by large language models. While recent advancements have mainly focused on improving RAG for text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ainulla Khan , Yamada Moyuru , Srinidhi Akella

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images sharing the same category across diverse domains without relying on labeled data. Prior approaches have typically decomposed the UCIR problem into two distinct tasks:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Bin Li , Ye Shi , Qian Yu , Jingya Wang

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

Recent advancements in image captioning have explored text-only training methods to overcome the limitations of paired image-text data. However, existing text-only training methods often overlook the modality gap between using text data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Soeun Lee , Si-Woo Kim , Taewhan Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) retrieves a target image from a reference image and a text modification without human-annotated CIR triplets. Projection-based ZS-CIR methods are attractive because they do not rely on LLMs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mingyu Liu , Sihan Huang , Yijia Fan , Yinlin Yan , Quan Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu , Jianhuang Lai

Different from Composed Image Retrieval task that requires expensive labels for training task-specific models, Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) involves diverse tasks with a broad range of visual content manipulation intent that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yuanmin Tang , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Gang Xiong , Yue Hu , Qi Wu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an important image retrieval paradigm that enables users to retrieve a target image using a multimodal query that consists of a reference image and modification text. Although research on CIR has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zixu Li , Yupeng Hu , Zhiheng Fu , Zhiwei Chen , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie

Unpaired Image-to-image Translation is a new rising and challenging vision problem that aims to learn a mapping between unaligned image pairs in diverse domains. Recent advances in this field like MUNIT and DRIT mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Zhiqiang Shen , Mingyang Huang , Jianping Shi , Xiangyang Xue , Thomas Huang

Text-based person anomaly retrieval has emerged as a challenging task, with most existing approaches relying on complex deep-learning techniques. This raises a research question: How can the model be optimized to achieve greater…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tien-Huy Nguyen , Huu-Loc Tran , Huu-Phong Phan-Nguyen , Quang-Vinh Dinh

All instance perception tasks aim at finding certain objects specified by some queries such as category names, language expressions, and target annotations, but this complete field has been split into multiple independent subtasks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bin Yan , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Dong Wang , Ping Luo , Zehuan Yuan , Huchuan Lu

We investigate composed image retrieval with text feedback. Users gradually look for the target of interest by moving from coarse to fine-grained feedback. However, existing methods merely focus on the latter, i.e., fine-grained search, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yiyang Chen , Zhedong Zheng , Wei Ji , Leigang Qu , Tat-Seng Chua

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that aims to retrieve images based on a multimodal query. Typical training data consists of triplets containing a reference image, a textual description of desired modifications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuong Huynh , Jinyu Yang , Ashish Tawari , Mubarak Shah , Son Tran , Raffay Hamid , Trishul Chilimbi , Abhinav Shrivastava

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) allows users to search for images by combining a reference image with a text prompt that describes desired modifications. While vision-language models like CLIP have popularized this task by embedding multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ioannis Dravilas , Ioannis Kapetangeorgis , Anastasios Latsoudis , Conor McCarthy , Gonçalo Marcelino , Marcel Worring

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

We address the challenge of Small Object Image Retrieval (SoIR), where the goal is to retrieve images containing a specific small object, in a cluttered scene. The key challenge in this setting is constructing a single image descriptor, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Michael Green , Matan Levy , Issar Tzachor , Dvir Samuel , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a task that retrieves images similar to a query, based on a provided textual modification. Current techniques rely on supervised learning for CIR models using labeled triplets of the reference image, text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Young Kyun Jang , Donghyun Kim , Zihang Meng , Dat Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) involves diverse tasks with a broad range of visual content manipulation intent across domain, scene, object, and attribute. The key challenge for ZS-CIR tasks is to modify a reference image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuanmin Tang , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Gang Xiong , Gaopeng Gou , Qi Wu

Generalist models have achieved remarkable success in both language and vision-language tasks, showcasing the potential of unified modeling. However, effectively integrating fine-grained perception tasks like detection and segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Tang , Chenwei Xie , Haiyang Wang , Xiaoyi Bao , Tingyu Weng , Pandeng Li , Yun Zheng , Liwei Wang