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Recent image matting studies are developing towards proposing trimap-free or interactive methods for complete complex image matting tasks. Although avoiding the extensive labors of trimap annotation, existing methods still suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dinghao Yang , Bin Wang , Weijia Li , Yiqi Lin , Conghui He

Recent feed-forward models have significantly advanced geometry perception for inferring dense 3D structure from sensor observations. However, its essential capabilities remain fragmented across multiple incompatible paradigms, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haotian Wang , Yusong Huang , Zhaonian Kuang , Hongliang Lu , Xinhu Zheng , Meng Yang , Gang Hua

Image retrieval task consists of finding similar images to a query image from a set of gallery (database) images. Such systems are used in various applications e.g. person re-identification (ReID) or visual product search. Despite active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Mikolaj Wieczorek , Barbara Rychalska , Jacek Dabrowski

Prevalent lossy image compression schemes can be divided into: 1) explicit image compression (EIC), including traditional standards and neural end-to-end algorithms; 2) implicit image compression (IIC) based on implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qi Zheng , Haozhi Wang , Zihao Liu , Jiaming Liu , Peiye Liu , Zhijian Hao , Yanheng Lu , Dimin Niu , Jinjia Zhou , Minge Jing , Yibo Fan

While generative modeling has become prevalent across numerous research fields, its integration into the realm of image retrieval remains largely unexplored and underjustified. In this paper, we present a novel methodology, reframing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yidan Zhang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Yujing Wang , Qi Chen , Xing Xie , Hao Sun , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jingdong Wang , Baining Guo

Image-text retrieval has developed rapidly in recent years. However, it is still a challenge in remote sensing due to visual-semantic imbalance, which leads to incorrect matching of non-semantic visual and textual features. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Qing Ma , Jiancheng Pan , Cong Bai

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) uses a reference image and a modification text as a query to retrieve a target image satisfying the requirement of ``modifying the reference image according to the text instructions''. However, existing CIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Guozhi Qiu , Zhiwei Chen , Zixu Li , Qinlei Huang , Zhiheng Fu , Xuemeng Song , Yupeng Hu

In this paper, we design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering. While generative models provide a consistent network architecture between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Zhe Gan , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Lijuan Wang

The goal of unpaired image captioning (UIC) is to describe images without using image-caption pairs in the training phase. Although challenging, we except the task can be accomplished by leveraging a training set of images aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Peipei Zhu , Xiao Wang , Yong Luo , Zhenglong Sun , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Changwen Chen

Recent multimodal retrieval methods have endowed text-based retrievers with multimodal capabilities by utilizing pre-training strategies for visual-text alignment. They often directly fuse the two modalities for cross-reference during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yeong-Joon Ju , Ho-Joong Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

The task of open-vocabulary object-centric image retrieval involves the retrieval of images containing a specified object of interest, delineated by an open-set text query. As working on large image datasets becomes standard, solving this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hila Levi , Guy Heller , Dan Levi , Ethan Fetaya

Despite previous image restoration (IR) methods have often concentrated on isolated degradations, recent research has increasingly focused on addressing composite degradations involving a complex combination of multiple isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jin Cao , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Zero-shot scene understanding in real-world settings presents major challenges due to the complexity and variability of natural scenes, where models must recognize new objects, actions, and contexts without prior labeled examples. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), the retrieval of relevant medical information has become essential for efficient clinical decision-making. This paper introduces MedFusionRank, a novel approach to zero-shot medical information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yuqi Wang , Zeqiang Wang , Wei Wang , Qi Chen , Kaizhu Huang , Anh Nguyen , Suparna De

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is the task of retrieving images from a natural image database that correspond to a given hand-drawn sketch. Ideally, an SBIR model should learn to associate components in the sketch (say, feet, tail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Sasi Kiran Yelamarthi , Shiva Krishna Reddy , Ashish Mishra , Anurag Mittal

Unpaired image-to-image translation (UNIT) aims to map images between two visual domains without paired training data. However, given a UNIT model trained on certain domains, it is difficult for current methods to incorporate new domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Siyu Huang , Jie An , Donglai Wei , Zudi Lin , Jiebo Luo , Hanspeter Pfister

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve images based on a query image with text. Current Zero-Shot CIR (ZS-CIR) methods try to solve CIR tasks without using expensive triplet-labeled training datasets. However, the gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yingying Jiang , Hanchao Jia , Xiaobing Wang , Peng Hao

Despite recent significant progress, Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) faces limitations such as reliance on prior knowledge and predefined categories and struggles with unseen objects. To address these issues, Generic Multiple Object Tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kim Hoang Tran , Anh Duy Le Dinh , Tien Phat Nguyen , Thinh Phan , Pha Nguyen , Khoa Luu , Donald Adjeroh , Gianfranco Doretto , Ngan Hoang Le

E-commerce image search often takes a cropped image as the query, while each candidate is represented by full item images and structured text. This image-to-multimodal retrieval setting presents two asymmetries: a modality disparity -- a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinyu Sun , Huangyu Dai , Lingtao Mao , Zexin Zheng , Zihan Liang , Ben Chen , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou