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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables image retrieval by combining multiple query modalities, but existing benchmarks predominantly focus on general-domain imagery and rely on reference images with short textual modifications. As a result,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jinyu Xu , Yi Sun , Jiangling Zhang , Qing Xie , Daomin Ji , Zhifeng Bao , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu

Image captioning aims at generating descriptive and meaningful textual descriptions of images, enabling a broad range of vision-language applications. Prior works have demonstrated that harnessing the power of Contrastive Image Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Longtian Qiu , Shan Ning , Xuming He

Recent vision-language models outperform vision-only models on many image classification tasks. However, because of the absence of paired text/image descriptions, it remains difficult to fine-tune these models for fine-grained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kathleen M. Lewis , Emily Mu , Adrian V. Dalca , John Guttag

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) uses contrastive learning from noise image-text pairs to excel at recognizing a wide array of candidates, yet its focus on broad associations hinders the precision in distinguishing subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ziyu Liu , Zeyi Sun , Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Low-resource domains, characterized by scarce data and annotations, present significant challenges for language and visual understanding tasks, with the latter much under-explored in the literature. Recent advancements in Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Nicola Dall'Asen , Yiming Wang , Enrico Fini , Elisa Ricci

Image retrieval with hybrid-modality queries, also known as composing text and image for image retrieval (CTI-IR), is a retrieval task where the search intention is expressed in a more complex query format, involving both vision and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yida Zhao , Yuqing Song , Qin Jin

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval and zero-shot classification but struggles with fine-grained understanding due to its focus on coarse-grained short captions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chunyu Xie , Bin Wang , Fanjing Kong , Jincheng Li , Dawei Liang , Gengshen Zhang , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin

Text-guided image generation has advanced rapidly with large-scale diffusion models, yet achieving precise stylization with visual exemplars remains difficult. Existing approaches often depend on task-specific retraining or expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yingying Deng , Xiangyu He , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Xucheng Yin

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , Zak Murez , Yuri Owekcho , Eric Eaton , Kuyngnam Kim

Retrieval is being redefined by agentic AI, demanding multimodal reasoning beyond conventional similarity-based paradigms. Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) exemplifies this shift as each query combines a reference image with textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhongyu Yang , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan

The composed image retrieval (CIR) task is to retrieve target images given a reference image and a modification text. Recent methods for CIR leverage large pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) and achieve good performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 François Gardères , Shizhe Chen , Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier , Jean Ponce

Recent studies show that large-scale sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) can be efficiently tackled by cross-modal binary representation learning methods, where Hamming distance matching significantly speeds up the process of similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Yuming Shen , Li Liu , Fumin Shen , Ling Shao

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot classification ability, namely image classification using novel text labels. Existing works have attempted to enhance CLIP by fine-tuning on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Seongha Eom , Namgyu Ho , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

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

Cross-modal retrieval aims to measure the content similarity between different types of data. The idea has been previously applied to visual, text, and speech data. In this paper, we present a novel cross-modal retrieval method specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Numan Khurshid , Talha Hanif , Mohbat Tharani , Murtaza Taj

Due to an increase in the number of image achieves, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has gained attention for research community of computer vision. The image visual contents are represented in a feature space in the form of numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Atif Nazir , Kashif Nazir

Many image restoration (IR) tasks require both pixel-level fidelity and high-level semantic understanding to recover realistic photos with fine-grained details. However, previous approaches often struggle to effectively leverage both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Cuixin Yang , Rongkang Dong , Kin-Man Lam

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 propose a novel, zero-shot image generation technique called "Visual Concept Blending" that provides fine-grained control over which features from multiple reference images are transferred to a source image. If only a single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hiroya Makino , Takahiro Yamaguchi , Hiroyuki Sakai

Photo search, the task of retrieving images based on textual queries, has witnessed significant advancements with the introduction of CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) model. CLIP leverages a vision-language pre training…

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