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We extend the task of composed image retrieval, where an input query consists of an image and short textual description of how to modify the image. Existing methods have only been applied to non-complex images within narrow domains, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zheyuan Liu , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Damien Teney , Stephen Gould

Composed image retrieval (CIR) enables users to search images using a reference image combined with textual modifications. Recent advances in vision-language models have improved CIR, but dataset limitations remain a barrier. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Pranavi Kolouju , Eric Xing , Robert Pless , Nathan Jacobs , Abby Stylianou

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search an image of interest using a combination of a reference image and modification text as the query. Despite recent advancements, this task remains challenging due to limited training data and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yinan Zhou , Yaxiong Wang , Haokun Lin , Chen Ma , Li Zhu , Zhedong Zheng

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) facilitates image retrieval through a multimodal query consisting of a reference image and modification text. The reference image defines the retrieval context, while the modification text specifies desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Yupeng Hu , Zhiwei Chen , Haokun Wen , Liqiang Nie

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 a target image based on a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption that describes the difference between the two images. The high effort and cost required for labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Alberto Baldrati , Lorenzo Agnolucci , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) presents a significant challenge as it requires jointly understanding a reference image and a modified textual instruction to find relevant target images. Some existing methods attempt to use a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jun Li , Hongjian Dou , Zhenyu Zhang , Kai Li , Shaoguo Liu , Tingting Gao

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image given a reference image and a relative text, without relying on costly triplet annotations. Existing CLIP-based methods face two core challenges: (1) union-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqi Xiao , Yingying Zhu

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

Given a query consisting of a reference image and a relative caption, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images visually similar to the reference one while incorporating the changes specified in the relative caption. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Alberto Del Bimbo , Marco Bertini

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has transformed text based question answering, yet its extension to visual domains remains hindered by fundamental challenges: bridging the modality gap between image queries and text heavy knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Parthaw Goswami , Jaynto Goswami Deep

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

Existing Multi-Turn Composed Image Retrieval (MTCIR) datasets lack dialogue-history consistency and are restricted to the fashion domain. To address these limitations, we construct CIRCLED by extending FashionIQ, CIRR, and CIRCO. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tomohisa Takeda , Yu-Chieh Lin , Yuji Nozawa , Youyang Ng , Osamu Torii , Yusuke Matsui

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jie Guo , Meiting Wang , Yan Zhou , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Wei Fan , Jianglong Chang

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

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

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

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

Most of the research in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) focus on developing robust feature representations that can effectively retrieve instances from a database of images that are visually similar to a query. However, the retrieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Aishwarya Venkataramanan , Martin Laviale , Cédric Pradalier