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Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems have emerged as crucial tools in the field of computer vision, allowing for image search based on visual content rather than relying solely on metadata. This survey paper presents a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hamed Qazanfari , Mohammad M. AlyanNezhadi , Zohreh Nozari Khoshdaregi

Person re-identification (ReID) aims at searching the same identity person among images captured by various cameras. Unsupervised person ReID attracts a lot of attention recently, due to it works without intensive manual annotation and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Bo Pang , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

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

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

In this paper, we propose a deep convolutional neural network for learning the embeddings of images in order to capture the notion of visual similarity. We present a deep siamese architecture that when trained on positive and negative pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Rishab Sharma , Anirudha Vishvakarma

The success of self-supervised contrastive learning hinges on identifying positive data pairs, such that when they are pushed together in embedding space, the space encodes useful information for subsequent downstream tasks. Constructing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Maxwell A. Xu , Alexander Moreno , Hui Wei , Benjamin M. Marlin , James M. Rehg

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

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) methods, like Masked Autoencoders (MAE), efficiently learn a rich representation of the input. However, for adapting to downstream tasks, they require a sufficient amount of labeled data since their rich features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Johannes Lehner , Benedikt Alkin , Andreas Fürst , Elisabeth Rumetshofer , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is widely recognized as an important vision problem which implies a wide range of real-world applications. Recently, research interests arise in solving this problem under the more realistic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Qing Liu , Lingxi Xie , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille

As natural language interfaces enable users to express increasingly complex natural language queries, there is a parallel explosion of user review content that can allow users to better find items such as restaurants, books, or movies that…

Continuous Relation Extraction (CRE) aims to incrementally learn relation knowledge from a non-stationary stream of data. Since the introduction of new relational tasks can overshadow previously learned information, catastrophic forgetting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Mengyi Huang , Meng Xiao , Ludi Wang , Yi Du

Diffusion-Augmented Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval (DAI-TIR) is a promising paradigm that improves retrieval performance by generating query images via diffusion models and using them as additional ``views'' of the user's intent.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhuocheng Zhang , Kangheng Liang , Guanxuan Li , Paul Henderson , Richard Mccreadie , Zijun Long

With the wide application of stereo images in various fields, the research on stereo image compression (SIC) attracts extensive attention from academia and industry. The core of SIC is to fully explore the mutual information between the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yongqi Zhai , Luyang Tang , Yi Ma , Rui Peng , Ronggang Wang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to find a target image that aligns with user intent, expressed through a reference image and a modification text. While Zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR) methods sidestep the need for labeled training data by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Youjin Jung , Seongwoo Cho , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

The deep learning revolution has strongly impacted low-level image processing tasks such as style/domain transfer, enhancement/restoration, and visual quality assessments. Despite often being treated separately, the aforementioned tasks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Abhinau K. Venkataramanan , Cosmin Stejerean , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Hassene Tmar , Alan C. Bovik

Recent methods for learning unsupervised visual representations, dubbed contrastive learning, optimize the noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) bound on mutual information between two views of an image. NCE uses randomly sampled negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Mike Wu , Milan Mosse , Chengxu Zhuang , Daniel Yamins , Noah Goodman

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

Image reconstruction from insufficient data is common in computed tomography (CT), e.g., image reconstruction from truncated data, limited-angle data and sparse-view data. Deep learning has achieved impressive results in this field.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Guenter Lauritsch , Andreas Maier

Contrastive learning (CL) aims to preserve relational structure between samples by learning representations that reflect a similarity graph. Yet, the geometry of the resulting embeddings remains poorly understood. Here we show that weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Raphael Vock , Edouard Duchesnay , Benoit Dufumier

Contrastive Self-supervised Learning (CSL) is a practical solution that learns meaningful visual representations from massive data in an unsupervised approach. The ordinary CSL embeds the features extracted from neural networks onto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li