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Composed image retrieval (CIR) addresses the task of retrieving a target image by jointly interpreting a reference image and a modification text that specifies the intended change. Most existing methods are still built upon contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Geon Park , Ji-Hoon Park , Seong-Whan Lee

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is a new and flexible image retrieval paradigm, which can retrieve the target image for a multimodal query, including a reference image and its corresponding modification text. Although existing efforts have…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haokun Wen , Xian Zhang , Xuemeng Song , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task provides a flexible retrieval paradigm via a reference image and modification text, but it heavily relies on expensive and error-prone triplet annotations. This paper systematically investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zixu Li , Yupeng Hu , Zhiwei Chen , Mingyu Zhang , Zhiheng Fu , Liqiang Nie

We introduce a novel cross-reference image quality assessment method that effectively fills the gap in the image assessment landscape, complementing the array of established evaluation schemes -- ranging from full-reference metrics like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zirui Wang , Wenjing Bian , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Text-image composed retrieval aims to retrieve the target image through the composed query, which is specified in the form of an image plus some text that describes desired modifications to the input image. It has recently attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shitong Sun , Jindong Gu , Shaogang Gong

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) provides an effective way to manage and access large-scale visual data. Construction of the CIR model utilizes triplets that consist of a reference image, modification text describing desired changes, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kenta Uesugi , Naoki Saito , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Information fusion is used widely to improve document classification by the integration of multiple data sources (multimodal) or representations (multiview). However, the field lacks a unified framework, a quantitative synthesis of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Marcin Michał Mirończuk

Composed image retrieval (CIR), which formulates the query as a combination of a reference image and modified text, has emerged as a new form of image search due to its enhanced ability to capture user intent. However, training a CIR model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ren-Di Wu , Yu-Yen Lin , Huei-Fang Yang

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a critical task in computer vision, traditionally enhanced by re-ranking retrieval results with image matching. However, recent advancements in VPR methods have significantly improved performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Davide Sferrazza , Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Carlo Masone

While increasingly complex approaches to question answering (QA) have been proposed, the true gain of these systems, particularly with respect to their expensive training requirements, can be inflated when they are not compared to adequate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Vikas Yadav , Rebecca Sharp , Mihai Surdeanu

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

Different from conventional image matting, which either requires user-defined scribbles/trimap to extract a specific foreground object or directly extracts all the foreground objects in the image indiscriminately, we introduce a new task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jizhizi Li , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image from a query composed of a reference image and modification text. Recent training-free zero-shot methods often employ Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yi Sun , Jinyu Xu , Qing Xie , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu

The task of Composed Image Retrieval (CoIR) involves queries that combine image and text modalities, allowing users to express their intent more effectively. However, current CoIR datasets are orders of magnitude smaller compared to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Matan Levy , Rami Ben-Ari , Nir Darshan , Dani Lischinski

Despite impressive advances in recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs), state-of-the-art models such as from the GPT-4 suite still struggle with knowledge-intensive tasks. To address this, we consider Reverse Image Retrieval (RIR)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jialiang Xu , Michael Moor , Jure Leskovec

Image retrieval remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision. While recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, existing methods typically employ them only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shangrong Wu , Yanghong Zhou , Yang Chen , Feng Zhang , P. Y. Mok

Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment from picture descriptions is critical yet challenging, especially in multilingual and multiple picture settings. Prior work has primarily focused on English speakers describing a single picture (e.g., the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Kristin Qi , Jiali Cheng , Youxiang Zhu , Hadi Amiri , Xiaohui Liang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) represents a novel retrieval paradigm that is capable of expressing users' intricate retrieval requirements flexibly. It enables the user to give a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhiwei Chen , Yupeng Hu , Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

We introduce MRMR, the first expert-level multidisciplinary multimodal retrieval benchmark requiring intensive reasoning. MRMR contains 1,502 queries spanning 23 domains, with positive documents carefully verified by human experts. Compared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Siyue Zhang , Yuan Gao , Xiao Zhou , Yilun Zhao , Tingyu Song , Arman Cohan , Anh Tuan Luu , Chen Zhao