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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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) has demonstrated significant potential by enabling flexible multimodal queries that combine a reference image and modification text. However, CIR inherently prioritizes semantic matching, struggling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuxin Yang , Yinan Zhou , Yuxin Chen , Ziqi Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Jun Gao , Weiming Hu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) uses a reference image plus a natural-language edit to retrieve images that apply the requested change while preserving other relevant visual content. Classic fusion pipelines typically rely on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guoyizhe Wei , Yang Jiao , Nan Xi , Zhishen Huang , Jingjing Meng , Rama Chellappa , Yan Gao

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

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) locates, retrieves and displays images alike to one given as a query, using a set of features. It demands accessible data in medical archives and from medical equipment, to infer meaning after some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Albany E. Herrmann , Vania Vieira Estrela

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm that enables to retrieve target images based on multimodal queries consisting of reference images and modification texts. Although substantial progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiwei Chen , Yupeng Hu , Zhiheng Fu , Zixu Li , Jiale Huang , Qinlei Huang , Yinwei Wei

In this paper, we consider the problem of composed image retrieval (CIR), it aims to train a model that can fuse multi-modal information, e.g., text and images, to accurately retrieve images that match the query, extending the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yikun Liu , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Content Based Image Retrieval(CBIR) is one of the important subfield in the field of Information Retrieval. The goal of a CBIR algorithm is to retrieve semantically similar images in response to a query image submitted by the end user. CBIR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Vikas Verma

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images by integrating a reference image with a corresponding modification text. CIR requires jointly considering the explicit semantics specified in the query and the implicit semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jiyoung Lim , Heejae Yang , Jee-Hyong Lee

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables fine-grained visual search by combining a reference image with a textual modification. While supervised CIR methods achieve high accuracy, their reliance on costly triplet annotations motivates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xin Wang , Haipeng Zhang , Mang Li , Zhaohui Xia , Yueguo Chen , Yu Zhang , Chunyu Wei

Composed image retrieval (CIR) allows a user to locate a target image by applying a fine-grained textual edit (e.g., ``turn the dress blue'' or ``remove stripes'') to a reference image. Zero-shot CIR, which embeds the image and the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Santhosh Kakarla , Gautama Shastry Bulusu Venkata

Text-to-image retrieval aims to find the relevant images based on a text query, which is important in various use-cases, such as digital libraries, e-commerce, and multimedia databases. Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zijun Long , Xuri Ge , Richard Mccreadie , Joemon Jose

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

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images from a gallery based on a reference image and modification text as a combined query. Recent approaches focus on balancing global information from two modalities and encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuxin Yang , Yinan Zhou , Yuxin Chen , Ziqi Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Lin Song , Jun Gao , Peng Li , Weiming Hu

Image captioning models often suffer from performance degradation when applied to novel datasets, as they are typically trained on domain-specific data. To enhance generalization in out-of-domain scenarios, retrieval-augmented approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hao Wu , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

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

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve target images given a compositional query, consisting of a reference image and a modifying text-without relying on annotated training data. Existing approaches often generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rong-Cheng Tu , Wenhao Sun , Hanzhe You , Yingjie Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

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