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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…

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Thinking with Images improves fine-grained VQA for MLLMs by emphasizing visual cues. However, tool-augmented methods depend on the capacity of grounding, which remains unreliable for MLLMs. In parallel, attention-driven methods to crop the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhaodong Wu , Haochen Xue , Qi Cao , Wenqi Mo , Yu Pei , Wenqi Xu , Jionglong Su , Yang Liu

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

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pivotal next-generation technology, enabling users to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kun Zhang , Jingyu Li , Zhe Li , Jingjing Zhang , Fan Li , Yandong Liu , Rui Yan , Zihang Jiang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao , S. Kevin Zhou

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced cross-modal understanding and reasoning by incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning in the semantic space. Building upon this, recent studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chengzhi Liu , Yuzhe Yang , Yue Fan , Qingyue Wei , Sheng Liu , Xin Eric Wang

Composed video retrieval (CoVR) is a challenging problem in computer vision which has recently highlighted the integration of modification text with visual queries for more sophisticated video search in large databases. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Omkar Thawakar , Muzammal Naseer , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Michael Felsberg , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

Conditional inference on joint textual and visual clues is a multi-modal reasoning task that textual clues provide prior permutation or external knowledge, which are complementary with visual content and pivotal to deducing the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yunxin Li , Baotian Hu , Xinyu Chen , Yuxin Ding , Lin Ma , Min Zhang

This work explores enabling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to link visual cues across multiple images. A straightforward solution is to adapt rule-based reinforcement learning for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, such methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xi Chen , Mingkang Zhu , Shaoteng Liu , Xiaoyang Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Yu Liu , Xiang Bai , Hengshuang Zhao

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on text-to-image retrieval benchmarks. However, bridging this success to real-world applications remains a challenge. In practice, human search behavior is rarely a one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Diji Yang , Minghao Liu , Chung-Hsiang Lo , Yi Zhang , James Davis

The reasoning segmentation task, which demands a nuanced comprehension of intricate queries to accurately pinpoint object regions, is attracting increasing attention. However, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLM) often find it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xiaoyi Bao , Siyang Sun , Shuailei Ma , Kecheng Zheng , Yuxin Guo , Guosheng Zhao , Yun Zheng , Xingang Wang

In an era where social media platforms abound, individuals frequently share images that offer insights into their intents and interests, impacting individual life quality and societal stability. Traditional computer vision tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yin Tang , Jiankai Li , Hongyu Yang , Xuan Dong , Lifeng Fan , Weixin Li

Current multimodal LLMs encode images as static visual prefixes and rely on text-based reasoning, lacking goal-driven and adaptive visual access. Inspired by human visual perception-where attention is selectively and sequentially shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guangfu Guo , Xiaoqian Lu , Yue Feng , Mingming Sun

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving images matching a reference image augmented with a text, where the text describes changes to the reference image in natural language. Traditionally, models designed for CIR have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiqun Duan , Sameera Ramasinghe , Stephen Gould , Ajanthan Thalaiyasingam

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have enabled visually coherent image synthesis from descriptions, but generating images containing multiple given subjects remains challenging. As the number of reference identities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yucheng Zhou , Dubing Chen , Huan Zheng , Jianbing Shen

With the advent of large language models(LLMs) enhanced by the chain-of-thought(CoT) methodology, visual reasoning problem is usually decomposed into manageable sub-tasks and tackled sequentially with various external tools. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Timin Gao , Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Chaoyou Fu , Yunhang Shen , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Xing Sun , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Real-world reasoning often requires combining information across modalities, connecting textual context with visual cues in a multi-hop process. Yet, most multimodal benchmarks fail to capture this ability: they typically rely on single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Junyoung Sung , Seungwoo Lyu , Minjun Kim , Sumin An , Arsha Nagrani , Paul Hongsuck Seo

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

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a task that retrieves images similar to a query, based on a provided textual modification. Current techniques rely on supervised learning for CIR models using labeled triplets of the reference image, text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Young Kyun Jang , Donghyun Kim , Zihang Meng , Dat Huynh , Ser-Nam Lim