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Auto-regressive (AR) models have recently made notable progress in image generation, achieving performance comparable to diffusion-based approaches. However, their computational intensity and sequential nature impede on-device deployment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Keming Ye , Zhou Zhao , Fan Wu , Shengyu Zhang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) requires identifying objects from images based on textual descriptions. We observe that existing methods significantly underperform on motion-related queries compared to appearance-based ones. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyun Kim , Seunghoon Yi , Yejin Kim , Yohan Jo , Joonseok Lee

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images that closely resemble a reference image while integrating user-specified textual modifications, thereby capturing user intent more precisely. Existing training-free zero-shot CIR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuanmin Tang , Xiaoting Qin , Jue Zhang , Jing Yu , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Qingwei Ling , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Wu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) seeks to find a target image using a multi-modal query, which combines an image with modification text to pinpoint the target. While recent CIR methods have shown promise, they mainly focus on exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Peng Gao , Yujian Lee , Zailong Chen , Hui zhang , Xubo Liu , Yiyang Hu , Guquang Jing

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves target images using a reference image paired with modification text. Despite rapid advances, all existing methods and datasets operate at the image level -- a single reference image plus modification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Peng Yuan , Bingyin Mei , Hui Zhang

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

Compositional generalization, the ability to reason about novel combinations of familiar concepts, is fundamental to human cognition and a critical challenge for machine learning. Object-centric (OC) representations, which encode a scene as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ferdinand Kapl , Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan , Maximilian Seitzer , Karl Henrik Johansson , Carsten Marr , Stefan Bauer , Andrea Dittadi

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

With the rapid growth of video data, Composed Video Retrieval (CVR) has emerged as a novel paradigm in video retrieval and is receiving increasing attention from researchers. Unlike unimodal video retrieval methods, the CVR task takes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zixu Li , Yupeng Hu , Zhiwei Chen , Qinlei Huang , Guozhi Qiu , Zhiheng Fu , Meng Liu

Image composition aims to blend multiple objects to form a harmonized image. Existing approaches often assume precisely segmented and intact objects. Such assumptions, however, are hard to satisfy in unconstrained scenarios. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Peiye Zhuang , Jia-bin Huang , Ayush Saraf , Xuejian Rong , Changil Kim , Denis Demandolx

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for speech-image retrieval. We utilize speech-image contrastive (SIC) learning tasks to align speech and image representations at a coarse level and speech-image matching (SIM) learning tasks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Lifeng Zhou , Yuke Li

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) involves retrieving a target image based on a composed query of an image paired with text that specifies modifications or changes to the visual reference. CIR is inherently an instruction-following task, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Wenliang Zhong , Weizhi An , Feng Jiang , Hehuan Ma , Yuzhi Guo , Junzhou Huang

Referring detection refers to locate the target referred by natural languages, which has recently attracted growing research interests. However, existing datasets are limited to ground images with large object centered in relative small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Guyue Hu , Hao Song , Yuxing Tong , Duzhi Yuan , Dengdi Sun , Aihua Zheng , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

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) requires both preserving the visual continuity of the reference image and faithfully executing the semantic variables specified in the modification text, which constitute the core challenge of the task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xingtian Pei , Yukun Song , Changwei Wang , Shunpeng Chen , Rongtao Xu , Shengpeng Xu , Shibiao Xu

Image captioning is a challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate a natural language description of an image. Most recent researches follow the encoder-decoder framework which depends heavily on the previous generated words for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou , Zhendong Mao , Jianlong Tan

Image retrieval with hybrid-modality queries, also known as composing text and image for image retrieval (CTI-IR), is a retrieval task where the search intention is expressed in a more complex query format, involving both vision and text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yida Zhao , Yuqing Song , Qin Jin

All-in-One Image Restoration (AiOIR) aims to recover high-quality images from diverse degradations within a unified framework. However, existing methods often fail to explicitly model degradation types and struggle to adapt their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shengkai Hu , Jiaqi Ma , Jun Wan , Wenwen Min , Yongcheng Jing , Lefei Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve the target image with a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image, and its complementary modification text. As previous supervised or zero-shot learning paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Bohan Hou , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Meng Liu , Mingzhu Xu , Xuemeng Song

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) involves diverse tasks with a broad range of visual content manipulation intent across domain, scene, object, and attribute. The key challenge for ZS-CIR tasks is to modify a reference image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuanmin Tang , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Gang Xiong , Gaopeng Gou , Qi Wu