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The performance of a zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) task is primarily affected by two challenges. The substantial domain gap between image and sketch features needs to be bridged, while at the same time the side…

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The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

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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…

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Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image that depicts a reference image modified by a textual description. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) achieve promising CIR performance by embedding images and text into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 François Gardères , Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier , Jean Ponce , Shizhe Chen

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) facilitates image retrieval through a multimodal query consisting of a reference image and modification text. The reference image defines the retrieval context, while the modification text specifies desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Yupeng Hu , Zhiwei Chen , Haokun Wen , Liqiang Nie

Recent advancements in text-to-image generative models have demonstrated a remarkable ability to capture a deep semantic understanding of images. In this work, we leverage this semantic knowledge to transfer the visual appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yuval Alaluf , Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

Composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve the target image based on a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image paired with corresponding modification text. Recent CIR studies leverage vision-language pre-trained (VLP) methods as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Xiaolin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval typically asks for a trained model to be applied as is to unseen categories. In this paper, we question to argue that this setup by definition is not compatible with the inherent abstract and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Vaishnav Potlapalli , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Recent text-to-image matching models apply contrastive learning to large corpora of uncurated pairs of images and sentences. While such models can provide a powerful score for matching and subsequent zero-shot tasks, they are not capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yoad Tewel , Yoav Shalev , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

The task of composed image retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve images based on the query image and the text describing the users' intent. Existing methods have made great progress with the advanced large vision-language (VL) model in CIR task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yongchao Du , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Shuping Hui , Houqiang Li

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an important image retrieval paradigm that enables users to retrieve a target image using a multimodal query that consists of a reference image and modification text. Although research on CIR has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zixu Li , Yupeng Hu , Zhiheng Fu , Zhiwei Chen , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search for a target image by concurrently comprehending the composition of an example image and a complementary text, which potentially impacts a wide variety of real-world applications, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Wenqiao Zhang , Jiannan Guo , Mengze Li , Haochen Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

The goal of Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is using free-hand sketches to retrieve images of the same category from a natural image gallery. However, SBIR requires all test categories to be seen during training, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jiangtong Li , Zhixin Ling , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search an image of interest using a combination of a reference image and modification text as the query. Despite recent advancements, this task remains challenging due to limited training data and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yinan Zhou , Yaxiong Wang , Haokun Lin , Chen Ma , Li Zhu , Zhedong Zheng

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR), which aims to find a target image from a reference image and a modification text, presents the core challenge of performing unified reasoning across visual and semantic modalities. While current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Weihuang Lin , Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) relies on free-hand sketches to retrieve natural photos within the same class. However, its practical application is limited by its inability to retrieve classes absent from the training set. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

The Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a challenging task because of the large domain gap between sketches and natural images as well as the semantic inconsistency between seen and unseen categories. Previous literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Yu-Wei Zhan , Xin Luo , Yongxin Wang , Zhen-Duo Chen , Xin-Shun Xu

In this paper, we leverage CLIP for zero-shot sketch based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We are largely inspired by recent advances on foundation models and the unparalleled generalisation ability they seem to offer, but for the first time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Aneeshan Sain , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is a vision language task that retrieves a target image using a reference image and modification text, enabling intuitive specification of desired changes. While effectively fusing visual and textual…

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