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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables users to search for target images using both a reference image and manipulation text, offering substantial advantages over single-modality retrieval systems. However, existing CIR methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhipeng Qian , Zihan Liang , Yufei Ma , Ben Chen , Huangyu Dai , Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Chenyi Lei , Han Li , Xiaoshuai Sun

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

Given a query consisting of a reference image and a relative caption, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images visually similar to the reference one while incorporating the changes specified in the relative caption. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Alberto Del Bimbo , Marco Bertini

Query images presented to content-based image retrieval systems often have various different interpretations, making it difficult to identify the search objective pursued by the user. We propose a technique for overcoming this ambiguity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Björn Barz , Joachim Denzler

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

This paper proposes a novel zero-shot composed image retrieval (CIR) method considering the query-target relationship by masked image-text pairs. The objective of CIR is to retrieve the target image using a query image and a query text.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Huaying Zhang , Rintaro Yanagi , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm. It aims to retrieve target images from large-scale image databases that are consistent with the modification semantics, based on a multimodal query composed of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mingyu Zhang , Zixu Li , Zhiwei Chen , Zhiheng Fu , Xiaowei Zhu , Jiajia Nie , Yinwei Wei , Yupeng Hu

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

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) retrieves relevant images based on a reference image and accompanying text describing desired modifications. However, existing CIR methods only focus on retrieving the target image and disregard the relevance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jaehyun Kwak , Ramahdani Muhammad Izaaz Inhar , Se-Young Yun , Sung-Ju Lee

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) involves searching for target images based on an image-text pair query. While current methods treat this as a query-target matching problem, we argue that CIR triplets contain additional associations beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xintong Jiang , Yaxiong Wang , Mengjian Li , Yujiao Wu , Bingwen Hu , Xueming Qian

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables image search by combining a reference image with modification text. Intrinsic noise in CIR triplets incurs intrinsic uncertainty and threatens the model's robustness. Probabilistic learning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Haomiao Tang , Jinpeng Wang , Minyi Zhao , Guanghao Meng , Ruisheng Luo , Long Chen , Shu-Tao Xia

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) 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

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

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a flexible image retrieval paradigm that enables users to accurately locate the target image through a multimodal query composed of a reference image and modification text. Although this task has…

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

Albeit progress has been made in Composed Image Retrieval (CIR), we empirically find that a certain percentage of failure retrieval results are not consistent with their relative captions. To address this issue, this work provides a Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Chun-Mei Feng , Yang Bai , Tao Luo , Zhen Li , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

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

Retrieval is being redefined by agentic AI, demanding multimodal reasoning beyond conventional similarity-based paradigms. Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) exemplifies this shift as each query combines a reference image with textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhongyu Yang , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan