The paper introduces PRISm, an image-to-image retrieval framework that prioritizes important elements in scene graphs for semantic image search. PRISm uses an Importance Prediction Module, trained with caption-derived relevance, to prune irrelevant objects and relations, and an Edge-Aware Contextual GNN to fuse the refined graph with global visual features into a single embedding. Experiments on PSG and Flickr show that PRISm outperforms strong baselines in MAP@1 and top‑1 metrics while adding only 33 ms per query beyond scene‑graph generation.
Current instruction-based image retrieval systems are powerful but limited to single-turn interactions, failing to capture the iterative nature of complex, real-world visual searches. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Contextual Composed Image Retrieval (CoCo-IR), a novel task that enables users to progressively refine search results through interactions.
arXiv:2405. 03650v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study Generated Contents Enrichment (GCE), a conditional image-generation task in which a sparse scene description is first enriched through an explicit scene representation and then rendered into semantically richer visual content.
The paper introduces Preserve-and-Compose Training (PACT) for composed image retrieval, a task where a query image is modified by a textual instruction while preserving visual content from a reference image. PACT learns from image–text–text triplets, using target captions for supervision and visual evidence from the source image to maintain relevant details, without requiring target images or gallery updates. The authors also propose Chord scoring, which blends target similarity with source-relative directional agreement in a frozen image space, and demonstrate that this combined approach yields strong retrieval performance across multiple zero-shot CIR benchmarks and various backbones.
The paper introduces Image Bundle Composition (IBC), a new paradigm that moves beyond point-wise image matching to dynamically assemble cohesive image bundles from large, unstructured photo collections. It presents IBCBench, a benchmark with over 109,000 images and 667 verified queries, and proposes BundleWeaver, an agentic framework that uses a Large Language Model for relational role discovery and a Vision‑Language Model for bundle verification. Experiments show that BundleWeaver outperforms existing embedding and decompose‑and‑rerank methods, underscoring the importance of relational composition over atomic scoring.
The paper introduces CERES, a closed‑loop multimodal indexing framework that addresses semantic collapse in multimodal generation by building a three‑level semantic pyramid and using scale‑routed cross‑attention to generate images that remain retrievable by their original queries. CERES employs a co‑occurrence‑aware router, a lightweight U‑Net generator, and a soft‑Jaccard coverage objective to ensure generated images cover the intended concepts, verified by re‑indexing with a frozen vision‑language model and an external DINOv2 probe. Experiments on four pansharpening benchmarks show state‑of‑the‑art performance, especially under extreme scale variation, and significant improvements in concept‑query retrieval and image‑text ranking metrics.
arXiv:2608. 20810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal information systems increasingly route generated visual content back through the same vision-language index that informed its production, so the output must remain retrievable by the queries it was meant to serve.
arXiv:2610.09502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) recognizes categories unseen during training through textual category queries, yet achieving strong generalization with...
arXiv:2607. 09104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While the growing availability of image data has driven significant advances, labeling datasets remains costly and time-consuming.
arXiv:2607. 07033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models incur substantial inference costs because high-resolution inputs introduce thousands of visual tokens, many of which are redundant for a given query.
arXiv:2609.10008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composed video retrieval (CoVR) searches a gallery for the target video that realizes a natural-language modification of a source clip. However, at gal...
arXiv:2606. 15134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision encoders for retrieval are typically trained with class-label supervision: each training pair reduces to a scalar that uniformly pushes the embedding apart or pulls it together, as if every visual attribute either differed or matched.
arXiv:2609.13706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Co-salient object detection (Co-SOD) requires a model to find foreground regions that are salient in individual images and supported by the image group...