The explosive increase and ubiquitous accessibility of visual data on the Web have led to
the prosperity of research activity in image search or retrieval. With the ignorance of visual …

The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of community-contributed media content
on the Internet have led to a surge of research activity in multimedia search. Approaches that …

This paper studies the problem of zero-short sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR),
however with two significant differentiators to prior art (i) we tackle all variants (inter …

Manga (Japanese comics) are popular worldwide. However, current e-manga archives offer
very limited search support, ie, keyword-based search by title or author. To make the manga …

We present the Sketchy database, the first large-scale collection of sketch-photo pairs. We
ask crowd workers to sketch particular photographic objects sampled from 125 categories …

Synthesizing realistic images from human drawn sketches is a challenging problem in
computer graphics and vision. Existing approaches either need exact edge maps, or rely on …

We investigate the problem of fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR), where free-
hand human sketches are used as queries to perform instance-level retrieval of images. This …

Human sketches are unique in being able to capture both the spatial topology of a visual
object, as well as its subtle appearance details. Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval …

Free-hand sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a specific cross-view retrieval task, in
which queries are abstract and ambiguous sketches while the retrieval database is formed …

Sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is the task of retrieving images from a natural image
database that correspond to a given hand-drawn sketch. Ideally, an SBIR model should …