arxivcs.CVcs.LG2026-07-20
The Many Senses of Visual Similarity: A Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Metric
Sheng-Yu Wang, Yotam Nitzan, Aaron Hertzmann, Jun-Yan Zhu, Eli Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros, et al.
Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent. For example, two images may be similar in shape but distinct in color. Existing perceptual similarity metrics, however, collapse these nuances into a single scalar value, offering no mechanism to condition on specific aspec…