arxivcs.CVcs.IR2026-07-14
Towards Vision-Free CIR: Attribute-Augmented Scoring and LLM-Based Reranking for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
Ryotaro Shimada, Yu-Chieh Lin, Yuji Nozawa, Youyang Ng, Osamu Torii, Yusuke Matsui
Recent work has shown that "Vision-Free'' approaches (representing images as text) can be effective for standard image retrieval tasks. However, it remains unclear whether this paradigm can effectively handle a more complex, multimodal task, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR), due to…