{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/domain-smoothing-network-for-zero-shot-sketch","title":"Domain-Smoothing Network for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval","arxiv_id":"2106.11841","date":"2021-06-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Zhipeng Wang","Hao Wang","Jiexi Yan","Aming Wu","Cheng Deng"],"abstract":"Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is a novel cross-modal retrieval task, where abstract sketches are used as queries to retrieve natural images under zero-shot scenario. Most existing methods regard ZS-SBIR as a traditional classification problem and employ a cross-entropy or triplet-based loss to achieve retrieval, which neglect the problems of the domain gap between sketches and natural images and the large intra-class diversity in sketches. Toward this end, we propose a novel Domain-Smoothing Network (DSN) for ZS-SBIR. Specifically, a cross-modal contrastive method is proposed to learn generalized representations to smooth the domain gap by mining relations with additional augmented samples. Furthermore, a category-specific memory bank with sketch features is explored to reduce intra-class diversity in the sketch domain. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach notably outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in both Sketchy and TU-Berlin datasets. Our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/haowang1992/DSN.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11841v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.11841v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"domain-smoothing-network-for-zero-shot-sketch","repo_url":"https://github.com/haowang1992/DSN","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"cross-modal-retrieval","task_name":"Cross-Modal Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"diversity","task_name":"Diversity"},{"task_slug":"image-retrieval","task_name":"Image Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"sketch-based-image-retrieval","task_name":"Sketch-Based Image Retrieval"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"Triplet"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2106.11841","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2106.11841","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}