Content-Based Image Retrieval

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

5 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

2 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 34 papers with code (195 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• A clinically motivated self-supervised approach for content-based image retrieval of CT liver images
  11 Jul 2022 2 repositories listed
  We address these limitations by (1) proposing a self-supervised learning framework that incorporates domain-knowledge into the training procedure and (2) providing the first representation learning explainability…
• Conditioned and Composed Image Retrieval Combining and Partially Fine-Tuning CLIP-Based Features
  19 Jun 2022 2 repositories listed
  The proposed method is based on an initial training stage where a simple combination of visual and textual features is used, to fine-tune the CLIP text encoder.
• GPR1200: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Content-Based Image Retrieval
  25 Nov 2021 2 repositories listed
  Even though it has extensively been shown that retrieval specific training of deep neural networks is beneficial for nearest neighbor image search quality, most of these models are trained and tested in the domain of…
• Classification is a Strong Baseline for Deep Metric Learning
  30 Nov 2018 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 5 samples · 5 unverified
  Deep metric learning aims to learn a function mapping image pixels to embedding feature vectors that model the similarity between images.
• Dual-Path Convolutional Image-Text Embeddings with Instance Loss
  15 Nov 2017 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space.
• Content-based image retrieval tutorial
  12 Aug 2016 2 repositories listed
  This paper functions as a tutorial for individuals interested to enter the field of information retrieval but wouldn't know where to begin from.
• OBD-Finder: Explainable Coarse-to-Fine Text-Centric Oracle Bone Duplicates Discovery
  4 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Oracle Bone Inscription (OBI) is the earliest systematic writing system in China, while the identification of Oracle Bone (OB) duplicates is a fundamental issue in OBI research.
• Active Learning via Classifier Impact and Greedy Selection for Interactive Image Retrieval
  3 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  Finally, we assess our performance for the interactive content-based image retrieval task on several benchmarks and demonstrate its superiority over existing approaches and common baselines.
• Saliency Map-based Image Retrieval using Invariant Krawtchouk Moments
  13 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  With the widespread adoption of digital devices equipped with cameras and the rapid development of Internet technology, numerous content-based image retrieval systems and novel image feature extraction techniques have…
• Leveraging Foundation Models for Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval in Radiology
  11 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Despite these challenges, our research underscores the vast potential of foundation models for CBIR in radiology, proposing a shift towards versatile, general-purpose medical image retrieval systems that do not require…
• Exploring Masked Autoencoders for Sensor-Agnostic Image Retrieval in Remote Sensing
  15 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  To this end, we present a systematic overview on the possible adaptations of the vanilla MAE to exploit masked image modeling on multi-sensor RS image archives (denoted as cross-sensor masked autoencoders [CSMAEs]) in…
• Integrating Visual and Semantic Similarity Using Hierarchies for Image Retrieval
  16 Aug 2023 1 repository listed
  Most of the research in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) focus on developing robust feature representations that can effectively retrieve instances from a database of images that are visually similar to a query.
• iQPP: A Benchmark for Image Query Performance Prediction
  20 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  To date, query performance prediction (QPP) in the context of content-based image retrieval remains a largely unexplored task, especially in the query-by-example scenario, where the query is an image.
• NORPPA: NOvel Ringed seal re-identification by Pelage Pattern Aggregation
  6 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  We propose a method for Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) re-identification.
• AdaTriplet: Adaptive Gradient Triplet Loss with Automatic Margin Learning for Forensic Medical Image Matching
  5 May 2022 1 repository listed
  CBIR with DNNs is generally solved by minimizing a ranking loss, such as Triplet loss (TL), computed on image representations extracted by a DNN from the original data.
• Cross-Modality Sub-Image Retrieval using Contrastive Multimodal Image Representations
  10 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  We propose a new application-independent content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system for reverse (sub-)image search across modalities, which combines deep learning to generate representations (embedding the different…
• Contextual Similarity Aggregation with Self-attention for Visual Re-ranking
  26 Oct 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 9 of 9 samples · 0 unverified
  Since our re-ranking model is not directly involved with the visual feature used in the initial retrieval, it is ready to be applied to retrieval result lists obtained from various retrieval algorithms.
• iART: A Search Engine for Art-Historical Images to Support Research in the Humanities
  3 Aug 2021 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we introduce iART: an open Web platform for art-historical research that facilitates the process of comparative vision.
• City-Scale Visual Place Recognition with Deep Local Features Based on Multi-Scale Ordered VLAD Pooling
  19 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present a fully-automated system for place recognition at a city-scale based on content-based image retrieval.
• Privacy Leakage of SIFT Features via Deep Generative Model based Image Reconstruction
  2 Sep 2020 1 repository listed
  It is shown that, if the adversary can only have access to the SIFT descriptors while not their coordinates, then the modest success of reconstructing the latent image can be achieved for highly-structured images (e.
• PyRetri: A PyTorch-based Library for Unsupervised Image Retrieval by Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
  2 May 2020 1 repository listed
  Despite significant progress of applying deep learning methods to the field of content-based image retrieval, there has not been a software library that covers these methods in a unified manner.
• CBIR using features derived by Deep Learning
  13 Feb 2020 1 repository listed
  In a Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) System, the task is to retrieve similar images from a large database given a query image.
• Multimedia Retrieval Through Unsupervised Hypergraph-Based Manifold Ranking
  1 Dec 2019 1 repository listed
  In this paper, a novel manifold ranking algorithm is proposed based on the hypergraphs for unsupervised multimedia retrieval tasks.
• Enhancing Flood Impact Analysis using Interactive Retrieval of Social Media Images
  9 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  The analysis of natural disasters such as floods in a timely manner often suffers from limited data due to a coarse distribution of sensors or sensor failures.
• Semantic Hierarchy Preserving Deep Hashing for Large-scale Image Retrieval
  31 Jan 2019 1 repository listed
  Deep hashing models have been proposed as an efficient method for large-scale similarity search.
• Who's Afraid of Adversarial Queries? The Impact of Image Modifications on Content-based Image Retrieval
  29 Jan 2019 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 6 samples · 4 unverified
  An adversarial query is an image that has been modified to disrupt content-based image retrieval (CBIR) while appearing nearly untouched to the human eye.
• Information-Theoretic Active Learning for Content-Based Image Retrieval
  7 Sep 2018 1 repository listed
  We propose Information-Theoretic Active Learning (ITAL), a novel batch-mode active learning method for binary classification, and apply it for acquiring meaningful user feedback in the context of content-based image…
• Image Super-resolution via Feature-augmented Random Forest
  14 Dec 2017 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present a novel feature-augmented random forest (FARF) for image super-resolution, where the conventional gradient-based features are augmented with gradient magnitudes and different feature recipes…
• Automatic Query Image Disambiguation for Content-Based Image Retrieval
  2 Nov 2017 1 repository listed
  Query images presented to content-based image retrieval systems often have various different interpretations, making it difficult to identify the search objective pursued by the user.
• Convex Formulation of Multiple Instance Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Bags
  22 Apr 2017 1 repository listed
  Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a variation of traditional supervised learning problems where data (referred to as bags) are composed of sub-elements (referred to as instances) and only bag labels are available.

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.