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ARXIV:2603.17360 · IMAGE RETRIEVAL · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.17360IMAGE RETRIEVALSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
MCoT-MVS enhances composed image retrieval by integrating multi-level vision features with multi-modal reasoning for improved semantic accuracy.
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MCoT-MVS enhances composed image retrieval by integrating multi-level vision features with multi-modal reasoning for improved semantic accuracy. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best…
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images based on a reference image and modified texts. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 9.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments on two CIR benchmarks, namely CIRR and FashionIQ, demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing methods and achieves new state-of-the-art performance. A…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.17360MCoT-MVS enhances composed image retrieval by integrating multi-level vision features with multi-modal reasoning for improved semantic accuracy.
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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images based on a reference image and modified texts. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's intent under textual modification prompts, resulting in interference from irrelevant visual noise. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-level Vision Selection by Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (MCoT-MVS) for CIR, integrating attention-aware multi-level vision features guided by reasoning cues from a multi-modal large language model (MLLM). Specifically, we leverage an MLLM to perform chain-of-thought reasoning on the multimodal composed input, generating the retained, removed, and target-inferred texts. These textual cues subsequently guide two reference visual attention selection modules to selectively extract discriminative patch-level and instance-level semantics from the reference image. Finally, to effectively fuse these multi-granular visual cues with the modified text and the imagined target description, we design a weighted hierarchical combination module to align the composed query with target images in a unified embedding space. Extensive experiments on two CIR benchmarks, namely CIRR and FashionIQ, demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing methods and achieves new state-of-the-art performance. Code and trained models are publicly released.
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MCoT-MVS enhances composed image retrieval by integrating multi-level vision features with multi-modal reasoning for improved semantic accuracy. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's in...
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Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images based on a reference image and modified texts. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's intent under textual modification prom...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 9.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments on two CIR benchmarks, namely CIRR and FashionIQ, demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing methods and achieves new state-of-the-art performance. A public repo...
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Image Retrieval moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 9.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
we propose a novel Multi-level Vision Selection by Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (MCoT-MVS) for CIR, integrating attention-aware multi-level vision features guided by reasoning cues from a multi-modal large language model (MLLM).
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Specifically, we leverage an MLLM to perform chain-of-thought reasoning on the multimodal composed input, generating the retained, removed, and target-inferred texts.
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These textual cues subsequently guide two reference visual attention selection modules to selectively extract discriminative patch-level and instance-level semantics from the reference image.
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Finally, to effectively fuse these multi-granular visual cues with the modified text and the imagined target description, we design a weighted hierarchical combination module to align the composed query with target images in a unified embedding space.
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Extensive experiments on two CIR benchmarks, namely CIRR and FashionIQ, demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing methods and achieves new state-of-the-art performance.
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However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's intent under textual modification prompts, resulting in interference from irrelevant visual noise.
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to align the composed query with target images in a unified embedding space.
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Code and trained models are publicly released.
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Extensive experiments on two CIR benchmarks, namely CIRR and FashionIQ, demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing methods and achieves new state-of-the-art performance.
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However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's intent under textual modification prompts, resulting in interference from irrelevant visual noise.
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Specifically, we leverage an MLLM to perform chain-of-thought reasoning on the multimodal composed input, generating the retained, removed, and target-inferred texts.
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These textual cues subsequently guide two reference visual attention selection modules to selectively extract discriminative patch-level and instance-level semantics from the reference image.
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