Towards Vision-Free CIR: Attribute-Augmented Scoring and LLM-Based Reranking for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval

Ryotaro Shimada, Yu-Chieh Lin, Yuji Nozawa +3

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 par…