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Training-free composition methods deliver strong scalable baselines for remote sensing composed image retrieval while change-centric queries require explicit scene identity preservation.

2026-06-30 13:33 UTC pith:HMCDZL3M

load-bearing objection A useful applied benchmark with a new change-centric EO dataset and released code; no load-bearing flaws apparent.

arxiv 2605.24442 v1 pith:HMCDZL3M submitted 2026-05-23 cs.CV

Benchmarking Composed Image Retrieval for Applied Earth Observation

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keywords composed image retrievalremote sensingearth observationbenchmarkchange detectionvision-language modelsdisaster monitoringsatellite imagery
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The paper evaluates how well existing composed image retrieval techniques transfer to satellite imagery by testing representative methods across multiple vision-language backbones on the PatternCom dataset under a fixed protocol. It then releases xView2-CIR, a new dataset that frames retrieval around post-disaster state changes while keeping the underlying scene fixed. The central finding is that simple training-free composition approaches already work reliably for Earth observation search tasks, yet the change-focused setting introduces distinct difficulties centered on maintaining scene identity rather than just altering attributes. A sympathetic reader would care because large satellite archives currently lack flexible query interfaces that combine an example image with a textual change description, and this work supplies both the data and the baseline numbers needed to build such interfaces.

Core claim

Training-free composition methods provide strong and scalable baselines for EO retrieval, while change-centric retrieval on xView2-CIR presents different challenges from attribute-based retrieval, particularly due to the need to preserve scene identity.

What carries the argument

Standardized protocol that adapts composed image retrieval methods to remote sensing data using six vision-language backbones on PatternCom for attribute queries and on the new xView2-CIR dataset for change queries.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen vision-language backbones, composition strategies, and the two datasets are representative of how composed retrieval would behave in real Earth observation workflows.

What would settle it

A follow-up experiment on a third, larger, or differently distributed satellite archive in which trained composition methods consistently outperform all training-free baselines by a large margin while change-centric queries show no extra penalty for scene identity.

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If this is right

  • Training-free methods can serve as immediate practical baselines for archive search and exploration in remote sensing.
  • Change-centric retrieval must treat scene identity preservation as a first-class constraint separate from attribute modification.
  • Composed retrieval can function as a complementary tool alongside existing remote sensing retrieval systems for disaster monitoring and damage assessment.
  • Standardized evaluation protocols enable direct comparison of future methods on both attribute and change query types.

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  • Operational systems may need hybrid pipelines that first enforce scene identity before applying textual modifiers.
  • The benchmark could be extended by adding temporal consistency checks across multiple acquisition dates of the same location.
  • Results imply that identity-preserving mechanisms developed for change detection might transfer more readily than generic composition techniques.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript benchmarks composed image retrieval (CIR) methods adapted to remote sensing (RSCIR). It evaluates representative training-free composition strategies across six vision-language backbones on the PatternCom dataset under a standardized protocol, analyzing performance by backbone, strategy, and query type. It introduces the xView2-CIR dataset for change-centric retrieval in disaster monitoring, where queries combine a reference image with a textual modifier conditioned on preserving scene identity and reaching a target post-event state. The central empirical claim is that training-free methods yield strong, scalable baselines for EO retrieval while change-centric tasks differ from attribute-based retrieval due to the scene-identity constraint.

Significance. If the reported comparisons hold under the chosen protocol, the work supplies a reproducible benchmark and a new change-centric dataset that positions composed retrieval as a practical complement to existing remote-sensing retrieval tools for archive search and change analysis. Explicit release of the xView2-CIR dataset and evaluation code is a clear strength that supports follow-on research.

minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'six vision-language backbones' is not expanded; listing the specific models (or citing the section that does) would allow immediate assessment of scope.
  2. [§3] §3 (or wherever the protocol is defined): the description of how negative pairs and scene-identity preservation are operationalized in xView2-CIR could be expanded with one concrete query example to clarify the distinction from PatternCom.
  3. [Tables] Table captions and axis labels: ensure all tables reporting recall or mAP explicitly state the number of queries and the retrieval pool size so that numbers are directly interpretable.

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We thank the referee for the positive summary of our work, the recognition of the xView2-CIR dataset release and code as strengths, and the recommendation for minor revision. No major comments were provided in the report, so we have no specific points to address point-by-point. We will proceed with the minor revision to incorporate any editorial suggestions while maintaining the reproducibility focus.

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full rationale

This is an empirical benchmarking study that adapts and evaluates existing composed image retrieval methods across six vision-language backbones on PatternCom and the newly introduced xView2-CIR dataset under a standardized protocol. All central claims (training-free methods as strong baselines, differences between change-centric and attribute-based retrieval) are supported by direct performance measurements on held-out test data. No derivations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, self-citation load-bearing arguments, or equations appear in the provided text. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks and reports no internal reductions of results to inputs by construction.

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This is an empirical benchmarking study; no mathematical derivations, fitted parameters, or postulated entities are introduced.

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Remote sensing composed image retrieval (RSCIR) enables search in large satellite image archives using composed queries that combine a reference image with a textual modifier. Although RSCIR offers a flexible interface for expressing targeted retrieval intent, the transferability of modern composition methods to Earth observation (EO) imagery and their relevance to operational EO workflows remain underexplored. We address this gap through a unified benchmark and an application-oriented study. First, we systematically adapt and evaluate representative composed image retrieval methods with six vision-language backbones on PatternCom under a standardized protocol, analyzing their behavior across backbones, composition strategies, and query types. Second, we introduce xView2-CIR, a change-centric dataset for disaster and damage monitoring, where retrieval is conditioned on scene identity and a target post-event state. Our results show that training-free composition methods provide strong and scalable baselines for EO retrieval, while change-centric retrieval presents different challenges from attribute-based retrieval, particularly due to the need to preserve scene identity. Overall, this study establishes a practical benchmark for RSCIR and positions composed retrieval as a complementary tool for remote sensing image retrieval, archive exploration, and change analysis. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/billpsomas/rscir.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.24442 by Bill Psomas, Dionysis Christopoulos, Giorgos Tolias, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Nikos Efthymiadis, Ond\v{r}ej Chum, Thanasis Petropoulos, Yannis Avrithis.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Composed Image Retrieval for applied Earth Observation. We illustrate how composed queries (query image + query text) enable controllable retrieval by specifying a targeted change. (a) Activity monitoring: a parking-lot query image composed with being empty retrieves visually similar parking areas with low vehicle occupancy. (b) Capacity monitoring: A facility query image composed with having four retrieve… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Remote sensing composed image retrieval for disaster monitoring. We restructure xView2 [41] into a composed retrieval setting where a query consists of a pre-event reference image of a specific location and a textual modifier describing the desired post-event state (e.g., post-hurricane). For each disaster type (a–f), we illustrate the query and the corresponding relevance criterion: positives are images o… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative composed retrieval results on PatternCom with OpenAI CLIP. Comparison between unimodal and multimodal methods. Each query is shown as a reference image combined with a boxed textual modifier. Columns report the top-2 retrieved results. Retrieval is evaluated under the same class + target attribute value relevance criterion. all shown cases, producing results that simultaneously re￾spect the que… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative composed retrieval results on xView2-CIR with OpenAI CLIP and WeiCom. Each query combines a pre-disaster reference image with a boxed textual modifier (post-*) indicating the target post-event state. We show the top retrieved post-disaster results per disaster type. Retrieval is evaluated under the same scene/location + target state relevance criterion, so visually plausible post-event matches … view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative composed retrieval on LEVIR-CC with OpenAI CLIP and WeiCom. Each query is shown as a reference image combined with a textual change modifier. We report the top retrieved candidates under the same location + target state relevance criterion. 4.4. Sensitivity and Ablation Analysis Impact of 𝜆 in WeiCom [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Impact of modality control 𝜆 in WeiCom with RemoteCLIP on PatternCom. Curves report attribute-wise mAP (%) as 𝜆 varies. Psomas et al. Page 9 of 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Impact of visual expansion on FreeDom with CLIP LAION-2B on PatternCom. The number of proxy images 𝑘 is varied while textual expansion is disabled (𝑚=𝑛=1). 1 5 10 20 50 100 200 500 4 6 8 10 Number of proxy images 𝑘 (with 𝑚=𝑛=1) mAP (%) Hurricane Wildfire Flood Total [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Impact of visual expansion on FreeDom with OpenAI CLIP on xView2-CIR. The number of proxy images 𝑘 is varied while textual expansion is disabled (𝑚=𝑛=1). Ablation of BASIC components. We further analyze the contribution of BASIC components, with full results reported in A.5. On PatternCom, the largest drops occur when removing centering or semantic projection, indicating that modality calibration and sema… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Impact of textual expansion on FreeDom with CLIP LAION-2B on PatternCom. Visual expansion is disabled (𝑘=1), and the number of aggregated textual concepts is varied as 𝑚=𝑛. Impact of visual expansion on FreeDom [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: CompoDiff hyperparameter sweep with SkyCLIP￾50 on PatternCom. We report average mAP as a function of source weight for different numbers of diffusion timesteps. SEARLE hyperparameter sensitivity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: SEARLE hyperparameter sweep with CLIP LAION￾2B on PatternCom. We report average mAP as a function of learning rate, number of inversion steps, and GPT mixing coefficient 𝜆GPT. Ablation of BASIC components [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗

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