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Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maxime Bucher , Tuan-Hung Vu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

We address the challenge of building task-agnostic classifiers using only text descriptions, demonstrating a unified approach to image classification, 3D point cloud classification, and action recognition from scenes. Unlike approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ohad Amosy , Tomer Volk , Eilam Shapira , Eyal Ben-David , Roi Reichart , Gal Chechik

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Understanding images without explicit supervision has become an important problem in computer vision. In this paper, we address image captioning by generating language descriptions of scenes without learning from annotated pairs of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Nassir Navab

We study estimation of a class prior for unlabeled target samples which possibly differs from that of source population. Moreover, it is assumed that the source data is partially observable: only samples from the positive class and from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-22 Jan Mielniczuk , Wojciech Rejchel , Paweł Teisseyre

The existing zero-shot detection approaches project visual features to the semantic domain for seen objects, hoping to map unseen objects to their corresponding semantics during inference. However, since the unseen objects are never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Nasir Hayat , Munawar Hayat , Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Syed Waqas Zamir , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) have shown powerful zero-shot transfer capabilities. But they still struggle with domain shifts and typically require labeled data to adapt to downstream tasks, which could be costly. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiachen Liang , Ruibing Hou , Minyang Hu , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

We present an unsupervised visual feature learning algorithm driven by context-based pixel prediction. By analogy with auto-encoders, we propose Context Encoders -- a convolutional neural network trained to generate the contents of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krahenbuhl , Jeff Donahue , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros

In a real-world setting, visual recognition systems can be brought to make predictions for images belonging to previously unknown class labels. In order to make semantically meaningful predictions for such inputs, we propose a two-step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Vincent P. A. Lonij , Ambrish Rawat , Maria-Irina Nicolae

Many machine learning techniques have been proposed in the last few years to process data represented in graph-structured form. Graphs can be used to model several scenarios, from molecules and materials to RNA secondary structures. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Nicolò Navarin , Dinh V. Tran , Alessandro Sperduti

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in unsupervised image-to-image translation. However, if there has no access to enough images in target classes, learning a mapping from source classes to the target classes always suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yuanqi Chen , Xiaoming Yu , Shan Liu , Ge Li

Humans can visualize new and unknown concepts from their natural language description, based on their experience and previous knowledge. Insipired by this, we present a way to extend this ability to Vision-Language Models (VLMs), teaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Carlo Alberto Barbano , Luca Molinaro , Massimiliano Ciranni , Emanuele Aiello , Vito Paolo Pastore , Marco Grangetto

Functional Distributional Semantics is a recently proposed framework for learning distributional semantics that provides linguistic interpretability. It models the meaning of a word as a binary classifier rather than a numerical vector. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yinhong Liu , Guy Emerson

We present a deep generative model for learning to predict classes not seen at training time. Unlike most existing methods for this problem, that represent each class as a point (via a semantic embedding), we represent each seen/unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Vinay Kumar Verma , Kai Fan , Yizhe Zhang , Changyou Chen , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

Representing images by compact codes has proven beneficial for many visual recognition tasks. Most existing techniques, however, perform this coding step directly in image feature space, where the distributions of the different classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Mehrtash Harandi , Mathieu Salzmann

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of large-scale pre-training frameworks that can extract multi-modal representations in a unified form and achieve promising performances when transferred to downstream tasks. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xuran Pan , Tianzhu Ye , Dongchen Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a fully differentiable unsupervised deep clustering approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Steven Hickson , Anelia Angelova , Irfan Essa , Rahul Sukthankar

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuanyuan Chang , Yinghua Yao , Tao Qin , Mengmeng Wang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Deep learning models heavily rely on large scale annotated datasets for training. Unfortunately, datasets cannot capture the infinite variability of the real world, thus neural networks are inherently limited by the restricted visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Massimiliano Mancini