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In this paper, we address zero-shot learning (ZSL), the problem of recognizing categories for which no labeled visual data are available during training. We focus on the transductive setting, in which unlabelled visual data from unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Marmoreo , Jacopo Cavazza , Vittorio Murino

In zero-shot learning (ZSL), generative methods synthesize class-related sample features based on predefined semantic prototypes. They advance the ZSL performance by synthesizing unseen class sample features for better training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shiming Chen , Wenjin Hou , Ziming Hong , Xiaohan Ding , Yibing Song , Xinge You , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

Zero-shot point cloud segmentation aims to make deep models capable of recognizing novel objects in point cloud that are unseen in the training phase. Recent trends favor the pipeline which transfers knowledge from seen classes with labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yuhang Lu , Qi Jiang , Runnan Chen , Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) presents the challenge of identifying categories not seen during training. This task is crucial in domains where it is costly, prohibited, or simply not feasible to collect training data. ZSL depends on a mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 William Heyden , Habib Ullah , M. Salman Siddiqui , Fadi Al Machot

Robust object recognition systems usually rely on powerful feature extraction mechanisms from a large number of real images. However, in many realistic applications, collecting sufficient images for ever-growing new classes is unattainable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Yang Long , Li Liu , Ling Shao , Fumin Shen , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

Deep neural networks have achieved promising progress in remote sensing (RS) image classification, for which the training process requires abundant samples for each class. However, it is time-consuming and unrealistic to annotate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Mugen Peng , Yirong Wu

Generalised zero-shot learning (GZSL) is a classification problem where the learning stage relies on a set of seen visual classes and the inference stage aims to identify both the seen visual classes and a new set of unseen visual classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rafael Felix , Ben Harwood , Michele Sasdelli , Gustavo Carneiro

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is achieved via aligning the semantic relationships between the global image feature vector and the corresponding class semantic descriptions. However, using the global features to represent fine-grained images may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Fu , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Human-annotated attributes serve as powerful semantic embeddings in zero-shot learning. However, their annotation process is labor-intensive and needs expert supervision. Current unsupervised semantic embeddings, i.e., word embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Large Language Models are increasingly used as zero-shot classifiers in complex reasoning tasks. However, standard constrained decoding suffers from a phenomenon we define as Renormalization Bias. When a model is restricted to a small set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sanket Badhe , Priyanka Tiwari , Deep Shah

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize the unseen classes in the open-world guided by the side-information (e.g., attributes). Its key task is how to infer the latent semantic knowledge between visual and attribute features on seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Guo-Sen Xie , Xinge You

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

Signal recognition is one of significant and challenging tasks in the signal processing and communications field. It is often a common situation that there's no training data accessible for some signal classes to perform a recognition task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yihong Dong , Xiaohan Jiang , Huaji Zhou , Yun Lin , Qingjiang Shi

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is typically achieved by resorting to a class semantic embedding space to transfer the knowledge from the seen classes to unseen ones. Capturing the common semantic characteristics between the visual modality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei , Zhang

We improve zero-shot learning (ZSL) by incorporating common-sense knowledge in DNNs. We propose Common-Sense based Neuro-Symbolic Loss (CSNL) that formulates prior knowledge as novel neuro-symbolic loss functions that regularize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Karan Sikka , Jihua Huang , Andrew Silberfarb , Prateeth Nayak , Luke Rohrer , Pritish Sahu , John Byrnes , Ajay Divakaran , Richard Rohwer

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize novel classes through transferring shared semantic knowledge (e.g., attributes) from seen classes to unseen classes. Recently, attention-based methods have exhibited significant progress which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jinwei Han , Yingguo Gao , Zhiwen Lin , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Yuan Gao , Gui-Song Xia

Existing zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods usually learn a projection function between a feature space and a semantic embedding space(text or attribute space) in the training seen classes or testing unseen classes. However, the projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Guangfeng Lin , Caixia Fan , Wanjun Chen , Yajun Chen , Fan Zhao

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes without labeled training examples by leveraging class-level semantic descriptors such as attributes. A fundamental challenge in ZSL is semantic misalignment, where semantic-unrelated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhi Chen , Zecheng Zhao , Jingcai Guo , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang