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Few-shot learning is a fundamental and challenging problem since it requires recognizing novel categories from only a few examples. The objects for recognition have multiple variants and can locate anywhere in images. Directly comparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) endeavors to transfer knowledge from seen categories to recognize unseen categories, which mostly relies on the semantic-visual interactions between image and attribute tokens. Recently, prompt learning has emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Man Liu , Huihui Bai , Feng Li , Chunjie Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Tat-Seng Chua , Yao Zhao

Given semantic descriptions of object classes, zero-shot learning aims to accurately recognize objects of the unseen classes, from which no examples are available at the training stage, by associating them to the seen classes, from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) synthesizes features for unseen classes, leveraging semantic conditions to transfer knowledge from seen classes. However, it also introduces two intrinsic challenges: (1) class-level attributes fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haojie Pu , Zhuoming Li , Yongbiao Gao , Yuheng Jia

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones so that the latter can be recognised without any training samples. This is made possible by learning a projection function between a feature space and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Jiechao Guan , Tao Xiang , Liwei Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

We propose a novel framework called Semantics-Preserving Adversarial Embedding Network (SP-AEN) for zero-shot visual recognition (ZSL), where test images and their classes are both unseen during training. SP-AEN aims to tackle the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Long Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Wei Liu , Shih-Fu Chang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by exploiting semantic descriptions shared between seen classes and unseen classes. Current methods show that it is effective to learn visual-semantic alignment by projecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Zaiquan Yang , Yang Liu , Wenjia Xu , Chong Huang , Lei Zhou , Chao Tong

Conventional centralised deep learning paradigms are not feasible when data from different sources cannot be shared due to data privacy or transmission limitation. To resolve this problem, federated learning has been introduced to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shitong Sun , Chenyang Si , Guile Wu , Shaogang Gong

This paper investigates a challenging problem of zero-shot learning in the multi-label scenario (MLZSL), wherein, the model is trained to recognize multiple unseen classes within a sample (e.g., an image) based on seen classes and auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ziming Liu , Jingcai Guo , Xiaocheng Lu , Song Guo , Peiran Dong , Jiewei Zhang

Recent zero-shot learning (ZSL) approaches have integrated fine-grained analysis, i.e., fine-grained ZSL, to mitigate the commonly known seen/unseen domain bias and misaligned visual-semantics mapping problems, and have made profound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jingcai Guo , Zhijie Rao , Zhi Chen , Jingren Zhou , Dacheng Tao

This work is a systematical analysis on the so-called hard class problem in zero-shot learning (ZSL), that is, some unseen classes disproportionally affect the ZSL performances than others, as well as how to remedy the problem by detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Bo Liu , Lihua Hu , Zhanyi Hu , Qiulei Dong

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel attribute-object compositions by leveraging knowledge from seen compositions. Current methods align textual prototypes with visual features via Vision-Language Models (VLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shiyu Zhang , Cheng Yan , Yang Liu , Chenchen Jing , Lei Zhou , Wenjun Wang

The key of zero-shot learning (ZSL) is how to find the information transfer model for bridging the gap between images and semantic information (texts or attributes). Existing ZSL methods usually construct the compatibility function between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Guangfeng Lin , Yajun Chen , Fan Zhao

Zero-shot multi-label recognition (MLR) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces significant challenges without training data, model tuning, or architectural modifications. Existing approaches require prompt tuning or architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kevin Miller , Samarth Mishra , Aditya Gangrade , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) tackles the novel class recognition problem by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones. Existing attention-based models have struggled to learn inferior region features in a single image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shiming Chen , Ziming Hong , Wenjin Hou , Guo-Sen Xie , Yibing Song , Jian Zhao , Xinge You , Shuicheng Yan , Ling Shao

While there has been a number of studies on Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) for 2D images, its application to 3D data is still recent and scarce, with just a few methods limited to classification. We present the first generative approach for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Björn Michele , Alexandre Boulch , Gilles Puy , Maxime Bucher , Renaud Marlet

This paper introduces a novel framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL), i.e., to recognize new categories that are unseen during training, by using a multi-model and multi-alignment integration method. Specifically, we propose three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Siqi Yin , Lifan Jiang

We introduce the isoperimetric loss as a regularization criterion for learning the map from a visual representation to a semantic embedding, to be used to transfer knowledge to unknown classes in a zero-shot learning setting. We use a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Shay Deutsch , Andrea Bertozzi , Stefano Soatto

Zero-shot learning uses semantic attributes to connect the search space of unseen objects. In recent years, although the deep convolutional network brings powerful visual modeling capabilities to the ZSL task, its visual features have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Yang Hu , Guihua Wen , Adriane Chapman , Pei Yang , Mingnan Luo , Yingxue Xu , Dan Dai , Wendy Hall

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to discriminate images from unseen classes by exploiting relations to seen classes via their attribute-based descriptions. Since attributes are often related to specific parts of objects, many recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Shiqi Yang , Kai Wang , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer