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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods have been studied in the unrealistic setting where test data are assumed to come from unseen classes only. In this paper, we advocate studying the problem of generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Soravit Changpinyo , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects (test classes) given some other seen objects (training classes), by sharing information of attributes between different objects. Attributes are artificially annotated for objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from unseen classes, where the kernel problem is to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes by establishing appropriate mappings between visual and semantic features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

Zero-shot learning for visual recognition, e.g., object and action recognition, has recently attracted a lot of attention. However, it still remains challenging in bridging the semantic gap between visual features and their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

The task of zero-shot learning (ZSL) requires correctly predicting the label of samples from classes which were unseen at training time. This is achieved by leveraging side information about class labels, such as label attributes or word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Colin Samplawski , Jannik Wolff , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Zero shot learning (ZSL) has seen a surge in interest over the decade for its tight links with the mechanism making young children recognize novel objects. Although different paradigms of visual semantic embedding models are designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yue Jiao , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

We introduce a novel problem of scene sketch zero-shot learning (SSZSL), which is a challenging task, since (i) different from photo, the gap between common semantic domain (e.g., word vector) and sketch is too huge to exploit common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yao Xie , Peng Xu , Zhanyu Ma

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) is a technique to train a deep learning model to identify unseen classes using the attribute. In this paper, we put forth a new GZSL technique that improves the GZSL classification performance greatly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Junhan Kim , Kyuhong Shim , Byonghyo Shim

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to recognize unseen classes with no labeled training sample, efficiently tackles the problem of missing labeled data in image retrieval. Nowadays there are mainly two types of popular methods for ZSL to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Gang Yang , Jinlu Liu , Xirong Li

Although zero-shot learning (ZSL) has an inferential capability of recognizing new classes that have never been seen before, it always faces two fundamental challenges of the cross modality and crossdomain challenges. In order to alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Cheng Xie , Hongxin Xiang , Ting Zeng , Yun Yang , Beibei Yu , Qing Liu

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

Generalized zero-shot semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds aims to classify each point into both seen and unseen classes. A significant challenge with these models is their tendency to make biased predictions, often favoring the classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hyeonseok Kim , Byeongkeun Kang , Yeejin Lee

Zero shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by exploiting semantic relationships between seen and unseen classes. Two major problems faced by ZSL algorithms are the hubness problem and the bias towards the seen classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Akanksha Paul , Narayanan C. Krishnan , Prateek Munjal

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) has been shown to be a promising approach to generalizing a model to categories unseen during training by leveraging class attributes, but challenges still remain. Recently, methods using generative models to combat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Lawrence Carin

Current deep visual recognition systems suffer from severe performance degradation when they encounter new images from classes and scenarios unseen during training. Hence, the core challenge of Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is to cope with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain so that the target domain data can be recognized without any explicit labelling information for this domain. One limitation of the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Qian Wang , Penghui Bu , Toby P. Breckon

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) aims to recognize images from both the seen and unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen to unseen classes. It is a promising solution to take the advantage of generative models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Sen Wang , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) highly depends on a good semantic embedding to connect the seen and unseen classes. Recently, distributed word embeddings (DWE) pre-trained from large text corpus have become a popular choice to draw such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Ruizhi Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel