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We propose a novel approach for unsupervised zero-shot learning (ZSL) of classes based on their names. Most existing unsupervised ZSL methods aim to learn a model for directly comparing image features and class names. However, this proves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims at predicting classes that have never appeared during the training using external knowledge (a.k.a. side information) has been widely investigated. In this paper we present a literature review towards ZSL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Zhuo Chen , Ian Horrocks , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

Remarkable progress in zero-shot learning (ZSL) has been achieved using generative models. However, existing generative ZSL methods merely generate (imagine) the visual features from scratch guided by the strong class semantic vectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shiming Chen , Dingjie Fu , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones, guided by semantic information. To this end, existing works have demonstrated remarkable performance by utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Wenjin Hou , Dingjie Fu , Kun Li , Shiming Chen , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

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

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) and Open-Set Recognition (OSR) are two mainstream settings that greatly extend conventional visual object recognition. However, the limitations of their problem settings are not negligible. The novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zhaonan Li , Hongfu Liu

The Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) task attempts to learn concepts without any labeled data. Unlike traditional classification/detection tasks, the evaluation environment is provided unseen classes never encountered during training. As such, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Abhijit Suprem

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel compositions using knowledge learned from seen attribute-object compositions in the training set. Previous works mainly project an image and a composition into a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tian Zhang , Kongming Liang , Ruoyi Du , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

It is a recognized fact that the classification accuracy of unseen classes in the setting of Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) is much lower than that of traditional Zero-Shot Leaning (ZSL). One of the reasons is that an instance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xinpeng Li

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a popular research problem that aims at predicting for those classes that have never appeared in the training stage by utilizing the inter-class relationship with some side information. In this study, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jiaoyan Chen , Freddy Lecue , Yuxia Geng , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

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

Deep learning models have the ability to extract rich knowledge from large-scale datasets. However, the sharing of data has become increasingly challenging due to concerns regarding data copyright and privacy. Consequently, this hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Bowen Tang , Long Yan , Jing Zhang , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

Transductive Zero-shot learning (ZSL) targets to recognize the unseen categories by aligning the visual and semantic information in a joint embedding space. There exist four kinds of domain biases in Transductive ZSL, i.e., visual bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Hantao Yao , Shaobo Min , Yongdong Zhang , Changsheng Xu

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

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

This paper proposes a novel Zero-Shot Action Recognition~(ZSAR) method based on contrastive learning. In ZSAR, we aim to classify examples from classes that were missing during training. Two well-known problems remain in ZSAR: the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

In Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL), embedding-based methods enable knowledge transfer from seen to unseen classes by learning a visual-semantic mapping from seen-class images to class-level semantic prototypes (e.g., attributes). However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Wang , Shiming Chen , Guo-Sen Xie , Ziming Hong , Chaojian Yu , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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