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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) makes object recognition in images possible in absence of visual training data for a part of the classes from a dataset. When the number of classes is large, classes are usually represented by semantic class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Yannick Le Cacheux , Adrian Popescu , Hervé Le Borgne

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by aligning images with intermediate class semantics, like human-annotated concepts or class definitions. An emerging alternative leverages Large-scale Language Models (LLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Shiming Chen , Yaochu Jin , Kaizhu Huang , Xiaobo Jin

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen object classes without any training samples, which can be regarded as a form of transfer learning from seen classes to unseen ones. This is made possible by learning a projection between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 An Zhao , Mingyu Ding , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

To recognize objects of the unseen classes, most existing Zero-Shot Learning(ZSL) methods first learn a compatible projection function between the common semantic space and the visual space based on the data of source seen classes, then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ziyu Wan , Dongdong Chen , Yan Li , Xingguang Yan , Junge Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jing Liao

The number of categories for action recognition is growing rapidly and it has become increasingly hard to label sufficient training data for learning conventional models for all categories. Instead of collecting ever more data and labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Xun Xu , Timothy Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

In computer vision applications, such as domain adaptation (DA), few shot learning (FSL) and zero-shot learning (ZSL), we encounter new objects and environments, for which insufficient examples exist to allow for training "models from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to learn models that can recognize unseen image semantics based on the training of data with seen semantics. Recent studies either leverage the global image features or mine discriminative local patch features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 De Cheng , Gerong Wang , Bo Wang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Dingwen Zhang

Zero-shot Learners are models capable of predicting unseen classes. In this work, we propose a Zero-shot Learning approach for text categorization. Our method involves training model on a large corpus of sentences to learn the relationship…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Pushpankar Kumar Pushp , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

Zero-shot learning, which studies the problem of object classification for categories for which we have no training examples, is gaining increasing attention from community. Most existing ZSL methods exploit deterministic transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yanan Li , Donghui Wang

In Zero-shot learning (ZSL), we classify unseen categories using textual descriptions about their expected appearance when observed (class embeddings) and a disjoint pool of seen classes, for which annotated visual data are accessible. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jacopo Cavazza

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

In a traditional setting, classifiers are trained to approximate a target function $f:X \rightarrow Y$ where at least a sample for each $y \in Y$ is presented to the training algorithm. In a zero-shot setting we have a subset of the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Gaurav Singh , Fabrizio Silvestri , John Shawe-Taylor

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing unseen class examples (e.g., images) with knowledge transferred from seen classes. This is typically achieved by exploiting a semantic feature space shared by both seen and unseen classes, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jingcai Guo

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) has received increasing attention in recent years especially in areas of fine-grained object recognition, retrieval, and image captioning. The key to ZSL is to transfer knowledge from the seen to the unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhizhe Liu , Xingxing Zhang , Zhenfeng Zhu , Shuai Zheng , Yao Zhao , Jian Cheng

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes without visual instances. However, existing methods usually assume clean labels, overlooking real-world label noise and ambiguity, which degrades performance. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiangnan Li , Linqing Huang , Xiaowen Yan , Min Gan , Wenpeng Lu , Jinfu Fan

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

A typical pipeline for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is to integrate the visual features and the class semantic descriptors into a multimodal framework with a linear or bilinear model. However, the visual features and the class semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zhong Ji , Yunxin Sun , Yulong Yu , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang

Most existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods have the strong bias problem, in which instances of unseen (target) classes tend to be categorized as one of the seen (source) classes. So they yield poor performance after being deployed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Yezhou Yang , Yang Liu , Mingli Song

The number of categories for action recognition is growing rapidly. It is thus becoming increasingly hard to collect sufficient training data to learn conventional models for each category. This issue may be ameliorated by the increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Xun Xu , Timothy Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize novel classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Though many ZSL methods rely on a direct mapping between the visual and the semantic space, the calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Yang Liu , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada , Jun Zhou