English
Related papers

Related papers: Zero and Few Shot Learning with Semantic Feature S…

200 papers

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) focuses on classifying samples of unseen classes with only their side semantic information presented during training. It cannot handle real-life, open-world scenarios where there are test samples of unknown classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tianqi Li , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Lei Zhou , Xin Ning

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 2024-08-27 Ziming Liu , Jingcai Guo , Song Guo , Xiaocheng Lu

Learning to classify unseen class samples at test time is popularly referred to as zero-shot learning (ZSL). If test samples can be from training (seen) as well as unseen classes, it is a more challenging problem due to the existence of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-11 Vinay Kumar Verma , Dhanajit Brahma , Piyush Rai

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is a classification task where we do not have even a single training labeled example from a set of unseen classes. Instead, we only have prior information (or description) about seen and unseen classes, often in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shabnam Daghaghi , Tharun Medini , Anshumali Shrivastava

The need to address the scarcity of task-specific annotated data has resulted in concerted efforts in recent years for specific settings such as zero-shot learning (ZSL) and domain generalization (DG), to separately address the issues of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shivam Chandhok , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by generalizing the knowledge, i.e., visual and semantic relationships, obtained from seen classes, where image augmentation techniques are commonly applied to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhi Chen , Pengfei Zhang , Jingjing Li , Sen Wang , Zi Huang

Zero-Shot Learning is an important paradigm within General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems, particularly in those that operate in open-world scenarios where systems must adapt to new tasks dynamically. Semantic spaces play a pivotal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Juan Jose Herrera-Aranda , Guillermo Gomez-Trenado , Francisco Herrera , Isaac Triguero

Existing zero-shot learning (ZSL) models typically learn a projection function from a feature space to a semantic embedding space (e.g.~attribute space). However, such a projection function is only concerned with predicting the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Elyor Kodirov , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

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 (ZSL) extends the conventional image classification technique to a more challenging situation where the test image categories are not seen in the training samples. Most studies on ZSL utilize side information such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Zhong Ji , Yuzhong Xie , Yanwei Pang , Lei Chen , Zhongfei Zhang

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) addresses the unseen class recognition problem by leveraging semantic information to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Generative models synthesize the unseen visual features and convert ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Maunil R Vyas , Hemanth Venkateswara , Sethuraman Panchanathan

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 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-descriptor-based Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) poses challenges in recognizing novel classes in the test phase. The development of generative models enables current GZSL techniques to probe further into the semantic-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Dubing Chen , Yuming Shen , Haofeng Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from seen classes to semantically related unseen classes, which are absent during training. The promising strategies for ZSL are to synthesize visual features of unseen classes conditioned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yun Li , Zhe Liu , Lina Yao , Xiaojun Chang

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

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 is a new paradigm to classify objects from classes that are not available at training time. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods have attracted considerable attention in recent years because of their ability to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chandan Gautam , Sethupathy Parameswaran , Ashish Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to classify samples under the assumption that some classes are not observable during training. To bridge the gap between the seen and unseen classes, most GZSL methods attempt to associate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Ruihong Qiu , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Jingjing Li , Zheng Zhang