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The ability of a classifier to recognize unknown inputs is important for many classification-based systems. We discuss the problem of simultaneous classification and novelty detection, i.e. determining whether an input is from the known set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Mark Kliger , Shachar Fleishman

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 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

The recent advance in deep generative models outlines a promising perspective in the realm of Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL). Most generative ZSL methods use category semantic attributes plus a Gaussian noise to generate visual features. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xiaojie Zhao , Yuming Shen , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

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

Generative based strategy has shown great potential in the Generalized Zero-Shot Learning task. However, it suffers severe generalization problem due to lacking of feature diversity for unseen classes to train a good classifier. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Bonan Li , Xuecheng Nie , Congying Han

We present a simple generative framework for learning to predict previously unseen classes, based on estimating class-attribute-gated class-conditional distributions. We model each class-conditional distribution as an exponential family…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai

We consider the problem of zero-shot recognition: learning a visual classifier for a category with zero training examples, just using the word embedding of the category and its relationship to other categories, which visual data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Xiaolong Wang , Yufei Ye , Abhinav Gupta

We present a deep generative model for learning to predict classes not seen at training time. Unlike most existing methods for this problem, that represent each class as a point (via a semantic embedding), we represent each seen/unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Vinay Kumar Verma , Kai Fan , Yizhe Zhang , Changyou Chen , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

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 action recognition is the task of recognizingaction classes without visual examples, only with a seman-tic embedding which relates unseen to seen classes. Theproblem can be seen as learning a function which general-izes well to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shreyank N Gowda , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Frank Keller , Marcus Rohrbach

Achieving visual semantic understanding requires a unified framework that simultaneously handles object detection, category prediction, and attribute recognition. However, current advanced approaches rely on global similarity and struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xinyu Nan , Lingtao Mao , Huangyu Dai , Zexin Zheng , Xinyu Sun , Zihan Liang , Ben Chen , Yuqing Ding , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou , Han Li

Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods typically synthesize visual features for unseen classes using predefined semantic attributes, followed by training a fully supervised classification model. While effective, these methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Md Shakil Ahamed Shohag , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Farhad Pourpanah

Zero shot learning in Image Classification refers to the setting where images from some novel classes are absent in the training data but other information such as natural language descriptions or attribute vectors of the classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ashish Mishra , M Shiva Krishna Reddy , Anurag Mittal , Hema A Murthy

Generative modeling has been the dominant approach for large-scale pretraining and zero-shot generalization. In this work, we challenge this convention by showing that discriminative approaches perform substantially better than generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Haike Xu , Zongyu Lin , Jing Zhou , Yanan Zheng , Zhilin Yang

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

Prevalent techniques in zero-shot learning do not generalize well to other related problem scenarios. Here, we present a unified approach for conventional zero-shot, generalized zero-shot and few-shot learning problems. Our approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Shafin Rahman , Salman H. Khan , Fatih Porikli

Zero-shot action recognition requires a strong ability to generalize from pre-training and seen classes to novel unseen classes. Similarly, continual learning aims to develop models that can generalize effectively and learn new tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shreyank N Gowda , Davide Moltisanti , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Learning novel concepts, remembering previous knowledge, and adapting it to future tasks occur simultaneously throughout a human's lifetime. To model such comprehensive abilities, continual zero-shot learning (CZSL) has recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wenxuan Zhang , Paul Janson , Kai Yi , Ivan Skorokhodov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

One-shot fine-grained visual recognition often suffers from the problem of having few training examples for new fine-grained classes. To alleviate this problem, off-the-shelf image generation techniques based on Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall