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We aim for zero-shot localization and classification of human actions in video. Where traditional approaches rely on global attribute or object classification scores for their zero-shot knowledge transfer, our main contribution is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Embeddings are an important tool for the representation of word meaning. Their effectiveness rests on the distributional hypothesis: words that occur in the same context carry similar semantic information. Here, we adapt this approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Matthias S. Treder , Juan Mayor-Torres , Christoph Teufel

While neural networks have shown impressive performance on large datasets, applying these models to tasks where little data is available remains a challenging problem. In this paper we propose to use feature transfer in a zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Javid Dadashkarimi , Alexander Fabbri , Sekhar Tatikonda , Dragomir R. Radev

Supervised learning methods can solve the given problem in the presence of a large set of labeled data. However, the acquisition of a dataset covering all the target classes typically requires manual labeling which is expensive and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Duygu Dogan , Huang Xie , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

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

We address zero-shot (ZS) learning, building upon prior work in hierarchical classification by combining it with approaches based on semantic attribute estimation. For both non-novel and novel image classes we compare multiple formulations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Jared Markowitz , Aurora C. Schmidt , Philippe M. Burlina , I-Jeng Wang

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) seeks to recognize unseen state-object pairs by recombining primitives learned from seen compositions. Despite recent progress with vision-language models (VLMs), two limitations remain: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhong Peng , Yishi Xu , Gerong Wang , Wenchao Chen , Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Hongwei Liu

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 spoken language understanding (SLU) enables systems to comprehend user utterances in new domains without prior exposure to training data. Recent studies often rely on large language models (LLMs), leading to excessive footprints…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Mohan Li , Simon Keizer , Rama Doddipatla

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 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

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has gradually become popular as it has many advantages compared with cascade S2ST. However, current research mainly focuses on the accuracy of semantic translation and ignores the speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kun Song , Yi Ren , Yi Lei , Chunfeng Wang , Kun Wei , Lei Xie , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

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 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 (ZSL) has received extensive attention and successes in recent years especially in areas of fine-grained object recognition, retrieval, and image captioning. Key to ZSL is to transfer knowledge from the seen to the unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Xingxing Zhang , Shupeng Gui , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao , Ji Liu

We introduce the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign class examples to recognize the instances of unseen signs. To this end, we propose to utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yunus Can Bilge , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Building a semantic parser quickly in a new domain is a fundamental challenge for conversational interfaces, as current semantic parsers require expensive supervision and lack the ability to generalize to new domains. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jonathan Herzig , Jonathan Berant

Generating combined visual and auditory sensory experiences is critical for the consumption of immersive content. Recent advances in neural generative models have enabled the creation of high-resolution content across multiple modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Rishit Dagli , Shivesh Prakash , Robert Wu , Houman Khosravani

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), generative methods synthesize class-related sample features based on predefined semantic prototypes. They advance the ZSL performance by synthesizing unseen class sample features for better training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shiming Chen , Wenjin Hou , Ziming Hong , Xiaohan Ding , Yibing Song , Xinge You , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang