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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

Leveraging class semantic descriptions and examples of known objects, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model for an object class whose examples are not available. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Fei Sha

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

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging task aiming at recognizing novel classes without any training instances. In this paper we present a simple but high-performance ZSL approach by generating pseudo feature representations (GPFR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jiang Lu , Jin Li , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL), which aims to predict for those classes that have never appeared in the training data, has arisen hot research interests. The key of implementing ZSL is to leverage the prior knowledge of classes which builds the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuxia Geng , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhuo Chen , Jeff Z. Pan , Zhiquan Ye , Zonggang Yuan , Yantao Jia , Huajun Chen

A classic approach toward zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to map the input domain to a set of semantically meaningful attributes that could be used later on to classify unseen classes of data (e.g. visual data). In this paper, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Soheil Kolouri , Mohammad Rostami , Yuri Owechko , Kyungnam Kim

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

We introduce a simple yet effective episode-based training framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL), where the learning system requires to recognize unseen classes given only the corresponding class semantics. During training, the model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Zhongfei Zhang , Jungong Han

Recently, many zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods focused on learning discriminative object features in an embedding feature space, however, the distributions of the unseen-class features learned by these methods are prone to be partly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

Supervised learning requires a sufficient training dataset which includes all label. However, there are cases that some class is not in the training data. Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is the task of predicting class that is not in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Toshitaka Hayashi , Hamido Fujita

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by exploiting semantic descriptions shared between seen classes and unseen classes. Current methods show that it is effective to learn visual-semantic alignment by projecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Zaiquan Yang , Yang Liu , Wenjia Xu , Chong Huang , Lei Zhou , Chao Tong

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) aims to enable image classifiers to recognize images from unseen classes that were not included during training. Unlike traditional supervised classification, ZSL typically relies on learning a mapping from visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhiyuan Peng , Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Yuping Yan , Haotian Xu , Ling Shao

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

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

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) enables classifiers to recognize classes unseen during training, commonly via generative two stage methods: (1) learn visual semantic correlations from seen classes; (2) synthesize unseen class features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Kaile Du , Weijian Luo , Ling Shao

Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) deals with the problem of predicting class labels for target domain instances based on source domain side information (e.g. attributes) of unseen classes. We formulate ZSR as a binary prediction problem. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

This paper presents a method of zero-shot learning (ZSL) which poses ZSL as the missing data problem, rather than the missing label problem. Specifically, most existing ZSL methods focus on learning mapping functions from the image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Botong Wu , Tianfu Wu , Yizhou Wang

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is typically achieved by resorting to a class semantic embedding space to transfer the knowledge from the seen classes to unseen ones. Capturing the common semantic characteristics between the visual modality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei , Zhang