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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) models rely on learning a joint embedding space where both textual/semantic description of object classes and visual representation of object images can be projected to for nearest neighbour search. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Generative Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods synthesize class-related features based on predefined class semantic prototypes, showcasing superior performance. However, this feature generation paradigm falls short of providing interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Dingjie Fu , Wenjin Hou , Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Xinge You , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Zero shot learning (ZSL) has seen a surge in interest over the decade for its tight links with the mechanism making young children recognize novel objects. Although different paradigms of visual semantic embedding models are designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yue Jiao , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to train models to recognize novel compositional concepts based on learned concepts such as attribute-object combinations. One of the challenges is to model attributes interacted with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qingsheng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chenchen Jing , Hao Chen , Guoqiang Liang , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen

We present a meta-learning based generative model for zero-shot learning (ZSL) towards a challenging setting when the number of training examples from each \emph{seen} class is very few. This setup contrasts with the conventional ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Ashish Mishra , Anubha Pandey , Hema A. Murthy , Piyush Rai

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to recognize both seen and unseen classes by transferring knowledge from semantic descriptions to visual representations. Recent generative methods formulate GZSL as a missing data problem, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Yu-Chao Gu , Le Zhang , Yun Liu , Shao-Ping Lu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects using disjoint seen objects via sharing attributes. The generalization performance of ZSL is governed by the attributes, which transfer semantic information from seen classes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

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) tackles the novel class recognition problem by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones. Existing attention-based models have struggled to learn inferior region features in a single image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shiming Chen , Ziming Hong , Wenjin Hou , Guo-Sen Xie , Yibing Song , Jian Zhao , Xinge You , Shuicheng Yan , Ling Shao

In image recognition, there are many cases where training samples cannot cover all target classes. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) utilizes the class semantic information to classify samples of the unseen categories that have no corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Fan Wu , Kai Tian , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) endeavors to transfer knowledge from seen categories to recognize unseen categories, which mostly relies on the semantic-visual interactions between image and attribute tokens. Recently, prompt learning has emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Man Liu , Huihui Bai , Feng Li , Chunjie Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Tat-Seng Chua , Yao Zhao

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) aims to recognize unseen classes without labeled training examples by leveraging class-level semantic descriptors such as attributes. A fundamental challenge in ZSL is semantic misalignment, where semantic-unrelated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhi Chen , Zecheng Zhao , Jingcai Guo , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Recent deep learning architectures can recognize instances of 3D point cloud objects of previously seen classes quite well. At the same time, current 3D depth camera technology allows generating/segmenting a large amount of 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , Lars Petersson

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) refers to the problem of learning to classify instances from the novel classes (unseen) that are absent in the training set (seen). Most ZSL methods infer the correlation between visual features and attributes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Zhe Liu , Yun Li , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Guodong Long

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to discriminate images from unseen classes by exploiting relations to seen classes via their semantic descriptions. Some recent papers have shown the importance of localized features together with fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Shiqi Yang , Kai Wang , Luis Herranz , Joost van de Weijer

Existing methods using generative adversarial approaches for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aim to generate realistic visual features from class semantics by a single generative network, which is highly under-constrained. As a result, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhi Chen , Jingjing Li , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang , Yang Yang

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, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

Multi-label zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a more realistic counter-part of standard single-label ZSL since several objects can co-exist in a natural image. However, the occurrence of multiple objects complicates the reasoning and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Sanath Narayan , Akshita Gupta , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Mubarak Shah