English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards Recognizing Unseen Categories in Unseen Do…

200 papers

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at automatically recognizing the instances from unseen object classes without training data. To address this problem, ZSL is usually carried out in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Xi Li , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei Zhang , Haibin Ling , Fei Wu

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) aims to recognize target-domain data instances of unseen classes based on the models learned from associated pairs of seen-class source and target domain data. One of the key challenges in ZSR is the relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

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

Standard supervised learning setting assumes that training data and test data come from the same distribution (domain). Domain generalization (DG) methods try to learn a model that when trained on data from multiple domains, would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Udit Maniyar , Joseph K J , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Urun Dogan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

A typical pipeline for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is to integrate the visual features and the class semantic descriptors into a multimodal framework with a linear or bilinear model. However, the visual features and the class semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zhong Ji , Yunxin Sun , Yulong Yu , Jichang Guo , Yanwei Pang

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

Zero-shot cross-domain sequential recommendation (ZCDSR) enables predictions in unseen domains without additional training or fine-tuning, addressing the limitations of traditional models in sparse data environments. Recent advancements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yunzhe Li , Junting Wang , Hari Sundaram , Zhining Liu

It is a recognized fact that the classification accuracy of unseen classes in the setting of Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) is much lower than that of traditional Zero-Shot Leaning (ZSL). One of the reasons is that an instance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xinpeng Li

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Generalized zero-shot semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds aims to classify each point into both seen and unseen classes. A significant challenge with these models is their tendency to make biased predictions, often favoring the classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hyeonseok Kim , Byeongkeun Kang , Yeejin Lee

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 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

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) aims to recognize unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones, guided by semantic information. To this end, existing works have demonstrated remarkable performance by utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Wenjin Hou , Dingjie Fu , Kun Li , Shiming Chen , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

This paper introduces a novel framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL), i.e., to recognize new categories that are unseen during training, by using a multi-model and multi-alignment integration method. Specifically, we propose three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Siqi Yin , Lifan Jiang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is made possible by learning a projection function between a feature space and a semantic space (e.g.,~an attribute space). Key to ZSL is thus to learn a projection that is robust against the often large domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Zhiwu Lu , Jiechao Guan , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , An Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

In this paper, we provide a new neural-network based perspective on multi-task learning (MTL) and multi-domain learning (MDL). By introducing the concept of a semantic descriptor, this framework unifies MDL and MTL as well as encompassing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-27 Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

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