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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing unseen class examples (e.g., images) with knowledge transferred from seen classes. This is typically achieved by exploiting a semantic feature space shared by both seen and unseen classes, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jingcai Guo

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

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

In most recent years, zero-shot recognition (ZSR) has gained increasing attention in machine learning and image processing fields. It aims at recognizing unseen class instances with knowledge transferred from seen classes. This is typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo

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

By describing the features and abstractions of our world, language is a crucial tool for human learning and a promising source of supervision for machine learning models. We use language to improve few-shot visual classification in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jesse Mu , Percy Liang , Noah Goodman

In some of object recognition problems, labeled data may not be available for all categories. Zero-shot learning utilizes auxiliary information (also called signatures) describing each category in order to find a classifier that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Seyed Mohsen Shojaee , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) presents the challenge of identifying categories not seen during training. This task is crucial in domains where it is costly, prohibited, or simply not feasible to collect training data. ZSL depends on a mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 William Heyden , Habib Ullah , M. Salman Siddiqui , Fadi Al Machot

Generalised zero-shot learning (GZSL) methods aim to classify previously seen and unseen visual classes by leveraging the semantic information of those classes. In the context of GZSL, semantic information is non-visual data such as a text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rafael Felix , Ben Harwood , Michele Sasdelli , Gustavo Carneiro

We propose a novel approach for unsupervised zero-shot learning (ZSL) of classes based on their names. Most existing unsupervised ZSL methods aim to learn a model for directly comparing image features and class names. However, this proves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is a classification task where we do not have even a single training labeled example from a set of unseen classes. Instead, we only have prior information (or description) about seen and unseen classes, often in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shabnam Daghaghi , Tharun Medini , Anshumali Shrivastava

This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Recently, zero-shot learning (ZSL) emerged as an exciting topic and attracted a lot of attention. ZSL aims to classify unseen classes by transferring the knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes based on the class description. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Chandan Gautam , Sethupathy Parameswaran , Ashish Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to train a model for classifying data samples under the condition that some output classes are unknown during supervised learning. To address this challenging task, GZSL leverages semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Farhad Pourpanah , Moloud Abdar , Yuxuan Luo , Xinlei Zhou , Ran Wang , Chee Peng Lim , Xi-Zhao Wang , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

Zero-shot learning (ZL) is crucial for tasks involving unseen categories, such as natural language processing, image classification, and cross-lingual transfer.Current applications often fail to accurately infer and handle new relations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bingchen Liu , Jingchen Li , Yuanyuan Fang , Xin Li

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

Zero-shot learning strives to classify unseen categories for which no data is available during training. In the generalized variant, the test samples can further belong to seen or unseen categories. The state-of-the-art relies on Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sanath Narayan , Akshita Gupta , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Cees G. M. Snoek , Ling Shao

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to classify a test instance from an unseen category based on the training instances from seen categories, in which the gap between seen categories and unseen categories is generally bridged via visual-semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Li Niu , Jianfei Cai , Ashok Veeraraghavan

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