English
Related papers

Related papers: A Multi-class Approach -- Building a Visual Classi…

200 papers

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a popular research problem that aims at predicting for those classes that have never appeared in the training stage by utilizing the inter-class relationship with some side information. In this study, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jiaoyan Chen , Freddy Lecue , Yuxia Geng , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims at predicting classes that have never appeared during the training using external knowledge (a.k.a. side information) has been widely investigated. In this paper we present a literature review towards ZSL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Zhuo Chen , Ian Horrocks , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

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) is one of the most extreme forms of learning from scarce labeled data. It enables predicting that images belong to classes for which no labeled training instances are available. In this paper, we present a new ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Colin Samplawski , Heesung Kwon , Erik Learned-Miller , Benjamin M. Marlin

Zero-shot action recognition is the task of recognizingaction classes without visual examples, only with a seman-tic embedding which relates unseen to seen classes. Theproblem can be seen as learning a function which general-izes well to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shreyank N Gowda , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Frank Keller , Marcus Rohrbach

Vision-Language Models like CLIP create aligned embedding spaces for text and images, making it possible for anyone to build a visual classifier by simply naming the classes they want to distinguish. However, a model that works well in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kevin Robbins , Xiaotong Liu , Yu Wu , Le Sun , Grady McPeak , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging problem that aims to recognize the target categories without seen data, where semantic information is leveraged to transfer knowledge from some source classes. Although ZSL has made great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a challenging research area in computer vision. To tackle the annotation bottleneck in SLR, we formulate the problem of Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition (ZS-SLR) and propose a two-stream model from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

Continual learning (CL) can help pre-trained vision-language models efficiently adapt to new or under-trained data distributions without re-training. Nevertheless, during the continual training of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Zangwei Zheng , Mingyuan Ma , Kai Wang , Ziheng Qin , Xiangyu Yue , Yang You

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

Existing generative Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods only consider the unidirectional alignment from the class semantics to the visual features while ignoring the alignment from the visual features to the class semantics, which fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei Zhang , Fei Wu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at understanding unseen categories with no training examples from class-level descriptions. To improve the discriminative power of ZSL, we model the visual learning process of unseen categories with inspiration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Kai Yi , Mohamed Elfeki

Multi-modal learning has become increasingly popular due to its ability to leverage information from different data sources (e.g., text and images) to improve the model performance. Recently, CLIP has emerged as an effective approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zixiang Chen , Yihe Deng , Yuanzhi Li , Quanquan Gu

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Low-shot learning indicates the ability to recognize unseen objects based on very limited labeled training samples, which simulates human visual intelligence. According to this concept, we propose a multi-level similarity model (MLSM) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Hongwei Xv , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Shu Zhang , Qiong Li

We present a cross-modal Transformer-based framework, which jointly encodes video data and text labels for zero-shot action recognition (ZSAR). Our model employs a conceptually new pipeline by which visual representations are learned in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chung-Ching Lin , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

Transfer Learning (TL) aims to transfer knowledge acquired in one problem, the source problem, onto another problem, the target problem, dispensing with the bottom-up construction of the target model. Due to its relevance, TL has gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Ricardo Gamelas Sousa , Luís A. Alexandre , Jorge M. Santos , Luís M. Silva , Joaquim Marques de Sá