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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

3D object pose estimation is a challenging task. Previous works always require thousands of object images with annotated poses for learning the 3D pose correspondence, which is laborious and time-consuming for labeling. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Fengrui Tian , Yaoyao Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Yueqi Duan , Shaoyi Du , Alan Yuille , Angtian Wang

We present a network architecture which compares RGB images and untextured 3D models by the similarity of the represented shape. Our system is optimised for zero-shot retrieval, meaning it can recognise shapes never shown in training. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Maciej Janik , Niklas Gard , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Deep-learning and large scale language-image training have produced image object detectors that generalise well to diverse environments and semantic classes. However, single-image object detectors trained on internet data are not optimally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Chris Lehnert

Knowledge of 3-D object shape is of great importance to robot manipulation tasks, but may not be readily available in unstructured environments. While vision is often occluded during robot-object interaction, high-resolution tactile sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sudharshan Suresh , Zilin Si , Joshua G. Mangelson , Wenzhen Yuan , Michael Kaess

Object detection and recognition are important problems in computer vision. Since these problems are meta-heuristic, despite a lot of research, practically usable, intelligent, real-time, and dynamic object detection/recognition methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Dilip K. Prasad

Interpreting object-referential language and grounding objects in 3D with spatial relations and attributes is essential for robots operating alongside humans. However, this task is often challenging due to the diversity of scenes, large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Nader Zantout , Haochen Zhang , Pujith Kachana , Jinkai Qiu , Guofei Chen , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang

Despite the advances made in visual object recognition, state-of-the-art deep learning models struggle to effectively recognize novel objects in a few-shot setting where only a limited number of examples are provided. Unlike humans who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Sarthak Bhagat , Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Katia Sycara

Material understanding is critical for design, geometric modeling, and analysis of functional objects. We enable material-aware 3D shape analysis by employing a projective convolutional neural network architecture to learn material- aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Hubert Lin , Melinos Averkiou , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Balazs Kovacs , Siddhant Ranade , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Kavita Bala

Both humans and deep learning models can recognize objects from 3D shapes depicted with sparse visual information, such as a set of points randomly sampled from the surfaces of 3D objects (termed a point cloud). Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shuhao Fu , Philip J. Kellman , Hongjing Lu

Deep learning has revolutionized object detection thanks to large-scale datasets, but their object categories are still arguably very limited. In this paper, we attempt to enrich such categories by addressing the one-shot object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Xiang Li , Lin Zhang , Yau Pun Chen , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

Majority of the current dimensionality reduction or retrieval techniques rely on embedding the learned feature representations onto a computable metric space. Once the learned features are mapped, a distance metric aids the bridging of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Shah Nawaz , Alessandro Calefati , Ignazio Gallo

Most of the existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods focus on learning a compatibility function between the image representation and class attributes. Few others concentrate on learning image representation combining local and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Faisal Alamri , Anjan Dutta

Actions as simple as grasping an object or navigating around it require a rich understanding of that object's 3D shape from a given viewpoint. In this paper we repurpose powerful learning machinery, originally developed for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Shubham Tulsiani , Abhishek Kar , Qixing Huang , João Carreira , Jitendra Malik

Few-shot learning has recently emerged as a new challenge in the deep learning field: unlike conventional methods that train the deep neural networks (DNNs) with a large number of labeled data, it asks for the generalization of DNNs on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yukuan Yang , Fangyun Wei , Miaojing Shi , Guoqi Li

Deep Learning shows very good performance when trained on large labeled data sets. The problem of training a deep net on a few or one sample per class requires a different learning approach which can generalize to unseen classes using only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Jinchao Liu , Stuart J. Gibson , Margarita Osadchy

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize classes that do not have samples in the training set. One representative solution is to directly learn an embedding function associating visual features with corresponding class semantics for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yu Du , Miaojing Shi , Fangyun Wei , Guoqi Li

Object pose estimation, crucial in computer vision and robotics applications, faces challenges with the diversity of unseen categories. We propose a zero-shot method to achieve category-level 6-DOF object pose estimation, which exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Wentian Qu , Chenyu Meng , Heng Li , Jian Cheng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang , Xiao Zhou , Xiaoming Deng , Ping Tan

Object-centric learning aims to decompose an input image into a set of meaningful object files (slots). These latent object representations enable a variety of downstream tasks. Yet, object-centric learning struggles on real-world datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth