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In zero-shot learning (ZSL), generative methods synthesize class-related sample features based on predefined semantic prototypes. They advance the ZSL performance by synthesizing unseen class sample features for better training the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shiming Chen , Wenjin Hou , Ziming Hong , Xiaohan Ding , Yibing Song , Xinge You , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize a set of unseen classes without any training images. The standard approach to ZSL requires a set of training images annotated with seen class labels and a semantic descriptor for seen/unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Nanyi Fei , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

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

Visual cognition of primates is superior to that of artificial neural networks in its ability to 'envision' a visual object, even a newly-introduced one, in different attributes including pose, position, color, texture, etc. To aid neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Yunhao Ge , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Gan Xin , Laurent Itti

Object classes that surround us have a natural tendency to emerge at varying levels of abstraction. We propose a Bayesian approach to zero-shot learning (ZSL) that introduces the notion of meta-classes and implements a Bayesian hierarchy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sarkhan Badirli , Zeynep Akata , Murat Dundar

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 learning (ZSL) aims to recognize the novel classes which cannot be collected for training a prediction model. Accordingly, generative models (e.g., generative adversarial network (GAN)) are typically used to synthesize the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Shiming Chen , Shihuang Chen , Wenjin Hou , Weiping Ding , Xinge You

Lately, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been successfully applied to zero-shot learning (ZSL) and achieved state-of-the-art performance. By synthesizing virtual unseen visual features, GAN-based methods convert the challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jingjing Li , Mengmeng Jing , Ke Lu , Lei Zhu , Yang Yang , Zi 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) algorithms typically work by exploiting attribute correlations to be able to make predictions in unseen classes. However, these correlations do not remain intact at test time in most practical settings and the…

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

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

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) has attracted huge research attention over the past few years; it aims to learn the new concepts that have never been seen before. In classical ZSL algorithms, attributes are introduced as the intermediate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Yanwei Fu , Rui Liang , Jiahong Wu , Yonggang Wang , Yizhou Wang

Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) targets at recognizing unseen categories by leveraging auxiliary information, such as attribute embedding. Despite the encouraging results achieved, prior ZSL approaches focus on improving the discriminant power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Lianbo Zhang , Shaoli Huang , Xinchao Wang , Wei Liu , Dacheng Tao

Most of the existing artificial neural networks(ANNs) fail to learn continually due to catastrophic forgetting, while humans can do the same by maintaining previous tasks' performances. Although storing all the previous data can alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Subhankar Ghosh

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) addresses the unseen class recognition problem by leveraging semantic information to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Generative models synthesize the unseen visual features and convert ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Maunil R Vyas , Hemanth Venkateswara , Sethuraman Panchanathan

Few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promise in vision but remains largely unexplored for \emph{industrial} time-series data, where annotating every new defect is prohibitively expensive. We present a systematic FSL study on screw-fastening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xinyuan Tu