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Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods typically synthesize visual features for unseen classes using predefined semantic attributes, followed by training a fully supervised classification model. While effective, these methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Md Shakil Ahamed Shohag , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Farhad Pourpanah

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

Zero-shot object detection (ZSD), the task that extends conventional detection models to detecting objects from unseen categories, has emerged as a new challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches tackle the ZSD task with a strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Caixia Yan , Xiaojun Chang , Minnan Luo , Huan Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes with zero samples by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes. Current approaches typically correlate global visual features with semantic information (i.e., attributes) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ning Wang , Long Yu , Cong Hua , Guangming Zhu , Lin Mei , Syed Afaq Ali Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun , Liang Zhang

Architectures based on siamese networks with triplet loss have shown outstanding performance on the image-based similarity search problem. This approach attempts to discriminate between positive (relevant) and negative (irrelevant) items.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Anibal Fuentes , Jose M. Saavedra

Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been limited to that of image retrieval. In this paper, for the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Subhadeep Koley , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

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

Robust object recognition systems usually rely on powerful feature extraction mechanisms from a large number of real images. However, in many realistic applications, collecting sufficient images for ever-growing new classes is unattainable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Yang Long , Li Liu , Ling Shao , Fumin Shen , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve the target image with a multimodal query, i.e., a reference image, and its complementary modification text. As previous supervised or zero-shot learning paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Bohan Hou , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Meng Liu , Mingzhu Xu , Xuemeng Song

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Mohamed Elfeki

In this paper, we propose a Distributed Zero-Shot Learning (DistZSL) framework that can fully exploit decentralized data to learn an effective model for unseen classes. Considering the data heterogeneity issues across distributed nodes, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang , Jingjing Li , Sen Wang , Xin Yu

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) aims to enable classifiers to identify unseen classes. This is typically achieved by generating visual features for unseen classes based on learned visual-semantic correlations from seen classes. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N. Gowda , Xiaowei Huang , Haotian Xu , Yaochu Jin , Kaizhu Huang , Xiaobo Jin

We present a new embedding-based framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL). Most embedding-based methods aim to learn the correspondence between an image classifier (visual representation) and its class prototype (semantic representation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Mei-Chen Yeh , Fang Li

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

We propose a zero-shot learning relation classification (ZSLRC) framework that improves on state-of-the-art by its ability to recognize novel relations that were not present in training data. The zero-shot learning approach mimics the way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Jiaying Gong , Hoda Eldardiry

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve a target image from a query composed of a reference image and modification text. Recent training-free zero-shot methods often employ Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yi Sun , Jinyu Xu , Qing Xie , Jiachen Li , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu

In some specific scenarios, face sketch was used to identify a person. However, drawing a complete face sketch often needs skills and takes time, which hinder its widespread applicability in the practice. In this study, we proposed a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dawei Dai , Yutang Li , Liang Wang , Shiyu Fu , Shuyin Xia , Guoyin Wang

This paper proposes a novel Zero-Shot Action Recognition~(ZSAR) method based on contrastive learning. In ZSAR, we aim to classify examples from classes that were missing during training. Two well-known problems remain in ZSAR: the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables solving a task without the need to see its examples. In this paper, we propose two ZSL frameworks that learn to synthesize parameters for novel unseen classes. First, we propose to cast the problem of ZSL as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha