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The number of categories for action recognition is growing rapidly and it has become increasingly hard to label sufficient training data for learning conventional models for all categories. Instead of collecting ever more data and labelling…

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Zero-shot learning has been actively studied for image classification task to relieve the burden of annotating image labels. Interestingly, semantic segmentation task requires more labor-intensive pixel-wise annotation, but zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangxuan Gu , Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Zihan Zhao , Liqing Zhang

Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation (ZSS) aims to segment categories that are not annotated during training. While fine-tuning vision-language models has achieved promising results, these models often overfit to seen categories due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jialei Chen , Xu Zheng , Dongyue Li , Chong Yi , Seigo Ito , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Hiroshi Murase , Daisuke Deguchi

We propose a novel framework called Semantics-Preserving Adversarial Embedding Network (SP-AEN) for zero-shot visual recognition (ZSL), where test images and their classes are both unseen during training. SP-AEN aims to tackle the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Long Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Wei Liu , Shih-Fu Chang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen image categories by learning an embedding space between image and semantic representations. For years, among existing works, it has been the center task to learn the proper mapping matrices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yan Li , Junge Zhang , Jianguo Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) models rely on learning a joint embedding space where both textual/semantic description of object classes and visual representation of object images can be projected to for nearest neighbour search. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

Deep learning has significantly improved the precision of instance segmentation with abundant labeled data. However, in many areas like medical and manufacturing, collecting sufficient data is extremely hard and labeling this data requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Ye Zheng , Jiahong Wu , Yongqiang Qin , Faen Zhang , Li Cui

Generalised zero-shot learning (GZSL) is a classification problem where the learning stage relies on a set of seen visual classes and the inference stage aims to identify both the seen visual classes and a new set of unseen visual classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rafael Felix , Ben Harwood , Michele Sasdelli , Gustavo Carneiro

Zero-shot recognition aims to accurately recognize objects of unseen classes by using a shared visual-semantic mapping between the image feature space and the semantic embedding space. This mapping is learned on training data of seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yanan Li , Donghui Wang , Huanhang Hu , Yuetan Lin , Yueting Zhuang

We present LSeg, a novel model for language-driven semantic image segmentation. LSeg uses a text encoder to compute embeddings of descriptive input labels (e.g., "grass" or "building") together with a transformer-based image encoder that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Boyi Li , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Serge Belongie , Vladlen Koltun , René Ranftl

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to recognize unseen object classes by only training on seen object classes, has increasingly been of great interest in Machine Learning, and has registered with some successes. Most existing ZSL methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Wen Tang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Camouflaged object segmentation presents unique challenges compared to traditional segmentation tasks, primarily due to the high similarity in patterns and colors between camouflaged objects and their backgrounds. Effective solutions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenqi Guo , Mohamed Shehata , Shan Du

The need to address the scarcity of task-specific annotated data has resulted in concerted efforts in recent years for specific settings such as zero-shot learning (ZSL) and domain generalization (DG), to separately address the issues of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shivam Chandhok , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Semantic segmentation stands as a pivotal research focus in computer vision. In the context of industrial image inspection, conventional semantic segmentation models fail to maintain the segmentation consistency of fixed components across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Guoxuan Mao , Ting Cao , Ziyang Li , Yuan Dong

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

We introduce and tackle the problem of zero-shot object detection (ZSD), which aims to detect object classes which are not observed during training. We work with a challenging set of object classes, not restricting ourselves to similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Ankan Bansal , Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Rama Chellappa , Ajay Divakaran

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 identify unseen classes with zero samples during training. Broadly speaking, present ZSL methods usually adopt class-level semantic labels and compare them with instance-level semantic predictions to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zihan Ye , Guanyu Yang , Xiaobo Jin , Youfa Liu , Kaizhu Huang

Unlike conventional zero-shot classification, zero-shot semantic segmentation predicts a class label at the pixel level instead of the image level. When solving zero-shot semantic segmentation problems, the need for pixel-level prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jiaxin Cheng , Soumyaroop Nandi , Prem Natarajan , Wael Abd-Almageed

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng