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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is commonly used to address the very pervasive problem of predicting unseen classes in fine-grained image classification and other tasks. One family of solutions is to learn synthesised unseen visual samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhi Chen , Sen Wang , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from seen state-object pairs to novel unseen pairs. In this process, visual bias caused by the diverse interrelationship of state-object combinations blurs their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Chenyi Jiang , Haofeng Zhang

Most existing Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods have the strong bias problem, in which instances of unseen (target) classes tend to be categorized as one of the seen (source) classes. So they yield poor performance after being deployed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Yezhou Yang , Yang Liu , Mingli Song

Generalized zero-shot semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds aims to classify each point into both seen and unseen classes. A significant challenge with these models is their tendency to make biased predictions, often favoring the classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Hyeonseok Kim , Byeongkeun Kang , Yeejin Lee

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

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) is a critical task in computer vision that enables models to recognize unseen combinations of known attributes and objects during inference, addressing the combinatorial challenge of requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ans Munir , Faisal Z. Qureshi , Mohsen Ali , Muhammad Haris Khan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Xun Xu , Timothy Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

Recent advances in zero-shot learning (ZSL) have demonstrated the potential of generative models. Typically, generative ZSL synthesizes visual features conditioned on semantic prototypes to model the data distribution of unseen classes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wenjin Hou , Xiaoxiao Sun , Hehe Fan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes based on the knowledge of seen classes. Previous methods focused on learning direct embeddings from global features to the semantic space in hope of knowledge transfer from seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ziyang Wang , Yunhao Gou , Jingjing Li , Yu Zhang , Yang Yang

This paper addresses the task of learning an image clas-sifier when some categories are defined by semantic descriptions only (e.g. visual attributes) while the others are defined by exemplar images as well. This task is often referred to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

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) has received extensive attention and successes in recent years especially in areas of fine-grained object recognition, retrieval, and image captioning. Key to ZSL is to transfer knowledge from the seen to the unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Xingxing Zhang , Shupeng Gui , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao , Ji Liu

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

We present a generative framework for generalized zero-shot learning where the training and test classes are not necessarily disjoint. Built upon a variational autoencoder based architecture, consisting of a probabilistic encoder and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Vinay Kumar Verma , Gundeep Arora , Ashish Mishra , Piyush Rai

Multi-label zero-shot learning strives to classify images into multiple unseen categories for which no data is available during training. The test samples can additionally contain seen categories in the generalized variant. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Akshita Gupta , Sanath Narayan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Joost van de Weijer

In zero-shot learning (ZSL), conditional generators have been widely used to generate additional training features. These features can then be used to train the classifiers for testing data. However, some testing data are considered "hard"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jingyi Xu , Zhixin Shu , Dimitris Samaras

Zero-shot learning, the task of learning to recognize new classes not seen during training, has received considerable attention in the case of 2D image classification. However despite the increasing ubiquity of 3D sensors, the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , Dylan Campbell , Lars Petersson

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by leveraging semantic information from seen classes, but most existing methods assume accurate class labels for training instances. However, in real-world scenarios, noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinfu Fan , Jiangnan Li , Xiaowen Yan , Xiaohui Zhong , Wenpeng Lu , Linqing Huang

Zero-shot learning, which studies the problem of object classification for categories for which we have no training examples, is gaining increasing attention from community. Most existing ZSL methods exploit deterministic transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yanan Li , Donghui Wang

Generative Zero-shot learning (ZSL) learns a generator to synthesize visual samples for unseen classes, which is an effective way to advance ZSL. However, existing generative methods rely on the conditions of Gaussian noise and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Wenjin Hou , Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Ziming Hong , Yan Wang , Xuetao Feng , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Xinge You