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Self-supervised models trained with a contrastive loss such as CLIP have shown to be very powerful in zero-shot classification settings. However, to be used as a zero-shot classifier these models require the user to provide new captions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Bhawesh Kumar , Anil Palepu , Rudraksh Tuwani , Andrew Beam

Classification based on Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) is the ability of a model to classify inputs into novel classes on which the model has not previously seen any training examples. Providing an auxiliary descriptor in the form of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Samuele Ruffino , Geethan Karunaratne , Michael Hersche , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

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

The recent growth of large foundation models that can easily generate pseudo-labels for huge quantity of unlabeled data makes unsupervised Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Image Retrieval (UZS-CDIR) less relevant. In this paper, we therefore turn our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chor Boon Tan , Conghui Hu , Gim Hee Lee

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

Multi-modal contrastive models such as CLIP achieve state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot classification by embedding input images and texts on a joint representational space. Recently, a modality gap has been reported in two-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Abrar Fahim , Alex Murphy , Alona Fyshe

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 anomaly detection (ZSAD) targets the identification of anomalies within images from arbitrary novel categories. This study introduces AdaCLIP for the ZSAD task, leveraging a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM), CLIP. AdaCLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yunkang Cao , Jiangning Zhang , Luca Frittoli , Yuqi Cheng , Weiming Shen , Giacomo Boracchi

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

In semantic segmentation, the creation of pixel-level labels for training data incurs significant costs. To address this problem, semi-supervised learning, which utilizes a small number of labeled images alongside unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Takahiro Mano , Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta

Zero-shot learning is a learning regime that recognizes unseen classes by generalizing the visual-semantic relationship learned from the seen classes. To obtain an effective ZSL model, one may resort to curating training samples from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Sen Wang , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an important building block in trustworthy image recognition systems as unknown classes may arise at test-time. OOD detection methods typically revolve around a single classifier, leading to a split in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux , Gianni Franchi , Sergio Escalera , Thomas B. Moeslund

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu

We study the impact of using rich and diverse textual descriptions of classes for zero-shot learning (ZSL) on ImageNet. We create a new dataset ImageNet-Wiki that matches each ImageNet class to its corresponding Wikipedia article. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Sebastian Bujwid , Josephine Sullivan

Collecting training images for all visual categories is not only expensive but also impractical. Zero-shot learning (ZSL), especially using attributes, offers a pragmatic solution to this problem. However, at test time most attribute-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Ziad Al-Halah , Makarand Tapaswi , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Zero-shot learning aims to classify visual objects without any training data via knowledge transfer between seen and unseen classes. This is typically achieved by exploring a semantic embedding space where the seen and unseen classes can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zhen-Yong Fu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong

In Computer Vision, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unseen classes -- classes for which no matching training image exists. Most of ZSL works learn a cross-modal mapping between images and class labels for seen classes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Patrick Bordes , Eloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Patrick Gallinari

Semantic segmentation, which aims to acquire a detailed understanding of images, is an essential issue in computer vision. However, in practical scenarios, new categories that are different from the categories in training usually appear.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Haiyang Liu , Yichen Wang , Jiayi Zhao , Guowu Yang , Fengmao Lv

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

Semantic boundary and edge detection aims at simultaneously detecting object edge pixels in images and assigning class labels to them. Systematic training of predictors for this task requires the labeling of edges in images which is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jing Yu Koh , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexander Binder