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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects (test classes) given some other seen objects (training classes), by sharing information of attributes between different objects. Attributes are artificially annotated for objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

Recently, zero-shot learning (ZSL) emerged as an exciting topic and attracted a lot of attention. ZSL aims to classify unseen classes by transferring the knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes based on the class description. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Chandan Gautam , Sethupathy Parameswaran , Ashish Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at automatically recognizing the instances from unseen object classes without training data. To address this problem, ZSL is usually carried out in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Xi Li , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei Zhang , Haibin Ling , Fei Wu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to transfer knowledge from seen classes to semantically related unseen classes, which are absent during training. The promising strategies for ZSL are to synthesize visual features of unseen classes conditioned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yun Li , Zhe Liu , Lina Yao , Xiaojun Chang

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

Existing methods using generative adversarial approaches for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aim to generate realistic visual features from class semantics by a single generative network, which is highly under-constrained. As a result, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhi Chen , Jingjing Li , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang , Yang Yang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects using disjoint seen objects via sharing attributes. The generalization performance of ZSL is governed by the attributes, which transfer semantic information from seen classes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

The recent advance in deep generative models outlines a promising perspective in the realm of Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL). Most generative ZSL methods use category semantic attributes plus a Gaussian noise to generate visual features. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xiaojie Zhao , Yuming Shen , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang

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

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) aims to enable image classifiers to recognize images from unseen classes that were not included during training. Unlike traditional supervised classification, ZSL typically relies on learning a mapping from visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhiyuan Peng , Zihan Ye , Shreyank N Gowda , Yuping Yan , Haotian Xu , Ling Shao

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) has been shown to be a promising approach to generalizing a model to categories unseen during training by leveraging class attributes, but challenges still remain. Recently, methods using generative models to combat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Lawrence Carin

This paper presents a method of zero-shot learning (ZSL) which poses ZSL as the missing data problem, rather than the missing label problem. Specifically, most existing ZSL methods focus on learning mapping functions from the image feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Botong Wu , Tianfu Wu , Yizhou Wang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) makes object recognition in images possible in absence of visual training data for a part of the classes from a dataset. When the number of classes is large, classes are usually represented by semantic class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Yannick Le Cacheux , Adrian Popescu , Hervé Le Borgne

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

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to infer novel classes without training samples by transferring knowledge from seen classes. Existing embedding-based approaches for ZSL typically employ attention mechanisms to locate attributes on an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lei Xiang , Yuan Zhou , Haoran Duan , Yang Long

Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) deals with the problem of predicting class labels for target domain instances based on source domain side information (e.g. attributes) of unseen classes. We formulate ZSR as a binary prediction problem. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Ziming Zhang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is to handle the prediction of those unseen classes that have no labeled training data. Recently, generative methods like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are being widely investigated for ZSL due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Yuxia Geng , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhuo Chen , Zhiquan Ye , Zonggang Yuan , Yantao Jia , Huajun Chen

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