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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) can be defined by correctly solving a task where no training data is available, based on previous acquired knowledge from different, but related tasks. So far, this area has mostly drawn the attention from computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Joao Reis , Gil Gonçalves

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to transfer classification capability from seen to unseen classes. Recent methods have proved that generalization and specialization are two essential abilities to achieve good performance in ZSL. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yun Li , Zhe Liu , Xiaojun Chang , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Learning novel concepts, remembering previous knowledge, and adapting it to future tasks occur simultaneously throughout a human's lifetime. To model such comprehensive abilities, continual zero-shot learning (CZSL) has recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wenxuan Zhang , Paul Janson , Kai Yi , Ivan Skorokhodov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

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

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL), which aims to predict for those classes that have never appeared in the training data, has arisen hot research interests. The key of implementing ZSL is to leverage the prior knowledge of classes which builds the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuxia Geng , Jiaoyan Chen , Zhuo Chen , Jeff Z. Pan , Zhiquan Ye , Zonggang Yuan , Yantao Jia , Huajun Chen

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

This paper introduces and studies zero-base generalized few-shot learning (zero-base GFSL), which is an extreme yet practical version of few-shot learning problem. Motivated by the cases where base data is not available due to privacy or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Seong-Woong Kim , Dong-Wan Choi

This paper presents a simple yet effective method for improving the performance of zero-shot learning (ZSL). ZSL classifies instances of unseen classes, from which no training data is available, by utilizing the attributes of the classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Hiroki Ohashi , Mohammad Al-Naser , Sheraz Ahmed , Katsuyuki Nakamura , Takuto Sato , Andreas Dengel

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize the novel object categories using the semantic representation of categories, and the key idea is to explore the knowledge of how the novel class is semantically related to the familiar classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Ying Shi , Wei Wei , Zhiming Zheng

Zero-shot Learning(ZSL) attains knowledge transfer from seen classes to unseen classes by exploring auxiliary category information, which is a promising yet difficult research topic. In this field, Audio-Visual Generalized Zero-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Xun Zhang , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Recent research on Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) has focused primarily on generation-based methods. However, current literature has overlooked the fundamental principles of these methods and has made limited progress in a complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Dubing Chen , Yuming Shen , Haofeng Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr

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 (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 recognize objects from novel unseen classes without any training data. Recently, structure-transfer based methods are proposed to implement ZSL by transferring structural knowledge from the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Bo Zhao , Xinwei Sun , Yuan Yao , Yizhou Wang

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

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

A modern paradigm for generalization in machine learning and AI consists of pre-training a task-agnostic foundation model, generally obtained using self-supervised and multimodal contrastive learning. The resulting representations can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Ronak Mehta , Zaid Harchaoui

Zero-shot learning transfers knowledge from seen classes to novel unseen classes to reduce human labor of labelling data for building new classifiers. Much effort on zero-shot learning however has focused on the standard multi-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Meng Ye , Yuhong Guo