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Being able to segment unseen classes not observed during training is an important technical challenge in deep learning, because of its potential to reduce the expensive annotation required for semantic segmentation. Prior zero-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Giuseppe Pastore , Fabio Cermelli , Yongqin Xian , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo

Zero-shot learning aims to recognize instances of unseen classes, for which no visual instance is available during training, by learning multimodal relations between samples from seen classes and corresponding class semantic…

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) has received increasing attention in recent years especially in areas of fine-grained object recognition, retrieval, and image captioning. The key to ZSL is to transfer knowledge from the seen to the unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhizhe Liu , Xingxing Zhang , Zhenfeng Zhu , Shuai Zheng , Yao Zhao , Jian Cheng

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to classify objects that are not observed or seen during training. It relies on class semantic description to transfer knowledge from the seen classes to the unseen classes. Existing methods of obtaining class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fahimul Hoque Shubho , Townim Faisal Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) and Open-Set Recognition (OSR) are two mainstream settings that greatly extend conventional visual object recognition. However, the limitations of their problem settings are not negligible. The novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zhaonan Li , Hongfu Liu

The CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM) are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, whereas CLIP is renowned for its zero-shot recognition capabilities. This paper presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haobo Yuan , Xiangtai Li , Chong Zhou , Yining Li , Kai Chen , Chen Change Loy

Low-light images challenge both human perceptions and computer vision algorithms. It is crucial to make algorithms robust to enlighten low-light images for computational photography and computer vision applications such as real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shen Zheng , Gaurav Gupta

Accurate annotation of cutaneous neoplasm biopsies represents a major challenge due to their wide morphological variability, overlapping histological patterns, and the subtle distinctions between benign and malignant lesions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Santiago Moreno , Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

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

Generalized zero-shot semantic segmentation (GZS3) aims to achieve the human-level capability of segmenting not only seen classes but also novel class regions unseen in the training data through introducing the bridge of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaoqing Guo , Wuyang Li , Yixuan Yuan

Treating texts as images, combining prompts with textual labels for prompt tuning, and leveraging the alignment properties of CLIP have been successfully applied in zero-shot multi-label image recognition. Nonetheless, relying solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haonan Xu , Dian Chao , Xiangyu Wu , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

The continual learning setting aims to learn new tasks over time without forgetting the previous ones. The literature reports several significant efforts to tackle this problem with limited or no access to previous task data. Among such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Vishal Thengane , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Khan

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) recognizes the unseen classes by conducting visual-semantic interactions to transfer semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones, supported by semantic information (e.g., attributes). However, existing ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shiming Chen , Wenjin Hou , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Zero shot learning (ZSL) has seen a surge in interest over the decade for its tight links with the mechanism making young children recognize novel objects. Although different paradigms of visual semantic embedding models are designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yue Jiao , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes without visual instances. However, existing methods usually assume clean labels, overlooking real-world label noise and ambiguity, which degrades performance. To bridge this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiangnan Li , Linqing Huang , Xiaowen Yan , Min Gan , Wenpeng Lu , Jinfu Fan