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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing classes for which no visual sample is available at training time. To address this issue, one can rely on a semantic description of each class. A typical ZSL model learns a mapping between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Celina Hanouti , Hervé Le Borgne

Zero Shot Learning (ZSL) enables a learning model to classify instances of an unseen class during training. While most research in ZSL focuses on single-label classification, few studies have been done in multi-label ZSL, where an instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Ubai Sandouk , Ke Chen

Zero-Shot learning has been shown to be an efficient strategy for domain adaptation. In this context, this paper builds on the recent work of Bucher et al. [1], which proposed an approach to solve Zero-Shot classification problems (ZSC) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging task aiming at recognizing novel classes without any training instances. In this paper we present a simple but high-performance ZSL approach by generating pseudo feature representations (GPFR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jiang Lu , Jin Li , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

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

In Zero-shot learning (ZSL), we classify unseen categories using textual descriptions about their expected appearance when observed (class embeddings) and a disjoint pool of seen classes, for which annotated visual data are accessible. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jacopo Cavazza

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot learning (ZSL) by leveraging large-scale visual-text pair datasets. However, these methods often lack interpretability, as they compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiming Chen , Bowen Duan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Generalized zero shot learning (GZSL) is defined by a training process containing a set of visual samples from seen classes and a set of semantic samples from seen and unseen classes, while the testing process consists of the classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Rafael Felix , Michele Sasdelli , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

Large language models (LLMs) have been effectively used for many computer vision tasks, including image classification. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach for zero-shot image classification using multimodal LLMs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Mahmoud Afifi , Alec Go

In Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL), unseen categories (for which no visual data are available at training time) can be predicted by leveraging their class embeddings (e.g., a list of attributes describing them) together with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Marmoreo , Julio Ivan Davila Carrazco , Vittorio Murino , Jacopo Cavazza

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

Compared to conventional zero-shot learning (ZSL) where recognising unseen classes is the primary or only aim, the goal of generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) is to recognise both seen and unseen classes. Most GZSL methods typically learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Zhi Chen , Zi Huang , Jingjing Li , Zheng Zhang

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

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

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by generalizing the relation between visual features and semantic attributes learned from the seen classes. A recent paradigm called transductive zero-shot learning further leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhengbo Wang , Jian Liang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) is the problem of learning a classifier where some classes have samples and others are learned from side information, like semantic attributes or text description, in a zero-shot learning fashion (ZSL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik