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Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), detecting specific classes of objects using only their linguistic descriptions (e.g., class names) without any image samples, has garnered significant attention. However, in real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) promises to scale visual recognition by bypassing the conventional model training requirement of annotated examples for every category. This is achieved by establishing a mapping connecting low-level features and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xun Xu , Timothy M. Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

Zero-shot human-object interaction (HOI) detection remains a challenging task, particularly in generalizing to unseen actions. Existing methods address this challenge by tapping Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to access knowledge beyond the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qinqian Lei , Bo Wang , Robby T. Tan

Few-shot object counting aims to count the number of objects in a query image that belong to the same class as the given exemplar images. Existing methods compute the similarity between the query image and exemplars in the 2D spatial domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuanwu Xu , Feifan Song , Haofeng Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize novel classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Since semantic knowledge is built on attributes shared between different classes, which are highly local,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yang Liu , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Yifei Huang , Lin Gu , Jun Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

The zero-shot performance of existing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP is limited by the availability of large-scale, aligned image and text datasets in specific domains. In this work, we leverage two complementary sources of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Oindrila Saha , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) aims to identify and localize anomalous regions in images of unseen object classes. While recent methods based on vision-language models like CLIP show promise, their performance is constrained by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuheng Shao , Lizhang Wang , Changhao Li , Peixian Chen , Qinyuan Liu

Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Soroush Seifi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Fabien Despinoy , Rahaf Aljundi

Object pose estimation is an important component of most vision pipelines for embodied agents, as well as in 3D vision more generally. In this paper we tackle the problem of estimating the pose of novel object categories in a zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Walter Goodwin , Sagar Vaze , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

Object counting has achieved remarkable success on visible instances, yet state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods fail under occlusion. This failure stems from a fundamental architectural limitation where backbone networks encode occluding surfaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Safaeid Hossain Arib , Rabeya Akter , Abdul Monaf Chowdhury , Md Jubair Ahmed Sourov , Md Mehedi Hasan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , Zak Murez , Yuri Owekcho , Eric Eaton , Kuyngnam Kim

Deep neural networks have achieved promising progress in remote sensing (RS) image classification, for which the training process requires abundant samples for each class. However, it is time-consuming and unrealistic to annotate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Mugen Peng , Yirong Wu

Vision-language modeling has enabled open-vocabulary tasks where predictions can be queried using any text prompt in a zero-shot manner. Existing open-vocabulary tasks focus on object classes, whereas research on object attributes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 María A. Bravo , Sudhanshu Mittal , Simon Ging , Thomas Brox

Hashing algorithms have been widely used in large-scale image retrieval tasks, especially for seen class data. Zero-shot hashing algorithms have been proposed to handle unseen class data. The key technique in these algorithms involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yan Jiang , Zhongmiao Qi , Jianhao Li , Jiangbo Qian , Chong Wang , Yu Xin

Visual object tracking (VOT) is an essential component for many applications, such as autonomous driving or assistive robotics. However, recent works tend to develop accurate systems based on more computationally expensive feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jianren Wang , Yihui He

Current multi-object tracking (MOT) algorithms typically overlook issues inherent in low-quality videos, leading to significant degradation in tracking performance when confronted with real-world image deterioration. Therefore, advancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jun Du , Weiwei Xing , Ming Li , Fei Richard Yu

This work focuses on multi-shot semi-supervised video object segmentation (MVOS), which aims at segmenting the target object indicated by an initial mask throughout a video with multiple shots. The existing VOS methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hengrui Hu , Kaining Ying , Henghui Ding

Few-shot detection-based counters estimate the number of instances in the image specified only by a few test-time exemplars. A common approach to localize objects across multiple sizes is to merge backbone features of different resolutions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jer Pelhan , Alan Lukezic , Matej Kristan

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on vision-language reasoning tasks. However, their potential for zero-shot fine-grained image classification, a challenging task requiring precise differentiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Md. Atabuzzaman , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas