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Zero-shot object counting aims to count instances of arbitrary object categories specified by text descriptions. Existing methods typically rely on vision-language models like CLIP, but often exhibit limited sensitivity to text prompts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yifei Qian , Zhongliang Guo , Bowen Deng , Chun Tong Lei , Shuai Zhao , Chun Pong Lau , Xiaopeng Hong , Michael P. Pound

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited exceptional proficiency in generating visual media of outstanding quality and realism. Nonetheless, their potential in non-generative domains, such as face recognition, has yet to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Bowen Sun , Shibao Zheng

While methods for monocular depth estimation have made significant strides on standard benchmarks, zero-shot metric depth estimation remains unsolved. Challenges include the joint modeling of indoor and outdoor scenes, which often exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Saurabh Saxena , Junhwa Hur , Charles Herrmann , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) for image classification focuses on recognizing novel categories that have no labeled data available for training. The learning is generally carried out with the help of mid-level semantic descriptors associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Debasmit Das , C. S. George Lee

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects from unseen classes, where the kernel problem is to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes by establishing appropriate mappings between visual and semantic features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Bo Liu , Qiulei Dong , Zhanyi Hu

Expanding multimodal representations to novel modalities is constrained by reliance on large-scale paired datasets (e.g., text-image, text-audio, text-3D, text-molecule), which are costly and often infeasible in domains requiring expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Soyeon Hong , Jinchan Kim , Jaegook You , Seungtaek Choi , Suha Kwak , Hyunsouk Cho

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

Multi-modal stance detection (MSD) aims to determine an author's stance toward a given target using both textual and visual content. While recent methods leverage multi-modal fusion and prompt-based learning, most fail to distinguish…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhiyu Xie , Fuqiang Niu , Genan Dai , Qianlong Wang , Li Dong , Bowen Zhang , Hu Huang

Using generative models to synthesize visual features from semantic distribution is one of the most popular solutions to ZSL image classification in recent years. The triplet loss (TL) is popularly used to generate realistic visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zihan Ye , Fuyuan Hu , Fan Lyu , Linyan Li , Kaizhu Huang

Few-shot image classification remains a critical challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in data-scarce environments. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained visual-language models, such as CLIP. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xi Yang , Pai Peng , Wulin Xie , Xiaohuan Lu , Jie Wen

Text-guided motion synthesis aims to generate 3D human motion that not only precisely reflects the textual description but reveals the motion details as much as possible. Pioneering methods explore the diffusion model for text-to-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhenyu Xie , Yang Wu , Xuehao Gao , Zhongqian Sun , Wei Yang , Xiaodan Liang

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models is crucial for mitigating harmful content, yet existing methods often compromise generative quality. We introduce Semantic Surgery, a novel training-free, zero-shot framework for concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lexiang Xiong , Chengyu Liu , Jingwen Ye , Yan Liu , Yuecong Xu

This paper tackles the Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR) problem from the viewpoint of cross-modality metric learning. This task has two characteristics: 1) the zero-shot setting requires a metric space with good within-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Zongheng Huang , YiFan Sun , Chuchu Han , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Zero-Shot image Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) aims to detect and localise anomalies without access to any normal training samples of the target data. While recent ZSAD approaches leverage additional modalities such as language to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

Zero-shot cross-domain sequential recommendation (ZCDSR) enables predictions in unseen domains without additional training or fine-tuning, addressing the limitations of traditional models in sparse data environments. Recent advancements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yunzhe Li , Junting Wang , Hari Sundaram , Zhining Liu

Generative Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods synthesize class-related features based on predefined class semantic prototypes, showcasing superior performance. However, this feature generation paradigm falls short of providing interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Dingjie Fu , Wenjin Hou , Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Xinge You , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recent work on action recognition leverages 3D features and textual information to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, most of the current few-shot action recognition methods still rely on 2D frame-level representations, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yutao Tang , Benjamin Bejar , Rene Vidal

Skeleton-based Temporal Action Segmentation (STAS) aims to segment and recognize various actions from long, untrimmed sequences of human skeletal movements. Current STAS methods typically employ spatio-temporal modeling to establish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Haoyu Ji , Bowen Chen , Weihong Ren , Wenze Huang , Zhihao Yang , Zhiyong Wang , Honghai Liu

The goal of this paper is to extract the visual-language correspondence from a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model, in the form of segmentation map, i.e., simultaneously generating images and segmentation masks for the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ziyi Li , Qinye Zhou , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie