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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to predict unseen classes whose samples have never appeared during training. One of the most effective and widely used semantic information for zero-shot image classification are attributes which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhuo Chen , Yufeng Huang , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Wen Zhang , Yin Fang , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen state-object combinations by leveraging known combinations. Existing studies basically rely on the cross-modal alignment capabilities of CLIP but tend to overlook its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yue Wang , Shuai Xu , Xuelin Zhu , Yicong Li

The goal of Open-Vocabulary Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (OV-CZSL) is to recognize attribute-object compositions in the open-vocabulary setting, where compositions of both seen and unseen attributes and objects are evaluated. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yihang Duan , Jiong Wang , Pengpeng Zeng , Ji Zhang , Lei Zhao , Chong Wang , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal capabilities in learning joint representations of visual and textual data, making them powerful tools for tasks such as Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL). CZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kyle Stein , Arash Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to recognize unseen object classes by only training on seen object classes, has increasingly been of great interest in Machine Learning, and has registered with some successes. Most existing ZSL methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Wen Tang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Open-World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (OW-CZSL) aims to recognize new compositions of seen attributes and objects. In OW-CZSL, methods built on the conventional closed-world setting degrade severely due to the unconstrained OW test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yun Li , Zhe Liu , Saurav Jha , Sally Cripps , Lina Yao

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen objects using disjoint seen objects via sharing attributes. The generalization performance of ZSL is governed by the attributes, which transfer semantic information from seen classes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofeng Xu , Ivor W. Tsang , Chuancai Liu

The key challenge of zero-shot learning (ZSL) is how to infer the latent semantic knowledge between visual and attribute features on seen classes, and thus achieving a desirable knowledge transfer to unseen classes. Prior works either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Shiming Chen , Ziming Hong , Guo-Sen Xie , Wenhan Yang , Qinmu Peng , Kai Wang , Jian Zhao , Xinge You

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) has attracted huge research attention over the past few years; it aims to learn the new concepts that have never been seen before. In classical ZSL algorithms, attributes are introduced as the intermediate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Yanwei Fu , Rui Liang , Jiahong Wu , Yonggang Wang , Yizhou Wang

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to classify samples under the assumption that some classes are not observable during training. To bridge the gap between the seen and unseen classes, most GZSL methods attempt to associate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Ruihong Qiu , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Jingjing Li , Zheng Zhang

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

Compositional Zero-shot Learning (CZSL) aims to identify novel compositions via known attribute-object pairs. The primary challenge in CZSL tasks lies in the significant discrepancies introduced by the complex interaction between the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Suyi Li , Chenyi Jiang , Shidong Wang , Yang Long , Zheng Zhang , Haofeng Zhang

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by generalizing the knowledge, i.e., visual and semantic relationships, obtained from seen classes, where image augmentation techniques are commonly applied to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Zhi Chen , Pengfei Zhang , Jingjing Li , Sen Wang , Zi Huang

This paper investigates a challenging problem of zero-shot learning in the multi-label scenario (MLZSL), wherein, the model is trained to recognize multiple unseen classes within a sample (e.g., an image) based on seen classes and auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ziming Liu , Jingcai Guo , Xiaocheng Lu , Song Guo , Peiran Dong , Jiewei Zhang

Human-annotated attributes serve as powerful semantic embeddings in zero-shot learning. However, their annotation process is labor-intensive and needs expert supervision. Current unsupervised semantic embeddings, i.e., word embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize the unseen classes in the open-world guided by the side-information (e.g., attributes). Its key task is how to infer the latent semantic knowledge between visual and attribute features on seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Guo-Sen Xie , Xinge You

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) can be formulated as a cross-domain matching problem: after being projected into a joint embedding space, a visual sample will match against all candidate class-level semantic descriptions and be assigned to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Lei Zhang , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Wei Wei , Yannning Zhang , Anton Van Den Hengel

The recent advance in deep generative models outlines a promising perspective in the realm of Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL). Most generative ZSL methods use category semantic attributes plus a Gaussian noise to generate visual features. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xiaojie Zhao , Yuming Shen , Shidong Wang , Haofeng Zhang