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Collecting training images for all visual categories is not only expensive but also impractical. Zero-shot learning (ZSL), especially using attributes, offers a pragmatic solution to this problem. However, at test time most attribute-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Ziad Al-Halah , Makarand Tapaswi , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Given semantic descriptions of object classes, zero-shot learning aims to accurately recognize objects of the unseen classes, from which no examples are available at the training stage, by associating them to the seen classes, from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

We propose a novel framework called Semantics-Preserving Adversarial Embedding Network (SP-AEN) for zero-shot visual recognition (ZSL), where test images and their classes are both unseen during training. SP-AEN aims to tackle the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Long Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Wei Liu , Shih-Fu Chang

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Eloi Zablocki , Patrick Bordes , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

Zero-shot learning uses semantic attributes to connect the search space of unseen objects. In recent years, although the deep convolutional network brings powerful visual modeling capabilities to the ZSL task, its visual features have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Yang Hu , Guihua Wen , Adriane Chapman , Pei Yang , Mingnan Luo , Yingxue Xu , Dan Dai , Wendy Hall

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

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) identifies unseen categories by knowledge transferred from the seen domain, relying on the intrinsic interactions between visual and semantic information. Prior works mainly localize regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Man Liu , Feng Li , Chunjie Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Huihui Bai , Yao Zhao

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) has received extensive attention and successes in recent years especially in areas of fine-grained object recognition, retrieval, and image captioning. Key to ZSL is to transfer knowledge from the seen to the unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Xingxing Zhang , Shupeng Gui , Zhenfeng Zhu , Yao Zhao , Ji Liu

Zero-shot recognition aims to accurately recognize objects of unseen classes by using a shared visual-semantic mapping between the image feature space and the semantic embedding space. This mapping is learned on training data of seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yanan Li , Donghui Wang , Huanhang Hu , Yuetan Lin , Yueting Zhuang

Existing generative Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) methods only consider the unidirectional alignment from the class semantics to the visual features while ignoring the alignment from the visual features to the class semantics, which fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , Jichang Guo , Zhongfei Zhang , Fei Wu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) highly depends on a good semantic embedding to connect the seen and unseen classes. Recently, distributed word embeddings (DWE) pre-trained from large text corpus have become a popular choice to draw such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Ruizhi Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

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

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

We present a new embedding-based framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL). Most embedding-based methods aim to learn the correspondence between an image classifier (visual representation) and its class prototype (semantic representation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Mei-Chen Yeh , Fang Li

In Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL), embedding-based methods enable knowledge transfer from seen to unseen classes by learning a visual-semantic mapping from seen-class images to class-level semantic prototypes (e.g., attributes). However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Wang , Shiming Chen , Guo-Sen Xie , Ziming Hong , Chaojian Yu , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is challenging due to the cross-domain nature of sketches and photos, as well as the semantic gap between seen and unseen image distributions. Previous methods fine-tune pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shiyin Dong , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) addresses the unseen class recognition problem by leveraging semantic information to transfer knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Generative models synthesize the unseen visual features and convert ZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Maunil R Vyas , Hemanth Venkateswara , Sethuraman Panchanathan

Zero shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by exploiting semantic relationships between seen and unseen classes. Two major problems faced by ZSL algorithms are the hubness problem and the bias towards the seen classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Akanksha Paul , Narayanan C. Krishnan , Prateek Munjal

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