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Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) aims to enable classifiers to identify unseen classes. This is typically achieved by generating visual features for unseen classes based on learned visual-semantic correlations from seen classes. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Zihan Ye , Shreyank N. Gowda , Xiaowei Huang , Haotian Xu , Yaochu Jin , Kaizhu Huang , Xiaobo Jin

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims at predicting classes that have never appeared during the training using external knowledge (a.k.a. side information) has been widely investigated. In this paper we present a literature review towards ZSL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaoyan Chen , Yuxia Geng , Zhuo Chen , Ian Horrocks , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

Zero-Shot Action Recognition (ZSAR) aims to recognize video actions that have never been seen during training. Most existing methods assume a shared semantic space between seen and unseen actions and intend to directly learn a mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Zhiyi Gao , Yonghong Hou , Wanqing Li , Zihui Guo , Bin Yu

Insufficient or even unavailable training data of emerging classes is a big challenge of many classification tasks, including text classification. Recognising text documents of classes that have never been seen in the learning stage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Jingqing Zhang , Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn , Yike Guo

Large scale vision and language models can achieve impressive zero-shot recognition performance by mapping class specific text queries to image content. Two distinct challenges that remain however, are high sensitivity to the choice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sarah Parisot , Yongxin Yang , Steven McDonagh

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

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) refers to recognizing unseen compositions of known visual primitives, which is an essential ability for artificial intelligence systems to learn and understand the world. While considerable progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Siteng Huang , Qiyao Wei , Donglin Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

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 Learners are models capable of predicting unseen classes. In this work, we propose a Zero-shot Learning approach for text categorization. Our method involves training model on a large corpus of sentences to learn the relationship…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Pushpankar Kumar Pushp , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

Learning novel concepts, remembering previous knowledge, and adapting it to future tasks occur simultaneously throughout a human's lifetime. To model such comprehensive abilities, continual zero-shot learning (CZSL) has recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wenxuan Zhang , Paul Janson , Kai Yi , Ivan Skorokhodov , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Generalised zero-shot learning (GZSL) methods aim to classify previously seen and unseen visual classes by leveraging the semantic information of those classes. In the context of GZSL, semantic information is non-visual data such as a text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rafael Felix , Ben Harwood , Michele Sasdelli , Gustavo Carneiro

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) tackles the novel class recognition problem by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones. Existing attention-based models have struggled to learn inferior region features in a single image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shiming Chen , Ziming Hong , Wenjin Hou , Guo-Sen Xie , Yibing Song , Jian Zhao , Xinge You , Shuicheng Yan , Ling Shao

Remarkable progress in zero-shot learning (ZSL) has been achieved using generative models. However, existing generative ZSL methods merely generate (imagine) the visual features from scratch guided by the strong class semantic vectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shiming Chen , Dingjie Fu , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) can be defined by correctly solving a task where no training data is available, based on previous acquired knowledge from different, but related tasks. So far, this area has mostly drawn the attention from computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Joao Reis , Gil Gonçalves

Domain-specific knowledge can significantly contribute to addressing a wide variety of vision tasks. However, the generation of such knowledge entails considerable human labor and time costs. This study investigates the potential of Large…

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) refers to the problem of learning to classify instances from the novel classes (unseen) that are absent in the training set (seen). Most ZSL methods infer the correlation between visual features and attributes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Zhe Liu , Yun Li , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Guodong Long

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) learns models for recognizing new classes. One of the main challenges in ZSL is the domain discrepancy caused by the category inconsistency between training and testing data. Domain adaptation is the most intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Fengmao Lv , Jianyang Zhang , Guowu Yang , Lei Feng , Yufeng Yu , Lixin Duan