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Text prompts are crucial for generalizing pre-trained open-set object detection models to new categories. However, current methods for text prompts are limited as they require manual feedback when generalizing to new categories, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Qibo Chen , Weizhong Jin , Shuchang Li , Mengdi Liu , Li Yu , Jian Jiang , Xiaozheng Wang

Through prompting, large-scale pre-trained models have become more expressive and powerful, gaining significant attention in recent years. Though these big models have zero-shot capabilities, in general, labeled data are still required to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Korawat Tanwisuth , Shujian Zhang , Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Mingyuan Zhou

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-trained models provide the zero-shot model achieving competitive performance across a range of image classification tasks without requiring training on downstream data. Recent works have confirmed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Giung Nam , Byeongho Heo , Juho Lee

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) endeavors to transfer knowledge from seen categories to recognize unseen categories, which mostly relies on the semantic-visual interactions between image and attribute tokens. Recently, prompt learning has emerged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Man Liu , Huihui Bai , Feng Li , Chunjie Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Tat-Seng Chua , Yao Zhao

We tackle the problem of quantifying the number of objects by a generative text-to-image model. Rather than retraining such a model for each new image domain of interest, which leads to high computational costs and limited scalability, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Yefeng Zheng , Cees G. M. Snoek

This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating it as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

The goal of this work is to establish a scalable pipeline for expanding an object detector towards novel/unseen categories, using zero manual annotations. To achieve that, we make the following four contributions: (i) in pursuit of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chengjian Feng , Yujie Zhong , Zequn Jie , Xiangxiang Chu , Haibing Ren , Xiaolin Wei , Weidi Xie , Lin Ma

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

We address the challenge of building task-agnostic classifiers using only text descriptions, demonstrating a unified approach to image classification, 3D point cloud classification, and action recognition from scenes. Unlike approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ohad Amosy , Tomer Volk , Eilam Shapira , Eyal Ben-David , Roi Reichart , Gal Chechik

Purpose: In order to produce a surgical gesture recognition system that can support a wide variety of procedures, either a very large annotated dataset must be acquired, or fitted models must generalize to new labels (so called "zero-shot"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mingxing Rao , Yinhong Qin , Soheil Kolouri , Jie Ying Wu , Daniel Moyer

Existing works on visual counting primarily focus on one specific category at a time, such as people, animals, and cells. In this paper, we are interested in counting everything, that is to count objects from any category given only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Viresh Ranjan , Udbhav Sharma , Thu Nguyen , Minh Hoai

Large language models have shown that impressive zero-shot performance can be achieved through natural language prompts (Radford et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020; Sanh et al., 2021). Creating an effective prompt, however, requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Gabriel Orlanski

Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maxime Bucher , Tuan-Hung Vu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Learning from feedback has been shown to enhance the alignment between text prompts and images in text-to-image diffusion models. However, due to the lack of focus in feedback content, especially regarding the object type and quantity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xuexiang Niu , Jinping Tang , Lei Wang , Ge Zhu

Zero-shot intent classification is a vital and challenging task in dialogue systems, which aims to deal with numerous fast-emerging unacquainted intents without annotated training data. To obtain more satisfactory performance, the crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Han Liu , Siyang Zhao , Xiaotong Zhang , Feng Zhang , Junjie Sun , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

In this paper, we consider the problem of generalised visual object counting, with the goal of developing a computational model for counting the number of objects from arbitrary semantic categories, using arbitrary number of "exemplars",…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Chang Liu , Yujie Zhong , Andrew Zisserman , Weidi Xie

Zero-shot object counting attempts to estimate the number of object instances belonging to novel categories that the vision model performing the counting has never encountered during training. Existing methods typically require large amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Richard Füzesséry , Kaziwa Saleh , Sándor Szénási , Zoltán Vámossy

Treating texts as images, combining prompts with textual labels for prompt tuning, and leveraging the alignment properties of CLIP have been successfully applied in zero-shot multi-label image recognition. Nonetheless, relying solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haonan Xu , Dian Chao , Xiangyu Wu , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang