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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize novel classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. Since semantic knowledge is built on attributes shared between different classes, which are highly local,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Yang Liu , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Yifei Huang , Lin Gu , Jun Zhou , Tatsuya Harada

To recognize objects of the unseen classes, most existing Zero-Shot Learning(ZSL) methods first learn a compatible projection function between the common semantic space and the visual space based on the data of source seen classes, then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ziyu Wan , Dongdong Chen , Yan Li , Xingguang Yan , Junge Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jing Liao

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. However, there still exists a considerable performance gap between these models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes without labeled training examples by leveraging class-level semantic descriptors such as attributes. A fundamental challenge in ZSL is semantic misalignment, where semantic-unrelated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhi Chen , Zecheng Zhao , Jingcai Guo , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) and Open-Set Recognition (OSR) are two mainstream settings that greatly extend conventional visual object recognition. However, the limitations of their problem settings are not negligible. The novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zhaonan Li , Hongfu Liu

Deep neural networks have achieved promising progress in remote sensing (RS) image classification, for which the training process requires abundant samples for each class. However, it is time-consuming and unrealistic to annotate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Mugen Peng , Yirong Wu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as the dominant approach for zero-shot recognition, adept at handling diverse scenarios and significant distribution changes. However, their deployment in risk-sensitive areas requires a deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Dylan Campbell , Stephen Gould , Tom Gedeon

Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabilities remain under-explored. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Illia Volkov , Nikita Kisel , Klara Janouskova , Jiri Matas

Zero-shot learning is a learning regime that recognizes unseen classes by generalizing the visual-semantic relationship learned from the seen classes. To obtain an effective ZSL model, one may resort to curating training samples from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhi Chen , Yadan Luo , Sen Wang , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang

Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel compositions of attributes and objects learned from seen compositions. Previous works disentangle attributes and objects by extracting shared and exclusive parts between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xudong Yan , Songhe Feng , Yang Zhang , Jian Yang , Yueguan Lin , Haojun Fei

Due to the lack of properly annotated medical data, exploring the generalization capability of the deep model is becoming a public concern. Zero-shot learning (ZSL) has emerged in recent years to equip the deep model with the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Bian , Chenglang Yuan , Kai Ma , Shuang Yu , Dong Wei , Yefeng Zheng

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) is a critical task in computer vision that enables models to recognize unseen combinations of known attributes and objects during inference, addressing the combinatorial challenge of requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ans Munir , Faisal Z. Qureshi , Mohsen Ali , Muhammad Haris Khan

The development of vision-language models (VLMs) for histo-pathology has shown promising new usages and zero-shot performances. However, current approaches, which decompose large slides into smaller patches, focus solely on inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Maxime Zanella , Fereshteh Shakeri , Yunshi Huang , Houda Bahig , Ismail Ben Ayed

Vision-language models such as CLIP are pretrained on large volumes of internet sourced image and text pairs, and have been shown to sometimes exhibit impressive zero- and low-shot image classification performance. However, due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

Vision-language models such as CLIP are capable of mapping the different modality data into a unified feature space, enabling zero/few-shot inference by measuring the similarity of given images and texts. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Yi Tan , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao , Hanwang Zhang

Recent advances in large language and vision-language models have enabled zero-shot inference, allowing models to solve new tasks without task-specific training. Various adaptation techniques such as prompt engineering, In-Context Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Artyom Gadetsky , Andrei Atanov , Yulun Jiang , Zhitong Gao , Ghazal Hosseini Mighan , Amir Zamir , Maria Brbic

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have gained popularity for their strong open vocabulary classification performance, but they are prone to assigning high confidence scores to misclassifications, limiting their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhenxiang Lin , Maryam Haghighat , Will Browne , Dimity Miller

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) is a transfer learning technique which aims at transferring knowledge from seen classes to unseen classes. This knowledge transfer is possible because of underlying semantic space which is common to seen and unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Omkar Gune , Mainak Pal , Preeti Mukherjee , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Vision-language model (VLM) encoders such as CLIP enable strong retrieval and zero-shot classification in a shared image-text embedding space, yet the semantic organization of this space is rarely inspected. We present a post-hoc framework…