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Transductive zero-shot learning with vision-language models leverages image-image similarities within the dataset to achieve better classification accuracy compared to the inductive setting. However, there is little work that explores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Oindrila Saha , Logan Lawrence , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

With recent progress in large-scale map maintenance and long-term map learning, the task of change detection on a large-scale map from a visual image captured by a mobile robot has become a problem of increasing criticality. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Tanaka Kanji

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate target objects in images given natural language queries without relying on task-specific training data, demanding strong visual understanding capabilities. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yike Wu , Necva Bolucu , Stephen Wan , Dadong Wang , Jiahao Xia , Jian Zhang

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) learn rich cross-lingual knowledge and can be finetuned to perform well on diverse tasks such as translation and multilingual word sense disambiguation (WSD). However, they often struggle at disambiguating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Haoqiang Kang , Terra Blevins , Luke Zettlemoyer

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

We tackle continual adaptation of vision-language models to new attributes, objects, and their compositions in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL), while preventing forgetting of prior knowledge. Unlike classical continual learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sauda Maryam , Sara Nadeem , Faisal Qureshi , Mohsen Ali

Detecting Human-Object Interactions (HOI) in zero-shot settings, where models must handle unseen classes, poses significant challenges. Existing methods that rely on aligning visual encoders with large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to tap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qinqian Lei , Bo Wang , Robby T. Tan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, exhibit strong image-text comprehension abilities, facilitating advances in several downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification, image-text retrieval, and text-to-image generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Le Zhang , Rabiul Awal , Aishwarya Agrawal

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognise unseen object classes, which are not observed during the training phase. The existing body of works on ZSL mostly relies on pretrained visual features and lacks the explicit attribute localisation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Faisal Alamri , Anjan Dutta

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) performs zero-shot image classification by mapping images and textual class representation into a shared embedding space, then retrieving the class closest to the image. This work provides a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Fawaz Sammani , Nikos Deligiannis

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) presents the challenge of identifying categories not seen during training. This task is crucial in domains where it is costly, prohibited, or simply not feasible to collect training data. ZSL depends on a mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 William Heyden , Habib Ullah , M. Salman Siddiqui , Fadi Al Machot

In many real world medical image classification settings we do not have access to samples of all possible disease classes, while a robust system is expected to give high performance in recognizing novel test data. We propose a generalized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Dwarikanath Mahapatra

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

Transforming a large language model (LLM) into a Vision-Language Model (VLM) can be achieved by mapping the visual tokens from a vision encoder into the embedding space of an LLM. Intriguingly, this mapping can be as simple as a shallow MLP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Benno Krojer , Shravan Nayak , Oscar Mañas , Vaibhav Adlakha , Desmond Elliott , Siva Reddy , Marius Mosbach

A fundamental aspect of the semantics of natural language is that novel meanings can be formed from the composition of previously known parts. Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in recent years, however, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Beth Pearson , Bilal Boulbarss , Michael Wray , Martha Lewis

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in zero-shot recognition but their performance varies greatly across different visual concepts. For example, although CLIP achieves impressive accuracy on ImageNet (60-80%), its performance drops below…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Shubham Parashar , Zhiqiu Lin , Tian Liu , Xiangjue Dong , Yanan Li , Deva Ramanan , James Caverlee , Shu Kong

Zero-shot learning enables the model to recognize unseen categories with the aid of auxiliary semantic information such as attributes. Current works proposed to detect attributes from local image regions and align extracted features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Junzhe Xu , Suling Duan , Chenwei Tang , Zhenan He , Jiancheng Lv

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), or Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have shown impressive capabilities in a wide range of visual tasks. However, they often struggle with fine-grained visual reasoning, failing to identify domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yucheng Shi , Quanzheng Li , Jin Sun , Xiang Li , Ninghao Liu

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a popular research problem that aims at predicting for those classes that have never appeared in the training stage by utilizing the inter-class relationship with some side information. In this study, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jiaoyan Chen , Freddy Lecue , Yuxia Geng , Jeff Z. Pan , Huajun Chen

Humans can easily tell if an attribute (also called state) is realistic, i.e., feasible, for an object, e.g. fire can be hot, but it cannot be wet. In Open-World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning, when all possible state-object combinations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jae Myung Kim , Stephan Alaniz , Cordelia Schmid , Zeynep Akata