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Video understanding has long suffered from reliance on large labeled datasets, motivating research into zero-shot learning. Recent progress in language modeling presents opportunities to advance zero-shot video analysis, but constructing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Shreyank N Gowda , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Web-crawled pretraining datasets underlie the impressive "zero-shot" evaluation performance of multimodal models, such as CLIP for classification/retrieval and Stable-Diffusion for image generation. However, it is unclear how meaningful the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Vishaal Udandarao , Ameya Prabhu , Adhiraj Ghosh , Yash Sharma , Philip H. S. Torr , Adel Bibi , Samuel Albanie , Matthias Bethge

One of important areas of machine learning research is zero-shot learning. It is applied when properly labeled training data set is not available. A number of zero-shot algorithms have been proposed and experimented with. However, none of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Elie Saad , Marcin Paprzycki , Maria Ganzha

Stereo matching serves as a cornerstone in 3D vision, aiming to establish pixel-wise correspondences between stereo image pairs for depth recovery. Despite remarkable progress driven by deep neural architectures, current models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xianda Guo , Chenming Zhang , Youmin Zhang , Ruilin Wang , Dujun Nie , Wenzhao Zheng , Matteo Poggi , Hao Zhao , Mang Ye , Qin Zou , Long Chen

Foundation segmentation models achieve reasonable leaf instance extraction from top-view crop images without training (i.e., zero-shot). However, segmenting entire plant individuals with each consisting of multiple overlapping leaves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Junhao Xing , Ryohei Miyakawa , Yang Yang , Xinpeng Liu , Risa Shinoda , Hiroaki Santo , Yosuke Toda , Fumio Okura

The task of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is to predict the location of a query image from a database of geo-tagged images. Recent studies in VPR have highlighted the significant advantage of employing pre-trained foundation models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Issar Tzachor , Boaz Lerner , Matan Levy , Michael Green , Tal Berkovitz Shalev , Gavriel Habib , Dvir Samuel , Noam Korngut Zailer , Or Shimshi , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

Zero-shot referring image segmentation aims to locate and segment the target region based on a referring expression, with the primary challenge of aligning and matching semantics across visual and textual modalities without training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiachen Li , Qing Xie , Renshu Gu , Jinyu Xu , Yongjian Liu , Xiaohan Yu

Object 6D pose estimation is a critical challenge in robotics, particularly for manipulation tasks. While prior research combining visual and tactile (visuotactile) information has shown promise, these approaches often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Hongyu Li , James Akl , Srinath Sridhar , Tye Brady , Taskin Padir

Object pose estimation, crucial in computer vision and robotics applications, faces challenges with the diversity of unseen categories. We propose a zero-shot method to achieve category-level 6-DOF object pose estimation, which exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Wentian Qu , Chenyu Meng , Heng Li , Jian Cheng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang , Xiao Zhou , Xiaoming Deng , Ping Tan

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen object classes without any training samples, which can be regarded as a form of transfer learning from seen classes to unseen ones. This is made possible by learning a projection between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 An Zhao , Mingyu Ding , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

Zero-shot learning extends the conventional object classification to the unseen class recognition by introducing semantic representations of classes. Existing approaches predominantly focus on learning the proper mapping function for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yizhe Zhu , Jianwen Xie , Zhiqiang Tang , Xi Peng , Ahmed Elgammal

We propose a zero-shot approach to image harmonization, aiming to overcome the reliance on large amounts of synthetic composite images in existing methods. These methods, while showing promising results, involve significant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianqi Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Keyan Chen , Zhenwei Shi

Visual grounding, a crucial vision-language task involving the understanding of the visual context based on the query expression, necessitates the model to capture the interactions between objects, as well as various spatial and attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Mingwei Zhu , Jianwei Yin

We introduce a simple yet effective episode-based training framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL), where the learning system requires to recognize unseen classes given only the corresponding class semantics. During training, the model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Zhongfei Zhang , Jungong Han

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

The existing zero-shot detection approaches project visual features to the semantic domain for seen objects, hoping to map unseen objects to their corresponding semantics during inference. However, since the unseen objects are never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Nasir Hayat , Munawar Hayat , Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Syed Waqas Zamir , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The zero-shot performance of existing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP is limited by the availability of large-scale, aligned image and text datasets in specific domains. In this work, we leverage two complementary sources of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Oindrila Saha , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

Despite recent breakthroughs in reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), existing algorithms fail to generalize beyond the training environments. In reality, humans can adapt to new tasks quickly by leveraging prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tianshi Cao , Jingkang Wang , Yining Zhang , Sivabalan Manivasagam

Masked language models like BERT can perform text classification in a zero-shot fashion by reformulating downstream tasks as text infilling. However, this approach is highly sensitive to the template used to prompt the model, yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Mozes van de Kar , Mengzhou Xia , Danqi Chen , Mikel Artetxe