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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at recognizing classes for which no visual sample is available at training time. To address this issue, one can rely on a semantic description of each class. A typical ZSL model learns a mapping between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Celina Hanouti , Hervé Le Borgne

Precise action localization in untrimmed video is vital for fields such as professional sports and minimally invasive surgery, where the delineation of particular motions in recordings can dramatically enhance analysis. But in many cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Josiah Aklilu , Xiaohan Wang , Serena Yeung-Levy

The ability to understand and reason the 3D real world is a crucial milestone towards artificial general intelligence. The current common practice is to finetune Large Language Models (LLMs) with 3D data and texts to enable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sha Zhang , Di Huang , Jiajun Deng , Shixiang Tang , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He , Yanyong Zhang

We propose a novel Generalized Zero-Shot learning (GZSL) method that is agnostic to both unseen images and unseen semantic vectors during training. Prior works in this context propose to map high-dimensional visual features to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

We present a generative framework for zero-shot action recognition where some of the possible action classes do not occur in the training data. Our approach is based on modeling each action class using a probability distribution whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ashish Mishra , Vinay Kumar Verma , M Shiva Krishna Reddy , Arulkumar S , Piyush Rai , Anurag Mittal

Zero-shot learning methods rely on fixed visual and semantic embeddings, extracted from independent vision and language models, both pre-trained for other large-scale tasks. This is a weakness of current zero-shot learning frameworks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shah Nawaz , Jacopo Cavazza , Alessio Del Bue

We propose a novel zero-shot approach for keypoint detection on 3D shapes. Point-level reasoning on visual data is challenging as it requires precise localization capability, posing problems even for powerful models like DINO or CLIP.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bingchen Gong , Diego Gomez , Abdullah Hamdi , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Ahmed Abdelreheem , Peter Wonka , Maks Ovsjanikov

Foundation models have attracted widespread attention across domains due to their powerful zero-shot classification capabilities. This work is motivated by two key observations: (1) \textit{Vision-Language Models} (VLMs), such as CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhanxuan Hu , Qiyu Xu , Yu Duan , Yonghang Tai , Huafeng Li

Powered by large-scale pre-training, vision foundation models exhibit significant potential in open-world image understanding. However, unlike large language models that excel at directly tackling various language tasks, vision foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yang Liu , Muzhi Zhu , Hengtao Li , Hao Chen , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen

Large-scale Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs), such as CLIP, now underpin a wide range of computer vision research and applications. VLFMs are often adapted to various domain-specific tasks. However, VLFM performance on novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chris Vorster , Mayug Maniparambil , Noel E. O'Connor , Noel Murphy , Derek Molloy

Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Soroush Seifi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Fabien Despinoy , Rahaf Aljundi

Zero-shot multi-label recognition (MLR) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) faces significant challenges without training data, model tuning, or architectural modifications. Existing approaches require prompt tuning or architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kevin Miller , Samarth Mishra , Aditya Gangrade , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a new paradigmatic vision foundation model, showcasing potent zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting. Despite SAM finding applications and adaptations in various domains, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xumeng Han , Longhui Wei , Xuehui Yu , Zhiyang Dou , Xin He , Kuiran Wang , Yingfei Sun , Zhenjun Han , Qi Tian

A modern paradigm for generalization in machine learning and AI consists of pre-training a task-agnostic foundation model, generally obtained using self-supervised and multimodal contrastive learning. The resulting representations can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-03 Ronak Mehta , Zaid Harchaoui

Camouflaged object segmentation presents unique challenges compared to traditional segmentation tasks, primarily due to the high similarity in patterns and colors between camouflaged objects and their backgrounds. Effective solutions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenqi Guo , Mohamed Shehata , Shan Du

Large-scale vision foundation models have demonstrated remarkable success across various tasks, underscoring their robust generalization capabilities. While their proficiency in two-view correspondence has been explored, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Görkay Aydemir , Weidi Xie , Fatma Güney

Scene understanding and reasoning has been a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision, requiring models to identify objects, their properties, and spatial or comparative relationships among the objects. Existing approaches enable this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vivek Madhavaram , Vartika Sengar , Arkadipta De , Charu Sharma

Zero-shot recognition aims to classify an image by selecting the most compatible label description from a set of candidate classes without any task-specific supervision. In fine-grained settings, however, the relevant evidence often lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Junyi Hu , Qiji Zhou , Lei Zhang , Yue Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at understanding unseen categories with no training examples from class-level descriptions. To improve the discriminative power of zero-shot learning, we model the visual learning process of unseen categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Mohamed Elfeki

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) challenges robots to find objects in unseen environments, demanding sophisticated reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show potential, current ObjectNav methods often employ them superficially,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah