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In smart retail applications, the large number of products and their frequent turnover necessitate reliable zero-shot object classification methods. The zero-shot assumption is essential to avoid the need for re-training the classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Anil Osman Tur , Alessandro Conti , Cigdem Beyan , Davide Boscaini , Roberto Larcher , Stefano Messelodi , Fabio Poiesi , Elisa Ricci

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate impressive abilities on numerous image understanding and reasoning tasks. The task of fine-grained object classification (e.g., distinction between \textit{animal species}), however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gregor Geigle , Radu Timofte , Goran Glavaš

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot transfer capabilities in image-level visual perception. However, these models have shown limited performance in instance-level tasks that demand precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Lingfeng Yang , Yueze Wang , Xiang Li , Xinlong Wang , Jian Yang

Recent Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of multimodal reasoning tasks. This raises the question of whether such general-purpose models can also address specialized visual recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vaclav Javorek , Jakub Honzik , Ivan Gruber , Tomas Zelezny , Marek Hruz

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. To comprehend and execute diverse human instructions over image data, instruction-tuned large vision-language models (LVLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lei Wang , Jiabang He , Shenshen Li , Ning Liu , Ee-Peng Lim

Aligning the recent large language models (LLMs) with computer vision models leads to large vision-language models (LVLMs), which have paved the way for zero-shot image reasoning tasks. However, LVLMs are usually trained on short high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kaiwen Yang , Tao Shen , Xinmei Tian , Xiubo Geng , Chongyang Tao , Dacheng Tao , Tianyi Zhou

Recent works have shown that unstructured text (documents) from online sources can serve as useful auxiliary information for zero-shot image classification. However, these methods require access to a high-quality source like Wikipedia and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan , Yongqin Xian , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal , Didier Stricker , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

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

Vision-Language models (VLMs) that use contrastive language-image pre-training have shown promising zero-shot classification performance. However, their performance on imbalanced dataset is relatively poor, where the distribution of classes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yidong Wang , Zhuohao Yu , Jindong Wang , Qiang Heng , Hao Chen , Wei Ye , Rui Xie , Xing Xie , Shikun Zhang

Zero-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a prominent vision-language task that examines both the visual and textual understanding capability of systems in the absence of training data. Recently, by converting the images into captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yunshi Lan , Xiang Li , Xin Liu , Yang Li , Wei Qin , Weining Qian

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

Existing fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) methods learn discriminative embeddings by adopting semantically sparse one-hot labels derived from category names as supervision. While effective on seen classes, such supervision overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shijie Wang , Xin Yu , Yadan Luo , Zijian Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Zi Huang

Low-shot image classification, where training images are limited or inaccessible, has benefited from recent progress on pre-trained vision-language (VL) models with strong generalizability, e.g. CLIP. Prompt learning methods built with VL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zhaoheng Zheng , Jingmin Wei , Xuefeng Hu , Haidong Zhu , Ram Nevatia

The effectiveness of zero-shot classification in large vision-language models (VLMs), such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), depends on access to extensive, well-aligned text-image datasets. In this work, we introduce two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anju Rani , Daniel O. Arroyo , Petar Durdevic

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities, yet their potential for vision-only tasks remains underexplored. We investigate MLLMs as training-free similarity estimators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Bahey Tharwat , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Pavel Suma , Ian Reid , Giorgos Tolias

Zero-shot learning (ZL) is crucial for tasks involving unseen categories, such as natural language processing, image classification, and cross-lingual transfer.Current applications often fail to accurately infer and handle new relations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bingchen Liu , Jingchen Li , Yuanyuan Fang , Xin Li

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging task due to the large intra-class variance and small inter-class variance, aiming at recognizing hundreds of sub-categories belonging to the same basic-level category. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

We study the application of large language models to zero-shot and few-shot classification of tabular data. We prompt the large language model with a serialization of the tabular data to a natural-language string, together with a short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Stefan Hegselmann , Alejandro Buendia , Hunter Lang , Monica Agrawal , Xiaoyi Jiang , David Sontag

Domain-specific knowledge can significantly contribute to addressing a wide variety of vision tasks. However, the generation of such knowledge entails considerable human labor and time costs. This study investigates the potential of Large…