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Zero-Shot Recognition using Dual Visual-Semantic Mapping Paths
Zero-shot recognition aims to accurately recognize objects of unseen classes
by using a shared visual-semantic mapping between the image feature space and
the semantic embedding space. This mapping is learned on training data of seen
classes and is expected to have transfer ability to unseen classes. In this
paper, we tackle this problem by exploiting the intrinsic relationship between
the semantic space manifold and the transfer ability of visual-semantic
mapping. We formalize their connection and cast zero-shot recognition as a
joint optimization problem. Motivated by this, we propose a novel framework for
zero-shot recognition, which contains dual visual-semantic mapping paths. Our
analysis shows this framework can not only apply prior semantic knowledge to
infer underlying semantic manifold in the image feature space, but also
generate optimized semantic embedding space, which can enhance the transfer
ability of the visual-semantic mapping to unseen classes. The proposed method
is evaluated for zero-shot recognition on four benchmark datasets, achieving
outstanding results.Comment: Accepted as a full paper in IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR) 201
Learning joint feature adaptation for zero-shot recognition
Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) aims to recognize target-domain data instances of unseen classes based on the models learned from associated pairs of seen-class source and target domain data. One of the key challenges in ZSR is the relative scarcity of source-domain features (e.g. one feature vector per class), which do not fully account for wide variability in target-domain instances. In this paper we propose a novel framework of learning data-dependent feature transforms for scoring similarity between an arbitrary pair of source and target data instances to account for the wide variability in target domain. Our proposed approach is based on optimizing over a parameterized family of local feature displacements that maximize the source-target adaptive similarity functions. Accordingly we propose formulating zero-shot learning (ZSL) using latent structural SVMs to learn our similarity functions from training data. As demonstration we design a specific algorithm under the proposed framework involving bilinear similarity functions and regularized least squares as penalties for feature displacement. We test our approach on several benchmark datasets for ZSR and show significant improvement over the state-of-the-art. For instance, on aP&Y dataset we can achieve 80.89% in terms of recognition accuracy, outperforming the state-of-the-art by 11.15%
Transductive Multi-View Zero-Shot Learning
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Structure propagation for zero-shot learning
The key of zero-shot learning (ZSL) is how to find the information transfer
model for bridging the gap between images and semantic information (texts or
attributes). Existing ZSL methods usually construct the compatibility function
between images and class labels with the consideration of the relevance on the
semantic classes (the manifold structure of semantic classes). However, the
relationship of image classes (the manifold structure of image classes) is also
very important for the compatibility model construction. It is difficult to
capture the relationship among image classes due to unseen classes, so that the
manifold structure of image classes often is ignored in ZSL. To complement each
other between the manifold structure of image classes and that of semantic
classes information, we propose structure propagation (SP) for improving the
performance of ZSL for classification. SP can jointly consider the manifold
structure of image classes and that of semantic classes for approximating to
the intrinsic structure of object classes. Moreover, the SP can describe the
constrain condition between the compatibility function and these manifold
structures for balancing the influence of the structure propagation iteration.
The SP solution provides not only unseen class labels but also the relationship
of two manifold structures that encode the positive transfer in structure
propagation. Experimental results demonstrate that SP can attain the promising
results on the AwA, CUB, Dogs and SUN databases
Transductive Multi-label Zero-shot Learning
Zero-shot learning has received increasing interest as a means to alleviate
the often prohibitive expense of annotating training data for large scale
recognition problems. These methods have achieved great success via learning
intermediate semantic representations in the form of attributes and more
recently, semantic word vectors. However, they have thus far been constrained
to the single-label case, in contrast to the growing popularity and importance
of more realistic multi-label data. In this paper, for the first time, we
investigate and formalise a general framework for multi-label zero-shot
learning, addressing the unique challenge therein: how to exploit multi-label
correlation at test time with no training data for those classes? In
particular, we propose (1) a multi-output deep regression model to project an
image into a semantic word space, which explicitly exploits the correlations in
the intermediate semantic layer of word vectors; (2) a novel zero-shot learning
algorithm for multi-label data that exploits the unique compositionality
property of semantic word vector representations; and (3) a transductive
learning strategy to enable the regression model learned from seen classes to
generalise well to unseen classes. Our zero-shot learning experiments on a
number of standard multi-label datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms
a variety of baselines.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, Accepted to BMVC 2014 (oral
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