Attribute Distribution Modeling and Semantic-Visual Alignment for Generative Zero-shot Learning

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Main Authors: Pu, Haojie, Li, Zhuoming, Gao, Yongbiao, Jia, Yuheng
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author Pu, Haojie
Li, Zhuoming
Gao, Yongbiao
Jia, Yuheng
author_facet Pu, Haojie
Li, Zhuoming
Gao, Yongbiao
Jia, Yuheng
contents Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) synthesizes features for unseen classes, leveraging semantic conditions to transfer knowledge from seen classes. However, it also introduces two intrinsic challenges: (1) class-level attributes fails to capture instance-specific visual appearances due to substantial intra-class variability, thus causing the class-instance gap; (2) the substantial mismatch between semantic and visual feature distributions, manifested in inter-class correlations, gives rise to the semantic-visual domain gap. To address these challenges, we propose an Attribute Distribution Modeling and Semantic-Visual Alignment (ADiVA) approach, jointly modeling attribute distributions and performing explicit semantic-visual alignment. Specifically, our ADiVA consists of two modules: an Attribute Distribution Modeling (ADM) module that learns a transferable attribute distribution for each class and samples instance-level attributes for unseen classes, and a Visual-Guided Alignment (VGA) module that refines semantic representations to better reflect visual structures. Experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that ADiVA significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods (e.g., achieving gains of 4.7% and 6.1% on AWA2 and SUN, respectively). Moreover, our approach can serve as a plugin to enhance existing generative ZSL methods.
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spellingShingle Attribute Distribution Modeling and Semantic-Visual Alignment for Generative Zero-shot Learning
Pu, Haojie
Li, Zhuoming
Gao, Yongbiao
Jia, Yuheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) synthesizes features for unseen classes, leveraging semantic conditions to transfer knowledge from seen classes. However, it also introduces two intrinsic challenges: (1) class-level attributes fails to capture instance-specific visual appearances due to substantial intra-class variability, thus causing the class-instance gap; (2) the substantial mismatch between semantic and visual feature distributions, manifested in inter-class correlations, gives rise to the semantic-visual domain gap. To address these challenges, we propose an Attribute Distribution Modeling and Semantic-Visual Alignment (ADiVA) approach, jointly modeling attribute distributions and performing explicit semantic-visual alignment. Specifically, our ADiVA consists of two modules: an Attribute Distribution Modeling (ADM) module that learns a transferable attribute distribution for each class and samples instance-level attributes for unseen classes, and a Visual-Guided Alignment (VGA) module that refines semantic representations to better reflect visual structures. Experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that ADiVA significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods (e.g., achieving gains of 4.7% and 6.1% on AWA2 and SUN, respectively). Moreover, our approach can serve as a plugin to enhance existing generative ZSL methods.
title Attribute Distribution Modeling and Semantic-Visual Alignment for Generative Zero-shot Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06281