No Adversaries to Zero-Shot Learning : Distilling an Ensemble of Gaussian Feature Generators

In zero-shot learning (ZSL), the task of recognizing unseen categories when no data for training is available, state-of-the-art methods generate visual features from semantic auxiliary information (e.g., attributes). In this work, we propose a valid alternative (simpler, yet better scoring) to fulfi...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 45(2023), 10 vom: 20. Okt., Seite 12167-12178
1. Verfasser: Cavazza, Jacopo (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Murino, Vittorio, Bue, Alessio Del
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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