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Modality independent adversarial network for generalized zero shot image classification

Zhang, Haofeng; Wang, Yinduo; Long, Yang; Yang, Longzhi; Shao, Ling

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Authors

Haofeng Zhang

Yinduo Wang

Longzhi Yang

Ling Shao



Abstract

Zero Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to classify images of unseen target classes by transferring knowledge from source classes through semantic embeddings. The core of ZSL research is to embed both visual representation of object instance and semantic description of object class into a joint latent space and learn cross-modal (visual and semantic) latent representations. However, the learned representations by existing efforts often fail to fully capture the underlying cross-modal semantic consistency, and some of the representations are very similar and less discriminative. To circumvent these issues, in this paper, we propose a novel deep framework, called Modality Independent Adversarial Network (MIANet) for Generalized Zero Shot Learning (GZSL), which is an end-to-end deep architecture with three submodules. First, both visual feature and semantic description are embedded into a latent hyper-spherical space, where two orthogonal constraints are employed to ensure the learned latent representations discriminative. Second, a modality adversarial submodule is employed to make the latent representations independent of modalities to make the shared representations grab more cross-modal high-level semantic information during training. Third, a cross reconstruction submodule is proposed to reconstruct latent representations into the counterparts instead of themselves to make them capture more modality irrelevant information. Comprehensive experiments on five widely used benchmark datasets are conducted on both GZSL and standard ZSL settings, and the results show the effectiveness of our proposed method.

Citation

Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Long, Y., Yang, L., & Shao, L. (2021). Modality independent adversarial network for generalized zero shot image classification. Neural Networks, 134, 11-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.11.007

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 15, 2020
Online Publication Date Nov 21, 2020
Publication Date 2021-02
Deposit Date May 26, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Neural Networks
Print ISSN 0893-6080
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 134
Pages 11-22
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.11.007

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