Learning discriminative and meaningful samples for generalized zero shot classification

摘要

Generalized zero shot classification aims to recognize both seen and unseen samples in test sets, which has gained great attention. Recently, many works consider using generative adversarial network to generate unseen samples for solving generalized zero shot classification problem. In this paper, we study how to generate discriminative and meaningful samples. We propose a method to learn discriminative and meaningful samples for generalized zero shot classification tasks (LDMS) by generative adversarial network with the regularization of class consistency and semantic consistency. In order to make the generated samples discriminative, class consistency is used, such that the generated samples of the same classes are near and of different classes are far away. In order to make the generated samples meaningful, semantic consistency is used, such that the semantic representations of the generated samples are close to their class prototypes. It encodes the discriminative information and semantic information to the generator. In order to alleviate the bias problem, we select some confident unseen samples. We use the seen samples, the generated unseen samples and the selected confident unseen samples to train the final classifier. Extensive experiments on all datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can outperform state-of-the-art models on generalized zero shot classification tasks.