Robust Bidirectional Generative Network For Generalized Zero-Shot Learning

In this work, we propose a novel generative approach named Robust Bidirectional Generative Network (RBGN) based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) for Generalized Zero-shot Learning (GZSL). RBGN employs the adversarial attack to train a more rigorous discriminator, thus enhancing the generalizability and robustness of the feature generator under minimax strategy. Moreover, RBGN decodes the generated visual features back to their semantic representations to further improve the representational ability of generated visual features and alleviate the hubness problem. The experimental results of GZSL on four datasets, i.e. CUB, SUN, AWA1, AWA2, demonstrate that our model achieves competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art approaches and owns better generalizability to the unseen classes over conventional generative GZSL models. Further robustness analysis also validates the strong robustness of our model to the different types of semantic disturbance.