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Few-shot Learning aims to learn and distinguish new categories with a very limited number of available images, presenting a significant challenge in the realm of deep learning. Recent researchers have sought to leverage the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chunpeng Zhou , Haishuai Wang , Xilu Yuan , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

Few-shot learning (FSL) is a machine learning paradigm that aims to generalize models from a small number of labeled examples, typically fewer than 10 per class. FSL is particularly crucial in biomedical, environmental, materials, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Pengtao Dang , Tingbo Guo , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Over the last couple of years few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted great attention towards minimizing the dependency on labeled training examples. An inherent difficulty in FSL is the handling of ambiguities resulting from having too few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gökberk Cinbiş

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

While few-shot learning (FSL) aims for rapid generalization to new concepts with little supervision, self-supervised learning (SSL) constructs supervisory signals directly computed from unlabeled data. Exploiting the complementarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengyu Chen , Jixie Ge , Heshen Zhan , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) aims to improve a model's generalization capability in low data regimes. Recent FSL works have made steady progress via metric learning, meta learning, representation learning, etc. However, FSL remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Meng Ye , Xiao Lin , Giedrius Burachas , Ajay Divakaran , Yi Yao

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent FSL advances for video and 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Kendall N. Niles , Joe Tom , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Elias Ioup

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods rely on training with a large labeled dataset, which prevents them from leveraging abundant unlabeled data. From an information-theoretic perspective, we propose an effective unsupervised FSL method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yuning Lu , Liangjian Wen , Jianzhuang Liu , Yajing Liu , Xinmei Tian

Large deep learning models are impressive, but they struggle when real-time data is not available. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) poses a significant challenge for deep neural networks to learn new tasks from just a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Songsong Tian , Lusi Li , Weijun Li , Hang Ran , Xin Ning , Prayag Tiwari

Few-shot learning (FSL) approaches are usually based on an assumption that the pre-trained knowledge can be obtained from base (seen) categories and can be well transferred to novel (unseen) categories. However, there is no guarantee,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms are commonly trained through Meta-Learning (ML), which exposes models to batches of tasks sampled from a meta-dataset to mimic tasks seen during evaluation. However, the standard training procedures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mateusz Ochal , Massimiliano Patacchiola , Amos Storkey , Jose Vazquez , Sen Wang

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) algorithms have made substantial progress in learning novel concepts with just a handful of labelled data. To classify query instances from novel classes encountered at test-time, they only require a support set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Etienne Bennequin , Victor Bouvier , Myriam Tami , Antoine Toubhans , Céline Hudelot

We study the few-shot learning (FSL) problem, where a model learns to recognize new objects with extremely few labeled training data per category. Most of previous FSL approaches resort to the meta-learning paradigm, where the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

Deep convolutional neural networks generally perform well in underwater object recognition tasks on both optical and sonar images. Many such methods require hundreds, if not thousands, of images per class to generalize well to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mateusz Ochal , Jose Vazquez , Yvan Petillot , Sen Wang

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) requires vision models to quickly adapt to brand-new classification tasks with a shift in task distribution. Understanding the difficulties posed by this task distribution shift is central to FSL. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xu Luo , Jing Xu , Zenglin Xu

Meta-learning offers a promising avenue for few-shot learning (FSL), enabling models to glean a generalizable feature embedding through episodic training on synthetic FSL tasks in a source domain. Yet, in practical scenarios where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fei Zhou , Peng Wang , Lei Zhang , Zhenghua Chen , Wei Wei , Chen Ding , Guosheng Lin , Yanning Zhang