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Machine learning classifiers are often trained to recognize a set of pre-defined classes. However, in many applications, it is often desirable to have the flexibility of learning additional concepts, with limited data and without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Mengye Ren , Renjie Liao , Ethan Fetaya , Richard S. Zemel

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

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) 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) aims at recognizing novel classes given only few training samples, which still remains a great challenge for deep learning. However, humans can easily recognize novel classes with only few samples. A key component of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Ke Chen , Yonghong Tian , Yaowei Wang , José M. F. Moura

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

While deep learning excels in computer vision tasks with abundant labeled data, its performance diminishes significantly in scenarios with limited labeled samples. To address this, Few-shot learning (FSL) enables models to perform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Huali Xu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Shuzhou Sun , Vishal M. Patel , Li Liu

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Existing methods suffer the problem of feature undermining, i.e. potential novel classes are treated as background during training phase. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lihe Yang , Wei Zhuo , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Despite the widespread success of deep learning, its intense requirements for vast amounts of data and extensive training make it impractical for various real-world applications where data is scarce. In recent years, Few-Shot Learning (FSL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Georgios Tsoumplekas , Vladislav Li , Panagiotis Sarigiannidis , Vasileios Argyriou

To recognize the unseen classes with only few samples, few-shot learning (FSL) uses prior knowledge learned from the seen classes. A major challenge for FSL is that the distribution of the unseen classes is different from that of those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn new categories with a few visual samples per class. Few-shot class representations are often biased due to data scarcity. To mitigate this issue, we propose to generate visual samples based on semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel queries with only a few support samples through leveraging prior knowledge from a base dataset. In this paper, we consider the domain shift problem in FSL and aim to address the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wentao Chen , Zhang Zhang , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Few-shot Learning (FSL), which endeavors to develop the generalization ability for recognizing novel classes using only a few images, faces significant challenges due to data scarcity. Recent CLIP-like methods based on contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wei Zhuo , Runjie Luo , Wufeng Xue , Linlin Shen

This paper investigates a new challenging problem called defensive few-shot learning in order to learn a robust few-shot model against adversarial attacks. Simply applying the existing adversarial defense methods to few-shot learning cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Wenbin Li , Lei Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Lei Qi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

In this paper, we are interested in the few-shot learning problem. In particular, we focus on a challenging scenario where the number of categories is large and the number of examples per novel category is very limited, e.g. 1, 2, or 3.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Siyuan Qiao , Chenxi Liu , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to enable models to recognize novel objects or classes with limited labelled data. Feature generators, which synthesize new data points to augment limited datasets, have emerged as a promising solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Heethanjan Kanagalingam , Thenukan Pathmanathan , Navaneethan Ketheeswaran , Mokeeshan Vathanakumar , Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Due to the emergence of powerful computing resources and large-scale annotated datasets, deep learning has seen wide applications in our daily life. However, most current methods require extensive data collection and retraining when dealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chuangguan Ye , Hongyuan Zhu , Yongbin Liao , Yanggang Zhang , Tao Chen , Jiayuan Fan

Few-shot learning is often motivated by the ability of humans to learn new tasks from few examples. However, standard few-shot classification benchmarks assume that the representation is learned on a limited amount of base class data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yann Lifchitz , Yannis Avrithis , Sylvaine Picard

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhao Li , Qiangchang Wang , Xianjing Meng , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin