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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

Although having achieved great success in medical image segmentation, deep convolutional neural networks usually require a large dataset with manual annotations for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen classes. Few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Xiaohui Xie

Despite its astounding success in learning deeper multi-dimensional data, the performance of deep learning declines on new unseen tasks mainly due to its focus on same-distribution prediction. Moreover, deep learning is notorious for poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hassan Gharoun , Fereshteh Momenifar , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

Object detection in challenging situations such as scale variation, occlusion, and truncation depends not only on feature details but also on contextual information. Most previous networks emphasize too much on detailed feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Wenchi Ma , Yuanwei Wu , Zongbo Wang , Guanghui Wang

Object detection typically assumes that training and test data are drawn from an identical distribution, which, however, does not always hold in practice. Such a distribution mismatch will lead to a significant performance drop. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Christos Sakaridis , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Learning with few samples is a major challenge for parameter-rich models like deep networks. In contrast, people learn complex new concepts even from very few examples, suggesting that the sample complexity of learning can often be reduced.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Roman Visotsky , Yuval Atzmon , Gal Chechik

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Few-shot visual recognition refers to recognize novel visual concepts from a few labeled instances. Many few-shot visual recognition methods adopt the metric-based meta-learning paradigm by comparing the query representation with class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mengya Han , Yibing Zhan , Yong Luo , Bo Du , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

Detecting pedestrian has been arguably addressed as a special topic beyond general object detection. Although recent deep learning object detectors such as Fast/Faster R-CNN [1, 2] have shown excellent performance for general object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Liliang Zhang , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang , Kaiming He

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Zhaozheng Chen , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive results across many super-resolution (SR) and image restoration tasks. While many such networks can upscale low-resolution (LR) images using just the raw pixel-level information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Matthew Aquilina , Christian Galea , John Abela , Kenneth P. Camilleri , Reuben A. Farrugia

Recently, progress has been made in the supervised training of Convolutional Object Detectors (e.g. Faster R-CNN) for threat recognition in carry-on luggage using X-ray images. This is part of the Transportation Security Administration's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 John B. Sigman , Gregory P. Spell , Kevin J Liang , Lawrence Carin

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

Medical image segmentation has made significant progress in recent years. Deep learning-based methods are recognized as data-hungry techniques, requiring large amounts of data with manual annotations. However, manual annotation is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yi Lin , Yufan Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Despite the great progress made by deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation, they typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen object categories. Few-shot segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kaixin Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Yingtian Zou , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Open-set few-shot image classification aims to train models using a small amount of labeled data, enabling them to achieve good generalization when confronted with unknown environments. Existing methods mainly use visual information from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Kexuan Shi , Zhuang Qi , Jingjing Zhu , Lei Meng , Yaochen Zhang , Haibei Huang , Xiangxu Meng

This paper is about few-shot segmentation of foreground objects in images. We train a CNN on small subsets of training images, each mimicking the few-shot setting. In each subset, one image serves as the query and the other(s) as support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Khoi Nguyen , Sinisa Todorovic

Meta-learning extracts common knowledge from learning different tasks and uses it for unseen tasks. It can significantly improve tasks that suffer from insufficient training data, e.g., few shot learning. In most meta-learning methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Lu Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Few-shot image classification consists of two consecutive learning processes: 1) In the meta-learning stage, the model acquires a knowledge base from a set of training classes. 2) During meta-testing, the acquired knowledge is used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ju He , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

Text classification tends to be difficult when data are deficient or when it is required to adapt to unseen classes. In such challenging scenarios, recent studies have often used meta-learning to simulate the few-shot task, thus negating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Zhanlin Sun , Jiaoyan Chen , Huajun Chen