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Few-shot learning is a technique to learn a model with a very small amount of labeled training data by transferring knowledge from relevant tasks. In this paper, we propose a few-shot learning method for wearable sensor based human activity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Siwei Feng , Marco F. Duarte

In task-based few-shot learning paradigms, it is commonly assumed that different tasks are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). However, in real-world scenarios, the distribution encountered in few-shot learning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiajun Chen , Hongpeng Yin , Yifu Yang

Fine-grained few-shot recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for novel categories.The network tends to overfit and does not generalize well to unseen classes due to insufficient training data. Many methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Mingzhen Huang , ShahRukh Athar , Dimitris Samaras

Conventional methods for object detection usually require substantial amounts of training data and annotated bounding boxes. If there are only a few training data and annotations, the object detectors easily overfit and fail to generalize.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Geonuk Kim , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

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

We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

Few-shot learning that trains image classifiers over few labeled examples per category is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to exploit an additional big dataset with different categories to improve the accuracy of few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Liangqu Long , Wei Wang , Jun Wen , Meihui Zhang , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi

The goal of few-shot learning is to classify unseen categories with few labeled samples. Recently, the low-level information metric-learning based methods have achieved satisfying performance, since local representations (LRs) are more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

The use of meta-learning and transfer learning in the task of few-shot image classification is a well researched area with many papers showcasing the advantages of transfer learning over meta-learning in cases where data is plentiful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Joshua Ball

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

Few-shot learning is devoted to training a model on few samples. Most of these approaches learn a model based on a pixel-level or global-level feature representation. However, using global features may lose local information, and using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Few-shot image classification learns to recognize new categories from limited labelled data. Metric learning based approaches have been widely investigated, where a query sample is classified by finding the nearest prototype from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen , Shih-Fu Chang

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for few-shot learning, where a classifier must learn to recognise new classes given only few examples from each. Our method, called the Relation Network (RN), is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Timothy M. Hospedales

Few-shot learning aims to recognize new categories using very few labeled samples. Although few-shot learning has witnessed promising development in recent years, most existing methods adopt an average operation to calculate prototypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Minglei Yuan , Wenhai Wang , Tao Wang , Chunhao Cai , Qian Xu , Tong Lu

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

While deep learning has been successfully applied to many real-world computer vision tasks, training robust classifiers usually requires a large amount of well-labeled data. However, the annotation is often expensive and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Zhiyu Xue , Lixin Duan , Wen Li , Lin Chen , Jiebo Luo

Few-shot classification consists of learning a predictive model that is able to effectively adapt to a new class, given only a few annotated samples. To solve this challenging problem, meta-learning has become a popular paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Meiyu Huang , Xueshuang Xiang , Yao Xu

In the few-shot scenario, a learner must effectively generalize to unseen classes given a small support set of labeled examples. While a relatively large amount of research has gone into few-shot learning for image classification, little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Chris Careaga , Brian Hutchinson , Nathan Hodas , Lawrence Phillips