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In this article, we consider the problem of few-shot learning for classification. We assume a network trained for base categories with a large number of training examples, and we aim to add novel categories to it that have only a few, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

The objective of Few-shot learning is to fully leverage the limited data resources for exploring the latent correlations within the data by applying algorithms and training a model with outstanding performance that can adequately meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Wenqing Zhao , Guojia Xie , Han Pan , Biao Yang , Weichuan Zhang

Few-shot semantic segmentation is vital for deep learning-based infrastructure inspection applications, where labeled training examples are scarce and expensive. Although existing deep learning frameworks perform well, the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Christina Thrainer , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Christian Guetl , Steven Sloan , Kendall N. Niles , Ken Pathak

We propose Sym-Net, a novel framework for Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) that addresses the critical issue of intra-class variation by jointly learning both query and support prototypes in a symmetrical manner. Unlike previous methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Qun Li , Baoquan Sun , Fu Xiao , Yonggang Qi , Bir Bhanu

Few-shot classification aims to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled examples. To fully use the accessible data, recent methods explore suitable measures for the similarity between the query and support images and better high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Kaihui Cheng , Chule Yang , Xiao Liu , Naiyang Guan , Zhiyuan Wang

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

In modern agriculture, precise monitoring of plants and fruits is crucial for tasks such as high-throughput phenotyping and automated harvesting. This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing accurate 3D shapes of fruits from partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zhi Chen , Tianqi Wei , Zecheng Zhao , Jia Syuen Lim , Yadan Luo , Hu Zhang , Xin Yu , Scott Chapman , Zi Huang

To address the annotation scarcity issue in some cases of semantic segmentation, there have been a few attempts to develop the segmentation model in the few-shot learning paradigm. However, most existing methods only focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Pinzhuo Tian , Zhangkai Wu , Lei Qi , Lei Wang , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) aims to adapt a pretrained model to new classes with as few as a single labelled training sample per class. Despite the prototype based approaches have achieved substantial success, existing models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Song Tang , Shaxu Yan , Xiaozhi Qi , Jianxin Gao , Mao Ye , Jianwei Zhang , Xiatian Zhu

Segmenting images is critical for visual understanding but demands extensive pixel-level annotations. Foundational models have enabled new paradigms for predicting new classes guided by textual prompts, without annotations from the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Gabriele Rosi , Fabio Cermelli , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

We tackle a novel few-shot learning challenge, which we call few-shot semantic edge detection, aiming to localize crisp boundaries of novel categories using only a few labeled samples. We also present a Class-Agnostic Few-shot Edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Young-Hyun Park , Jun Seo , Jaekyun Moon

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods perform image segmentation for a particular object class in a target (query) image, using a small set of (support) image-mask pairs. Recent deep neural network based FSS methods leverage high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siddhartha Gairola , Mayur Hemani , Ayush Chopra , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Few-shot segmentation aims to devise a generalizing model that segments query images from unseen classes during training with the guidance of a few support images whose class tally with the class of the query. There exist two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Alper Kayabaşı , Gülin Tüfekci , İlkay Ulusoy

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel concepts by leveraging prior knowledge learned from a few samples. However, for visually intensive tasks such as few-shot semantic segmentation, pixel-level annotations are time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiaqi Ma , Guo-Sen Xie , Fang Zhao , Zechao Li

Accurate classification and anatomical localization are essential for effective medical diagnostics and research, which may be efficiently performed using deep learning techniques. However, availability of limited labeled data poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mohammed Abdul Hafeez Khan , Samuel Morries Boddepalli , Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , Debasis Mitra

Few-shot learning is a challenging task, which aims to learn a classifier for novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based meta-learning methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Zhichao Huang , Lisai Zhang

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation addresses the challenge of segmenting objects in query images with only a handful of annotated examples. However, many previous state-of-the-art methods either have to discard intricate local semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohammad Reza Jahed Motlagh

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 segmentation is challenging because objects within the support and query images could significantly differ in appearance and pose. Using a single prototype acquired directly from the support image to segment the query image causes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Boyu Yang , Chang Liu , Bohao Li , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Few-shot segmentation is a challenging task that aims to segment objects of new classes given scarce support images. In the inductive setting, existing prototype-based methods focus on extracting prototypes from the support images; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jinlu Liu , Liang Song , Yongqiang Qin