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Few-shot object detection, the problem of modelling novel object detection categories with few training instances, is an emerging topic in the area of few-shot learning and object detection. Contemporary techniques can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Berkan Demirel , Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Few-shot action recognition aims to address the high cost and impracticality of manually labeling complex and variable video data in action recognition. It requires accurately classifying human actions in videos using only a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuyang Wanyan , Xiaoshan Yang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Detection of common events and scenes from audio is useful for extracting and understanding human contexts in daily life. Prior studies have shown that leveraging knowledge from a relevant domain is beneficial for a target acoustic event…

The lack of annotated medical images limits the performance of deep learning models, which usually need large-scale labelled datasets. Few-shot learning techniques can reduce data scarcity issues and enhance medical image analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Eva Pachetti , Sara Colantonio

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

State-of-the-art audio classification often employs a zero-shot approach, which involves comparing audio embeddings with embeddings from text describing the respective audio class. These embeddings are usually generated by neural networks…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 James Taylor , Wolfgang Mack

This paper proposes an active learning system for sound event detection (SED). It aims at maximizing the accuracy of a learned SED model with limited annotation effort. The proposed system analyzes an initially unlabeled audio dataset, from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Shuyang Zhao , Toni Heittola , Tuomas Virtanen

Few-shot classification is the task of predicting the category of an example from a set of few labeled examples. The number of labeled examples per category is called the number of shots (or shot number). Recent works tackle this task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Marc Law , Sanja Fidler

In recent years, self-supervised learning has excelled for its capacity to learn robust feature representations from unlabelled data. Networks pretrained through self-supervision serve as effective feature extractors for downstream tasks,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

State-of-the-art audio event detection (AED) systems rely on supervised learning using strongly labeled data. However, this dependence severely limits scalability to large-scale datasets where fine resolution annotations are too expensive…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Shao-Yen Tseng , Juncheng Li , Yun Wang , Joseph Szurley , Florian Metze , Samarjit Das

Few-shot classification refers to learning a classifier for new classes given only a few examples. While a plethora of models have emerged to tackle it, we find the procedure and datasets that are used to assess their progress lacking. To…

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from small numbers of examples. In contrast, supervised deep learning models usually lack the ability to extract reliable predictive rules from limited data scenarios when attempting to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhongjie Yu , Sebastian Raschka

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

Few-shot event detection (ED) has been widely studied, while this brings noticeable discrepancies, e.g., various motivations, tasks, and experimental settings, that hinder the understanding of models for future progress.This paper presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yubo Ma , Zehao Wang , Yixin Cao , Aixin Sun

Few-shot learning aims to recognize instances from novel classes with few labeled samples, which has great value in research and application. Although there has been a lot of work in this area recently, most of the existing work is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Congqi Cao , Yajuan Li , Qinyi Lv , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Audio recordings may provide important evidence in criminal investigations. One such case is the forensic association of a recorded audio to its recording location. For example, a voice message may be the only investigative cue to narrow…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Denise Moussa , Germans Hirsch , Christian Riess

In this paper, we explore meta-learning for few-shot text classification. Meta-learning has shown strong performance in computer vision, where low-level patterns are transferable across learning tasks. However, directly applying this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yujia Bao , Menghua Wu , Shiyu Chang , Regina Barzilay

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

In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of applying few-shot learning algorithms to a speech task. We formulate a user-defined scenario of spoken term classification as a few-shot learning problem. In most few-shot learning studies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yangbin Chen , Tom Ko , Lifeng Shang , Xiao Chen , Xin Jiang , Qing Li

We consider the problem of few-shot scene adaptive crowd counting. Given a target camera scene, our goal is to adapt a model to this specific scene with only a few labeled images of that scene. The solution to this problem has potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Mohammad Hossain , Mrigank Rochan , Yang Wang