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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

As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang

Learning from a few examples is an important practical aspect of training classifiers. Various works have examined this aspect quite well. However, all existing approaches assume that the few examples provided are always correctly labeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to generate a classifier using limited labeled examples. Many existing works take the meta-learning approach, constructing a few-shot learner that can learn from few-shot examples to generate a classifier.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Ming , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

Few-shot learning is a central problem in meta-learning, where learners must quickly adapt to new tasks given limited training data. Recently, feature pre-training has become a ubiquitous component in state-of-the-art meta-learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ruohan Wang , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for tackling few-shot tasks. However, recent studies indicate that models trained with the whole-class training strategy can achieve comparable performance to those trained with meta-learning in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunchuan Guan , Yu Liu , Ke Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Serge Belongie , Lei Li

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Thanks to the availability of powerful computing resources, big data and deep learning algorithms, we have made great progress on computer vision in the last few years. Computer vision systems begin to surpass humans in some tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Fupin Yao

The aim of few-shot learning (FSL) is to learn how to recognize image categories from a small number of training examples. A central challenge is that the available training examples are normally insufficient to determine which visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Named Entity Recognition (NER) frequently suffers from the problem of insufficient labeled data, particularly in fine-grained NER scenarios. Although $K$-shot learning techniques can be applied, their performance tends to saturate when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Su Ah Lee , Seokjin Oh , Woohwan Jung

Existing text classification methods mainly focus on a fixed label set, whereas many real-world applications require extending to new fine-grained classes as the number of samples per label increases. To accommodate such requirements, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Dheeraj Mekala , Varun Gangal , Jingbo Shang

Fine-grained visual classification aims to recognize objects belonging to many subordinate categories of a supercategory, where appearance alone often fails to distinguish highly similar classes. We propose a unified framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sumit Mamtani , Yash Thesia

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eva Pachetti , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Sara Colantonio

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Few-Shot learning aims to train and optimize a model that can adapt to unseen visual classes with only a few labeled examples. The existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods, heavily rely only on visual data, thus fail to capture the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

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

Currently available benchmarks for few-shot learning (machine learning with few training examples) are limited in the domains they cover, primarily focusing on image classification. This work aims to alleviate this reliance on image-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

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

Even with the luxury of having abundant data, multi-label classification is widely known to be a challenging task to address. This work targets the problem of multi-label meta-learning, where a model learns to predict multiple labels within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

Few-shot classification studies the problem of quickly adapting a deep learner to understanding novel classes based on few support images. In this context, recent research efforts have been aimed at designing more and more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Qianru Sun