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We study the few-shot learning (FSL) problem, where a model learns to recognize new objects with extremely few labeled training data per category. Most of previous FSL approaches resort to the meta-learning paradigm, where the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

Learning from limited exemplars (few-shot learning) is a fundamental, unsolved problem that has been laboriously explored in the machine learning community. However, current few-shot learners are mostly supervised and rely heavily on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zilong Ji , Xiaolong Zou , Tiejun Huang , Si Wu

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Few-shot classification (FSC) is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training data (e.g. only one labeled data point per class). Meta-learning has shown to achieve promising results by learning to initialize a classification model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xinzhe Li , Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Shibao Zheng , Qin Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Fine-grained image classification involves identifying different subcategories of a class which possess very subtle discriminatory features. Fine-grained datasets usually provide bounding box annotations along with class labels to aid the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Farha Al Breiki , Muhammad Ridzuan , Rushali Grandhe

When labeled training data is scarce, a promising data augmentation approach is to generate visual features of unknown classes using their attributes. To learn the class conditional distribution of CNN features, these models rely on pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yongqin Xian , Saurabh Sharma , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

The majority of existing few-shot learning methods describe image relations with binary labels. However, such binary relations are insufficient to teach the network complicated real-world relations, due to the lack of decision smoothness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hongguang Zhang , Piotr Koniusz , Songlei Jian , Hongdong Li , Philip H. S. Torr

One-shot learning focuses on adapting pretrained models to recognize newly introduced and unseen classes based on a single labeled image. While variations of few-shot and zero-shot learning exist, one-shot learning remains a challenging yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyle Stein , Andrew A. Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Few-shot learning is an interesting and challenging study, which enables machines to learn from few samples like humans. Existing studies rarely exploit auxiliary information from large amount of unlabeled data. Self-supervised learning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hainan Li , Renshuai Tao , Jun Li , Haotong Qin , Yifu Ding , Shuo Wang , Xianglong Liu

In recent years, image classification, as a core task in computer vision, relies on high-quality labelled data, which restricts the wide application of deep learning models in practical scenarios. To alleviate the problem of insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiyu Hu , Haijiang Zeng , Zhen Tian

In the last few years, unpaired image-to-image translation has witnessed remarkable progress. Although the latest methods are able to generate realistic images, they crucially rely on a large number of labeled images. Recently, some methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yaxing Wang , Salman Khan , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

We present a novel self-supervised learning approach for conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) under a semi-supervised setting. Unlike prior self-supervised approaches which often involve geometric augmentations on the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jiaze Sun , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

In this paper, we explore the use of GAN-based few-shot data augmentation as a method to improve few-shot classification performance. We perform an exploration into how a GAN can be fine-tuned for such a task (one of which is in a…

We address the problem of segmenting 3D multi-modal medical images in scenarios where very few labeled examples are available for training. Leveraging the recent success of adversarial learning for semi-supervised segmentation, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for cross-domain image-to-image translation have made much progress recently. Depending on the task complexity, thousands to millions of labeled image pairs are needed to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Zili Yi , Hao Zhang , Ping Tan , Minglun Gong

Few-shot or one-shot learning of classifiers requires a significant inductive bias towards the type of task to be learned. One way to acquire this is by meta-learning on tasks similar to the target task. In this paper, we propose UMTRA, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Siavash Khodadadeh , Ladislau Bölöni , Mubarak Shah

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Despite impressive progress in deep learning, generalizing far beyond the training distribution is an important open challenge. In this work, we consider few-shot classification, and aim to shed light on what makes some novel classes easier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mengye Ren , Eleni Triantafillou , Kuan-Chieh Wang , James Lucas , Jake Snell , Xaq Pitkow , Andreas S. Tolias , Richard Zemel

Few-shot open-set recognition aims to classify both seen and novel images given only limited training data of seen classes. The challenge of this task is that the model is required not only to learn a discriminative classifier to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Nan Song , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin