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Few-shot image classification, where the goal is to generalize to tasks with limited labeled data, has seen great progress over the years. However, the classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a question regarding their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

Learning from set-structured data is a fundamental problem that has recently attracted increasing attention, where a series of summary networks are introduced to deal with the set input. In fact, many meta-learning problems can be treated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Dandan Guo , Long Tian , Minghe Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

Cross-domain few-shot classification induces a much more challenging problem than its in-domain counterpart due to the existence of domain shifts between the training and test tasks. In this paper, we develop a novel Adaptive Parametric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Marzi Heidari , Abdullah Alchihabi , Qing En , Yuhong Guo

Few-shot image classification requires the classifier to robustly cope with unseen classes even if there are only a few samples for each class. Recent advances benefit from the meta-learning process where episodic tasks are formed to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Da Chen , Yongliang Yang , Zunlei Feng , Xiang Wu , Mingli Song , Wenbin Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Feng Mao

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Bowen Zhou

Graph representation learning, a critical step in graph-centric tasks, has seen significant advancements. Earlier techniques often operate in an end-to-end setting, which heavily rely on the availability of ample labeled data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xingtong Yu , Yuan Fang , Zemin Liu , Yuxia Wu , Zhihao Wen , Jianyuan Bo , Xinming Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Few-shot learning is a relatively new technique that specializes in problems where we have little amounts of data. The goal of these methods is to classify categories that have not been seen before with just a handful of samples. Recent…

Few-shot image classification remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training examples. Augmenting them with synthetic data has emerged as a promising way to alleviate this issue, but models trained on synthetic samples often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lan-Cuong Nguyen , Quan Nguyen-Tri , Bang Tran Khanh , Dung D. Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Khoat Than

Few-shot learning (FSL) is popular due to its ability to adapt to novel classes. Compared with inductive few-shot learning, transductive models typically perform better as they leverage all samples of the query set. The two existing classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Real-world scenarios are usually accompanied by continuously appearing classes with scare labeled samples, which require the machine learning model to incrementally learn new classes and maintain the knowledge of base classes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qi-Wei Wang , Da-Wei Zhou , Yi-Kai Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Few-shot class incremental learning implies the model to learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned classes with a small number of training instances. Existing frameworks typically freeze the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Parinita Nema , Vinod K Kurmi

Viewpoint estimation for known categories of objects has been improved significantly thanks to deep networks and large datasets, but generalization to unknown categories is still very challenging. With an aim towards improving performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Hung-Yu Tseng , Shalini De Mello , Jonathan Tremblay , Sifei Liu , Stan Birchfield , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

While developments in machine learning led to impressive performance gains on big data, many human subjects data are, in actuality, small and sparsely labeled. Existing methods applied to such data often do not easily generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Julie Jiang , Kristina Lerman , Emilio Ferrara

Novel classes frequently arise in our dynamically changing world, e.g., new users in the authentication system, and a machine learning model should recognize new classes without forgetting old ones. This scenario becomes more challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Da-Wei Zhou , Fu-Yun Wang , Han-Jia Ye , Liang Ma , Shiliang Pu , De-Chuan Zhan

Conventional training of a deep CNN based object detector demands a large number of bounding box annotations, which may be unavailable for rare categories. In this work we develop a few-shot object detector that can learn to detect novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Bingyi Kang , Zhuang Liu , Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Jiashi Feng , Trevor Darrell

Semantic segmentation models have two fundamental weaknesses: i) they require large training sets with costly pixel-level annotations, and ii) they have a static output space, constrained to the classes of the training set. Toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Yongqin Xian , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo