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In this paper, we look at the problem of few-shot classification that aims to learn a classifier for previously unseen classes and domains from few labeled samples. Recent methods use adaptation networks for aligning their features to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Wei-Hong Li , Xialei Liu , Hakan Bilen

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem due to the uncertainty caused by using few labelled samples. In the past few years, many methods have been proposed with the common aim of transferring knowledge acquired on a previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yuqing Hu , Vincent Gripon , Stéphane Pateux

Few-shot classification aims to recognize unlabeled samples from unseen classes given only few labeled samples. The unseen classes and low-data problem make few-shot classification very challenging. Many existing approaches extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on large, heterogeneous data sources are becoming increasingly popular, providing rich multi-modal embeddings that enable efficient transfer to new tasks. A particularly relevant application is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Ender Konukoglu

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

Distribution estimation has been demonstrated as one of the most effective approaches in dealing with few-shot image classification, as the low-level patterns and underlying representations can be easily transferred across different tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Han Liu , Feng Zhang , Xiaotong Zhang , Siyang Zhao , Fenglong Ma , Xiao-Ming Wu , Hongyang Chen , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang

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

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

Few-shot learning has recently attracted wide interest in image classification, but almost all the current public benchmarks are focused on natural images. The few-shot paradigm is highly relevant in medical-imaging applications due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Fereshteh Shakeri , Malik Boudiaf , Sina Mohammadi , Ivaxi Sheth , Mohammad Havaei , Ismail Ben Ayed , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Few-shot learning amounts to learning representations and acquiring knowledge such that novel tasks may be solved with both supervision and data being limited. Improved performance is possible by transductive inference, where the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki , Yannis Avrithis

Few-shot learning is challenging due to its very limited data and labels. Recent studies in big transfer (BiT) show that few-shot learning can greatly benefit from pretraining on large scale labeled dataset in a different domain. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Suichan Li , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

The conventional few-shot classification aims at learning a model on a large labeled base dataset and rapidly adapting to a target dataset that is from the same distribution as the base dataset. However, in practice, the base and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hao Zheng , Runqi Wang , Jianzhuang Liu , Asako Kanezaki

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Single image-level annotations only correctly describe an often small subset of an image's content, particularly when complex real-world scenes are depicted. While this might be acceptable in many classification scenarios, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

This paper presents a study on few-shot classification in the context of histopathology images. While few-shot learning has been studied for natural image classification, its application to histopathology is relatively unexplored. Given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ardhendu Sekhar , Ravi Kant Gupta , Amit Sethi

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

Difficult few-shot image recognition has significant application prospects, yet remaining the substantial technical gaps with the conventional large-scale image recognition. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient original method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaofei Qi , Zhitai Liu , Jianbin Qiu

In task-based few-shot learning paradigms, it is commonly assumed that different tasks are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.). However, in real-world scenarios, the distribution encountered in few-shot learning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiajun Chen , Hongpeng Yin , Yifu Yang