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We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

We present a novel method for proposal free instance segmentation that can handle sophisticated object shapes which span large parts of an image and form dense object clusters with crossovers. Our method is based on predicting dense local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Peter Hirsch , Lisa Mais , Dagmar Kainmueller

Few-shot learning is a fundamental task in computer vision that carries the promise of alleviating the need for exhaustively labeled data. Most few-shot learning approaches to date have focused on progressively more complex neural feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Peyman Bateni , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Frank Wood , Leonid Sigal

Deep learning has revolutionized object detection thanks to large-scale datasets, but their object categories are still arguably very limited. In this paper, we attempt to enrich such categories by addressing the one-shot object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Xiang Li , Lin Zhang , Yau Pun Chen , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Object detection has been dominated by anchor-based detectors for several years. Recently, anchor-free detectors have become popular due to the proposal of FPN and Focal Loss. In this paper, we first point out that the essential difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shifeng Zhang , Cheng Chi , Yongqiang Yao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

In this work, we address the challenging task of few-shot segmentation. Previous few-shot segmentation methods mainly employ the information of support images as guidance for query image segmentation. Although some works propose to build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weide Liu , Zhonghua Wu , Henghui Ding , Fayao Liu , Jie Lin , Guosheng Lin , Wei Zhou

Low-shot object counting addresses estimating the number of previously unobserved objects in an image using only few or no annotated test-time exemplars. A considerable challenge for modern low-shot counters are dense regions with small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Grega Šuštar , Jer Pelhan , Alan Lukežič , Matej Kristan

Conventional detection networks usually need abundant labeled training samples, while humans can learn new concepts incrementally with just a few examples. This paper focuses on a more challenging but realistic class-incremental few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Pengyang Li , Yanan Li , Han Cui , Donghui Wang

Recently, the field of few-shot detection within remote sensing imagery has witnessed significant advancements. Despite these progresses, the capacity for continuous conceptual learning still poses a significant challenge to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wuzhou Li , Jiawei Zhou , Xiang Li , Yi Cao , Guang Jin , Xuemin Zhang

In many applications, we are constrained to learn classifiers from very limited data (few-shot classification). The task becomes even more challenging if it is also required to identify samples from unknown categories (open-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sayak Nag , Dripta S. Raychaudhuri , Sujoy Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

In robotics applications, few-shot segmentation is crucial because it allows robots to perform complex tasks with minimal training data, facilitating their adaptation to diverse, real-world environments. However, pixel-level annotations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Florent Chiaroni , Ali Ayub , Ola Ahmad

Instance segmentation is a fundamental vision task that aims to recognize and segment each object in an image. However, it requires costly annotations such as bounding boxes and segmentation masks for learning. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xinlong Wang , Zhiding Yu , Shalini De Mello , Jan Kautz , Anima Anandkumar , Chunhua Shen , Jose M. Alvarez

Few-shot classification consists of a training phase where a model is learned on a relatively large dataset and an adaptation phase where the learned model is adapted to previously-unseen tasks with limited labeled samples. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xu Luo , Hao Wu , Ji Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jing Xu , Jingkuan Song

Despite the great progress made by deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation, they typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen object categories. Few-shot segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Kaixin Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Yingtian Zou , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

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

Few-shot learning aims to recognize new categories using very few labeled samples. Although few-shot learning has witnessed promising development in recent years, most existing methods adopt an average operation to calculate prototypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Minglei Yuan , Wenhai Wang , Tao Wang , Chunhao Cai , Qian Xu , Tong Lu

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Most state-of-the-art instance-level human parsing models adopt two-stage anchor-based detectors and, therefore, cannot avoid the heuristic anchor box design and the lack of analysis on a pixel level. To address these two issues, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Sanyi Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Guo-Jun Qi , Zhanjie Song , Jie Zhou

Few-shot object detection aims to detect instances of specific categories in a query image with only a handful of support samples. Although this takes less effort than obtaining enough annotated images for supervised object detection, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hojun Lee , Myunggi Lee , Nojun Kwak