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Few-shot learning often involves metric learning-based classifiers, which predict the image label by comparing the distance between the extracted feature vector and class representations. However, applying global pooling in the backend of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Inyong Koo , Minki Jeong , Changick Kim

Deep networks can learn to accurately recognize objects of a category by training on a large number of annotated images. However, a meta-learning challenge known as a low-shot image recognition task comes when only a few images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Mengting Chen , Xinggang Wang , Heng Luo , Yifeng Geng , Wenyu Liu

In this paper, we extend the traditional few-shot learning (FSL) problem to the situation when the source-domain data is not accessible but only high-level information in the form of class prototypes is available. This limited information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Debasmit Das , J. H. Moon , C. S. George Lee

Few-shot Learning (FSL), which endeavors to develop the generalization ability for recognizing novel classes using only a few images, faces significant challenges due to data scarcity. Recent CLIP-like methods based on contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wei Zhuo , Runjie Luo , Wufeng Xue , Linlin Shen

The goal of few-shot learning is to recognize new visual concepts with just a few amount of labeled samples in each class. Recent effective metric-based few-shot approaches employ neural networks to learn a feature similarity comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Meng Fang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

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

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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…

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

In machine learning applications, it is common practice to feed as much information as possible. In most cases, the model can handle large data sets that allow to predict more accurately. In the presence of data scarcity, a Few-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Saad Bin Ahmed , Umaid M. Zaffar , Marium Aslam , Muhammad Imran Malik

Few-shot classification aims to adapt classifiers to novel classes with a few training samples. However, the insufficiency of training data may cause a biased estimation of feature distribution in a certain class. To alleviate this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jing Xu , Xinglin Pan , Xu Luo , Wenjie Pei , Zenglin Xu

Few-shot image classification aims at training a model from only a few examples for each of the "novel" classes. This paper proposes the idea of associative alignment for leveraging part of the base data by aligning the novel training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Xinwei Sun , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Few-shot image classification is challenging due to the lack of ample samples in each class. Such a challenge becomes even tougher when the number of classes is very large, i.e., the large-class few-shot scenario. In this novel scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Bingcong Li , Bo Han , Zhuowei Wang , Jing Jiang , Guodong Long

Few-shot deep learning is a topical challenge area for scaling visual recognition to open ended growth of unseen new classes with limited labeled examples. A promising approach is based on metric learning, which trains a deep embedding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xueting Zhang , Yuting Qiang , Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang