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Few-shot classification aims to recognize novel categories with only few labeled images in each class. Existing metric-based few-shot classification algorithms predict categories by comparing the feature embeddings of query images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Convolutional neural networks and supervised learning have achieved remarkable success in various fields but are limited by the need for large annotated datasets. Few-shot learning (FSL) addresses this limitation by enabling models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yang Liu , Feixiang Liu , Jiale Du , Xinbo Gao , Jungong Han

Learning to generate a task-aware base learner proves a promising direction to deal with few-shot learning (FSL) problem. Existing methods mainly focus on generating an embedding model utilized with a fixed metric (eg, cosine distance) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Lei Zhang , Fei Zhou , Wei Wei , Yanning Zhang

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a model that can recognize novel classes based on one or few training data. It is challenging mainly due to two aspects: (1) it lacks good feature representation of novel classes; (2) a few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Canyu Le , Zhonggui Chen , Xihan Wei , Biao Wang , Lei Zhang

Humans exhibit a remarkable ability to learn quickly from a limited number of labeled samples, a capability that starkly contrasts with that of current machine learning systems. Unsupervised Few-Shot Learning (U-FSL) seeks to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Few-shot image classification aims to accurately classify unlabeled images using only a few labeled samples. The state-of-the-art solutions are built by deep learning, which focuses on designing increasingly complex deep backbones.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Na Chen , Xianming Kuang , Feiyu Liu , Kehao Wang , Qun Chen

We introduce the integrative task of few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) that aims to both classify and segment target objects in a query image when the target classes are given with a few examples. This task combines two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is a dense prediction task that aims to infer the pixel-wise labels of unseen classes using only a limited number of annotated images. The key challenge in FSS is to classify the labels of query pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wenbo Xu , Huaxi Huang , Ming Cheng , Litao Yu , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

Few-Shot learning aims to train and optimize a model that can adapt to unseen visual classes with only a few labeled examples. The existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods, heavily rely only on visual data, thus fail to capture the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

Embedding learning (EL) and feature synthesizing (FS) are two of the popular categories of fine-grained GZSL methods. EL or FS using global features cannot discriminate fine details in the absence of local features. On the other hand, EL or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Tasfia Shermin , Shyh Wei Teng , Ferdous Sohel , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu

Few-shot learning (FSL) approaches are usually based on an assumption that the pre-trained knowledge can be obtained from base (seen) categories and can be well transferred to novel (unseen) categories. However, there is no guarantee,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Few-shot learning aims to train models that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few samples. Recently, a line of works are proposed to enhance few-shot learning with accessible semantic information from class names. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zihao Jiang , Yunkai Dang , Dong Pang , Huishuai Zhang , Weiran Huang

Metric learning aims to build a distance metric typically by learning an effective embedding function that maps similar objects into nearby points in its embedding space. Despite recent advances in deep metric learning, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Deunsol Jung , Dahyun Kang , Suha Kwak , Minsu Cho

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

Federated Learning (FL) is a widespread and well-adopted paradigm of decentralised learning that allows training one model from multiple sources without the need to transfer data between participating clients directly. Since its inception…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Maciej Krzysztof Zuziak , Roberto Pellungrini , Salvatore Rinzivillo

Few-shot learning remains a challenging problem, with unsatisfactory 1-shot accuracies for most real-world data. Here, we present a different perspective for data distributions in the feature space of a deep network and show how to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Joseph F Comer , Philip L Jacobson , Heiko Hoffmann

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel queries with only a few support samples through leveraging prior knowledge from a base dataset. In this paper, we consider the domain shift problem in FSL and aim to address the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wentao Chen , Zhang Zhang , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Few-shot image classification learns to recognize new categories from limited labelled data. Metric learning based approaches have been widely investigated, where a query sample is classified by finding the nearest prototype from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen , Shih-Fu Chang

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Encouraging progress has been made for FSS by leveraging semantic features learned from base classes with sufficient training samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zewen Zheng , Guoheng Huang , Xiaochen Yuan , Chi-Man Pun , Hongrui Liu , Wing-Kuen Ling