English
Related papers

Related papers: Finding Significant Features for Few-Shot Learning…

200 papers

Currently, the state-of-the-art methods treat few-shot semantic segmentation task as a conditional foreground-background segmentation problem, assuming each class is independent. In this paper, we introduce the concept of meta-class, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhonghua Wu , Xiangxi Shi , Guosheng lin , Jianfei Cai

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

Many few-shot learning approaches have been designed under the meta-learning framework, which learns from a variety of learning tasks and generalizes to new tasks. These meta-learning approaches achieve the expected performance in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Yongchun Zhu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Xiangliang Zhang , Zhiyuan Qi , Zhiping Shi , Juan Cao , Qing He

Episodic training is a mainstream training strategy for few-shot learning. In few-shot scenarios, however, this strategy is often inferior to some non-episodic training strategy, e. g., Neighbourhood Component Analysis (NCA), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Tao Zhang

Industrial defect segmentation is critical for manufacturing quality control. Due to the scarcity of training defect samples, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) holds significant value in this field. However, existing studies mostly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tongkun Liu , Bing Li , Xiao Jin , Yupeng Shi , Qiuying Li , Xiang Wei

In the past few years, a considerable amount of research has been dedicated to the exploitation of previous learning experiences and the design of Few-shot and Meta Learning approaches, in problem domains ranging from Computer Vision to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Achkan Salehi , Alexandre Coninx , Stephane Doncieux

Deep neural networks are highly effective when a large number of labeled samples are available but fail with few-shot classification tasks. Recently, meta-learning methods have received much attention, which train a meta-learner on massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yucan Zhou , Yu Wang , Jianfei Cai , Yu Zhou , Qinghua Hu , Weiping Wang

Few shot learning is an important problem in machine learning as large labelled datasets take considerable time and effort to assemble. Most few-shot learning algorithms suffer from one of two limitations- they either require the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shakti Kumar , Hussain Zaidi

We consider a new problem of few-shot learning of compact models. Meta-learning is a popular approach for few-shot learning. Previous work in meta-learning typically assumes that the model architecture during meta-training is the same as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yong Wu , Shekhor Chanda , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

The ability to learn from a small number of examples has been a difficult problem in machine learning since its inception. While methods have succeeded with large amounts of training data, research has been underway in how to accomplish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Nathan Hilliard , Nathan O. Hodas , Courtney D. Corley

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 bioacoustic event detection is a task that detects the occurrence time of a novel sound given a few examples. Previous methods employ metric learning to build a latent space with the labeled part of different sound classes, also…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Haohe Liu , Xubo Liu , Xinhao Mei , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Reinforcement learning and planning methods require an objective or reward function that encodes the desired behavior. Yet, in practice, there is a wide range of scenarios where an objective is difficult to provide programmatically, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Annie Xie , Avi Singh , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Few-shot learning (FSL) techniques seek to learn the underlying patterns in data using fewer samples, analogous to how humans learn from limited experience. In this limited-data scenario, the challenges associated with deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Deepan Chakravarthi Padmanabhan , Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Deep learning becomes an elevated context regarding disposing of many machine learning tasks and has shown a breakthrough upliftment to extract features from unstructured data. Though this flourishing context is developing in the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jannatul Nayem , Sayed Sahriar Hasan , Noshin Amina , Bristy Das , Md Shahin Ali , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for few-shot learning, where a classifier must learn to recognise new classes given only few examples from each. Our method, called the Relation Network (RN), is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Timothy M. Hospedales

Few-shot dense retrieval (DR) aims to effectively generalize to novel search scenarios by learning a few samples. Despite its importance, there is little study on specialized datasets and standardized evaluation protocols. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Si Sun , Yida Lu , Shi Yu , Xiangyang Li , Zhonghua Li , Zhao Cao , Zhiyuan Liu , Deiming Ye , Jie Bao

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen-class objects given only a handful of densely labeled samples. Prototype learning, where the support feature yields a singleor several prototypes by averaging global and local object information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ehtesham Iqbal , Sirojbek Safarov , Seongdeok Bang

Few-shot classification is the task of predicting the category of an example from a set of few labeled examples. The number of labeled examples per category is called the number of shots (or shot number). Recent works tackle this task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Marc Law , Sanja Fidler

Few-shot learning systems for sound event recognition have gained interests since they require only a few examples to adapt to new target classes without fine-tuning. However, such systems have only been applied to chunks of sounds for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Kazuki Shimada , Yuichiro Koyama , Akira Inoue