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Few-shot learners aim to recognize new categories given only a small number of training samples. The core challenge is to avoid overfitting to the limited data while ensuring good generalization to novel classes. Existing literature makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Aditya Bharti , N. B. Vineeth , C. V. Jawahar

Even though convolutional neural networks can classify objects in images very accurately, it is well known that the attention of the network may not always be on the semantically important regions of the scene. It has been observed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Maliha Arif , Calvin Yong , Abhijit Mahalanobis

Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition (FSOSR) targets a critical real-world challenge, aiming to categorize inputs into known categories, termed closed-set classes, while identifying open-set inputs that fall outside these classes. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Byeonggeun Kim , Juntae Lee , Kyuhong Shim , Simyung Chang

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize new concepts using a limited number of visual samples. Existing approaches attempt to incorporate semantic information into the limited visual data for category understanding. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mushui Liu , Fangtai Wu , Bozheng Li , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu , Xi Li

Most of the existing deep neural nets on automatic facial expression recognition focus on a set of predefined emotion classes, where the amount of training data has the biggest impact on performance. However, in the standard setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Anca-Nicoleta Ciubotaru , Arnout Devos , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Maria Gabrani

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

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

One fundamental challenge in building an instance segmentation model for a large number of classes in complex scenes is the lack of training examples, especially for rare objects. In this paper, we explore the possibility to increase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Cheng Zhang , Tai-Yu Pan , Tianle Chen , Jike Zhong , Wenjin Fu , Wei-Lun Chao

Recognizing multiple objects in an image is challenging due to occlusions, and becomes even more so when the objects are small. While promising, existing multi-label image recognition models do not explicitly learn context-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

This paper addresses the few-shot image classification problem, where the classification task is performed on unlabeled query samples given a small amount of labeled support samples only. One major challenge of the few-shot learning problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Cuong Q. Nguyen , Dung D. Le , Hieu H. Pham

Resembling the rapid learning capability of human, few-shot learning empowers vision systems to understand new concepts by training with few samples. Leading approaches derived from meta-learning on images with a single visual object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xiaopeng Yan , Ziliang Chen , Anni Xu , Xiaoxi Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is challenging due to extremely limited training data; while aiming to reduce catastrophic forgetting and learn new information. We propose Diffusion-FSCIL, a novel approach that employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junsu Kim , Yunhoe Ku , Seungryul Baek

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem that has attracted more and more attention recently since abundant training samples are difficult to obtain in practical applications. Meta-learning has been proposed to address this issue, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xian Zhong , Cheng Gu , Wenxin Huang , Lin Li , Shuqin Chen , Chia-Wen Lin

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) adapts models trained with large-scale general data (source domain) to downstream target domains with only scarce training data, where the research on vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) is still in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yaze Zhao , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Few-shot remote sensing image scene classification (FS-RSISC) aims at classifying remote sensing images with only a few labeled samples. The main challenges lie in small inter-class variances and large intra-class variances, which are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhong Ji , Liyuan Hou , Xuan Wang , Gang Wang , Yanwei Pang

Low-shot visual learning---the ability to recognize novel object categories from very few examples---is a hallmark of human visual intelligence. Existing machine learning approaches fail to generalize in the same way. To make progress on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Bharath Hariharan , Ross Girshick

Human beings can recognize new objects with only a few labeled examples, however, few-shot learning remains a challenging problem for machine learning systems. Most previous algorithms in few-shot learning only utilize spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Xiangyu Chen , Guanghui Wang

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

Conventional approaches to object instance re-identification rely on matching appearances of the target objects among a set of frames. However, learning appearances of the objects alone might fail when there are multiple objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Vaibhav Bansal , Stuart James , Alessio Del Bue

In self-supervised visual representation learning, a feature extractor is trained on a "pretext task" for which labels can be generated cheaply, without human annotation. A central challenge in this approach is that the feature extractor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Matthias Minderer , Olivier Bachem , Neil Houlsby , Michael Tschannen