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Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tong Shen , Guosheng Lin , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Recent papers have suggested that transfer learning can outperform sophisticated meta-learning methods for few-shot image classification. We take this hypothesis to its logical conclusion, and suggest the use of an ensemble of high-quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Arkabandhu Chowdhury , Mingchao Jiang , Swarat Chaudhuri , Chris Jermaine

In this paper we reformulate few-shot classification as a reconstruction problem in latent space. The ability of the network to reconstruct a query feature map from support features of a given class predicts membership of the query in that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Davis Wertheimer , Luming Tang , Bharath Hariharan

Despite the success of deep learning methods for semantic segmentation, few-shot semantic segmentation remains a challenging task due to the limited training data and the generalisation requirement for unseen classes. While recent progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Yiwen Li , Gratianus Wesley Putra Data , Yunguan Fu , Yipeng Hu , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

The category gap between training and evaluation has been characterised as one of the main obstacles to the success of Few-Shot Learning (FSL). In this paper, we for the first time empirically identify image background, common in realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xu Luo , Longhui Wei , Liangjian Wen , Jinrong Yang , Lingxi Xie , Zenglin Xu , Qi Tian

Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to learn class-agnostic segmentation on few classes to segment arbitrary classes, but at the risk of overfitting. To address this, some methods use the well-learned knowledge of foundation models (e.g., SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Qianxiong Xu , Lanyun Zhu , Xuanyi Liu , Guosheng Lin , Cheng Long , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable versatility and zero-shot learning abilities, owing largely to its extensive training data (SA-1B). Recognizing SAM's dependency on manual guidance given its category-agnostic nature, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiyu Qi , Yifan Wu , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Zhang , Yidan Zhang

Few-shot segmentation has garnered significant attention. Many recent approaches attempt to introduce the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to handle this task. With the strong generalization ability and rich object-specific extraction ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jin Wang , Bingfeng Zhang , Jian Pang , Weifeng Liu , Baodi Liu , Honglong Chen

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Camouflaged object detection and segmentation is a new and challenging research topic in computer vision. There is a serious issue of lacking data on concealed objects such as camouflaged animals in natural scenes. In this paper, we address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Thanh-Danh Nguyen , Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Thanh-Toan Do , Minh-Triet Tran , Tam V. Nguyen

State-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods require sufficient labeled data to achieve good results and hardly work on unseen classes without fine-tuning. Few-shot segmentation is thus proposed to tackle this problem by learning a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zhuotao Tian , Hengshuang Zhao , Michelle Shu , Zhicheng Yang , Ruiyu Li , Jiaya Jia

Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Few-shot semantic segmentation models aim to segment images after learning from only a few annotated examples. A key challenge for them is how to avoid overfitting because limited training data is available. While prior works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

Few-shot action recognition aims to recognize action classes with few training samples. Most existing methods adopt a meta-learning approach with episodic training. In each episode, the few samples in a meta-training task are split into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiatian Zhu , Antoine Toisoul , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Li Zhang , Brais Martinez , Tao Xiang

The use of pretrained deep neural networks represents an attractive way to achieve strong results with few data available. When specialized in dense problems such as object detection, learning local rather than global information in images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Quentin Bouniot , Romaric Audigier , Angélique Loesch , Amaury Habrard

While deep learning has been successfully applied to many real-world computer vision tasks, training robust classifiers usually requires a large amount of well-labeled data. However, the annotation is often expensive and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Zhiyu Xue , Lixin Duan , Wen Li , Lin Chen , Jiebo Luo

When data is unlabelled and the target task is not known a priori, divergent search offers a strategy for learning a wide range of skills. Having such a repertoire allows a system to adapt to new, unforeseen tasks. Unlabelled image data is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jeremy Tan , Bernhard Kainz

Few-shot detection is a major task in pattern recognition which seeks to localize objects using models trained with few labeled data. One of the mainstream few-shot methods is transfer learning which consists in pretraining a detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jie Mei , Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi , Xiaoheng Jiang , Mingliang Xu

One-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment query images given only ONE annotated support image of the same class. This task is challenging because target objects in the support and query images can be largely different in appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hanjing Zhou , Mingze Yin , Danny Chen , Jian Wu , JinTai Chen

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect never-seen objects using few examples. This field sees recent improvement owing to the meta-learning techniques by learning how to match between the query image and few-shot class examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Guangxing Han , Yicheng He , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Shih-Fu Chang