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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

Few-shot classification aims to learn to classify new object categories well using only a few labeled examples. Transferring feature representations from other models is a popular approach for solving few-shot classification problems. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chun-Nam Yu , Yi Xie

The representations of the Earth's surface vary from one geographic region to another. For instance, the appearance of urban areas differs between continents, and seasonality influences the appearance of vegetation. To capture the diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Marc Rußwurm , Sherrie Wang , Marco Körner , David Lobell

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

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Bowen Zhou

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…

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

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

As a concrete application of multi-view learning, multi-view classification improves the traditional classification methods significantly by integrating various views optimally. Although most of the previous efforts have been demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jinglin Xu , Wenbin Li , Jiantao Shen , Xinwang Liu , Peicheng Zhou , Xiangsen Zhang , Xiwen Yao , Junwei Han

We present a new approach, called meta-meta classification, to learning in small-data settings. In this approach, one uses a large set of learning problems to design an ensemble of learners, where each learner has high bias and low variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Arkabandhu Chowdhury , Dipak Chaudhari , Swarat Chaudhuri , Chris Jermaine

We aim to bridge the gap between typical human and machine-learning environments by extending the standard framework of few-shot learning to an online, continual setting. In this setting, episodes do not have separate training and testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Mengye Ren , Michael L. Iuzzolino , Michael C. Mozer , Richard S. Zemel

Few-shot segmentation focuses on the generalization of models to segment unseen object instances with limited training samples. Although tremendous improvements have been achieved, existing methods are still constrained by two factors. (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xianghui Yang , Bairun Wang , Kaige Chen , Xinchi Zhou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang , Luping Zhou

The majority of existing few-shot learning methods describe image relations with binary labels. However, such binary relations are insufficient to teach the network complicated real-world relations, due to the lack of decision smoothness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hongguang Zhang , Piotr Koniusz , Songlei Jian , Hongdong Li , Philip H. S. Torr

We consider the problem of few-shot spoken word classification in a setting where a model is incrementally introduced to new word classes. This would occur in a user-defined keyword system where new words can be added as the system is used.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ruan van der Merwe , Herman Kamper

Most existing studies on few-shot learning focus on unimodal settings, where models are trained to generalize to unseen data using a limited amount of labeled examples from a single modality. However, real-world data are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhengwei Yang , Yuke Li , Qiang Sun , Basura Fernando , Heng Huang , Zheng Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on natural image and language data, such as CLIP, have exhibited significant potential in few-shot image recognition tasks, leading to development of various efficient transfer learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Dexia Chen , Wentao Zhang , Qianjie Zhu , Ping Hu , Weibing Li , Tong Zhang , Ruixuan Wang

We present a novel Balanced Incremental Model Agnostic Meta Learning system (BI-MAML) for learning multiple tasks. Our method implements a meta-update rule to incrementally adapt its model to new tasks without forgetting old tasks. Such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yang Zheng , Jinlin Xiang , Kun Su , Eli Shlizerman

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

In recent years, few-shot action recognition has attracted increasing attention. It generally adopts the paradigm of meta-learning. In this field, overcoming the overlapping distribution of classes and outliers is still a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fei Guo , YiKang Wang , Han Qi , WenPing Jin , Li Zhu

Few-shot learning that trains image classifiers over few labeled examples per category is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose to exploit an additional big dataset with different categories to improve the accuracy of few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Liangqu Long , Wei Wang , Jun Wen , Meihui Zhang , Qian Lin , Beng Chin Ooi