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Although extensive research has been conducted on 3D point cloud segmentation, effectively adapting generic models to novel categories remains a formidable challenge. This paper proposes a novel approach to improve point cloud few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhenhua Ning , Zhuotao Tian , Guangming Lu , Wenjie Pei

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen classes in query images with only a few annotated support images. Existing FSS algorithms typically focus on mining category representations from the single-view support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to form class-agnostic models segmenting unseen classes with only a handful of annotations. Previous methods limited to the semantic feature and prototype representation suffer from coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Bohao Peng , Zhuotao Tian , Xiaoyang Wu , Chengyao Wang , Shu Liu , Jingyong Su , Jiaya Jia

Motivated by the success of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) in promptable segmentation, recent studies leverage SAM to develop training-free solutions for few-shot segmentation, which aims to predict object masks in the target image based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Yun Xing , Wenbin An , Qingsong Zhao , Jiawei Shao , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu , Xuelong Li

Gaussian processes (GPs) are an important tool in machine learning and statistics with applications ranging from social and natural science through engineering. They constitute a powerful kernelized non-parametric method with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-20 Manuel Schürch , Dario Azzimonti , Alessio Benavoli , Marco Zaffalon

Few-shot dataset generalization is a challenging variant of the well-studied few-shot classification problem where a diverse training set of several datasets is given, for the purpose of training an adaptable model that can then learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Eleni Triantafillou , Hugo Larochelle , Richard Zemel , Vincent Dumoulin

Existing few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods mainly focus on designing novel support-query matching and self-matching mechanisms to exploit implicit knowledge in pre-trained backbones. However, the performance of these methods is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shijie Chang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Graph few-shot learning has attracted increasing attention due to its ability to rapidly adapt models to new tasks with only limited labeled nodes. Despite the remarkable progress made by existing graph few-shot learning methods, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yonghao Liu , Yajun Wang , Chunli Guo , Wei Pang , Ximing Li , Fausto Giunchiglia , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation aims to segment categories in data-scarce domains conditioned on a few exemplars. Typical methods first establish few-shot capability in a large-scale source domain and then adapt it to target domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Guanqiao Fu , Wenbin An , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu

Multi-robot systems require scalable and federated methods to model complex environments under computational and communication constraints. Gaussian Processes (GPs) offer robust probabilistic modeling, but suffer from cubic computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sanket A. Salunkhe , George P. Kontoudis

Conventional deep learning based methods for object detection require a large amount of bounding box annotations for training, which is expensive to obtain such high quality annotated data. Few-shot object detection, which learns to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Hanzhe Hu , Shuai Bai , Aoxue Li , Jinshi Cui , Liwei Wang

Deep neural networks enable highly accurate image segmentation, but require large amounts of manually annotated data for supervised training. Few-shot learning aims to address this shortcoming by learning a new class from a few annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Abhijit Guha Roy , Shayan Siddiqui , Sebastian Pölsterl , Nassir Navab , Christian Wachinger

Few-shot segmentation aims to train a segmentation model that can fast adapt to a novel task for which only a few annotated images are provided. Most recent models have adopted a prototype-based paradigm for few-shot inference. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Li Guo , Haoming Liu , Yuxuan Xia , Chengyu Zhang , Xiaochen Lu

This paper proposes a joint segmentation and deconvolution Bayesian method for medical ultrasound (US) images. Contrary to piecewise homogeneous images, US images exhibit heavy characteristic speckle patterns correlated with the tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Ningning Zhao , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouame , Jean-Yves Tourneret

Gaussian processes (GPs) are a powerful tool for probabilistic inference over functions. They have been applied to both regression and non-linear dimensionality reduction, and offer desirable properties such as uncertainty estimates,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-01 Yarin Gal , Mark van der Wilk , Carl E. Rasmussen

Recently, automated medical image segmentation methods based on deep learning have achieved great success. However, they heavily rely on large annotated datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. Few-shot learning aims to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiayu Huo , Ruiqiang Xiao , Haotian Zheng , Yang Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Rachel Sparks

Few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation aims to train a model to quickly adapt to new unseen classes with only a handful of support set samples. However, the noise-free assumption in the support set can be easily violated in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yating Xu , Na Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

Standard Gaussian Process (GP) regression, a powerful machine learning tool, is computationally expensive when it is applied to large datasets, and potentially inaccurate when data points are sparsely distributed in a high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Z. Zhang , K. Duraisamy , N. A. Gumerov

Few-shot segmentation~(FSS) performance has been extensively promoted by introducing episodic training and class-wise prototypes. However, the FSS problem remains challenging due to three limitations: (1) Models are distracted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jian-Wei Zhang , Lei Lv , Yawei Luo , Hao-Zhe Feng , Yi Yang , Wei 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