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Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) endeavors to segment unseen classes with only a few labeled samples. Current FSS methods are commonly built on the assumption that their training and application scenarios share similar domains, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weizhao He , Yang Zhang , Wei Zhuo , Linlin Shen , Jiaqi Yang , Songhe Deng , Liang Sun

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) models achieve strong performance in segmenting novel classes with minimal labeled examples, yet their decision-making processes remain largely opaque. While explainable AI has advanced significantly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pasquale De Marinis , Uzay Kaymak , Rogier Brussee , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Contrastive learning produces coherent semantic feature embeddings by encouraging positive samples to cluster closely while separating negative samples. However, existing contrastive learning methods lack principled guarantees on coverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yahya Alkhatib , Wee Peng Tay

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques to simple transfer learning baselines. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reda Bensaid , Vincent Gripon , François Leduc-Primeau , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection (CD-FSOD) aims to detect novel classes in unseen target domains given only a few labeled examples. While open-vocabulary detectors built on vision-language models (VLMs) transfer well, they depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wanqi Wang , Jingcai Guo , Yuxiang Cai , Zhi Chen

Domain adaptive semantic segmentation aims to generate accurate and dense predictions for an unlabeled target domain by leveraging a supervised model trained on a labeled source domain. The prevalent self-training approach involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Nazanin Moradinasab , Laura S. Shankman , Rebecca A. Deaton , Gary K. Owens , Donald E. Brown

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recently, the field of few-shot detection within remote sensing imagery has witnessed significant advancements. Despite these progresses, the capacity for continuous conceptual learning still poses a significant challenge to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wuzhou Li , Jiawei Zhou , Xiang Li , Yi Cao , Guang Jin , Xuemin Zhang

Existing few-shot segmentation methods have achieved great progress based on the support-query matching framework. But they still heavily suffer from the limited coverage of intra-class variations from the few-shot supports provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Qi Fan , Wenjie Pei , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Despite its empirical success, the theoretical foundations of self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) are not yet fully established. In this work, we address this gap by showing that standard CL objectives implicitly approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Achleshwar Luthra , Tianbao Yang , Tomer Galanti

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Cross-Domain Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to train generalized models that can segment classes from different domains with a few labeled images. Previous works have proven the effectiveness of feature transformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiayi Chen , Rong Quan , Jie Qin

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

This paper investigates a new challenging problem called defensive few-shot learning in order to learn a robust few-shot model against adversarial attacks. Simply applying the existing adversarial defense methods to few-shot learning cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Wenbin Li , Lei Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Lei Qi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

Standard few-shot relation classification (RC) is designed to learn a robust classifier with only few labeled data for each class. However, previous works rarely investigate the effects of a different number of classes (i.e., $N$-way) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hongru Wang , Zhijing Jin , Jiarun Cao , Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung , Kam-Fai Wong

In visual recognition tasks, few-shot learning requires the ability to learn object categories with few support examples. Its re-popularity in light of the deep learning development is mainly in image classification. This work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Miao Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Li Li

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect objects using only a few examples. How to adapt state-of-the-art object detectors to the few-shot domain remains challenging. Object proposal is a key ingredient in modern object detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Guangxing Han , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Yicheng He , Shih-Fu Chang

Learning from a limited amount of data, namely Few-Shot Learning, stands out as a challenging computer vision task. Several works exploit semantics and design complicated semantic fusion mechanisms to compensate for rare representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hai Zhang , Junzhe Xu , Shanlin Jiang , Zhenan He

In this work, we focus on a more challenging few-shot intent detection scenario where many intents are fine-grained and semantically similar. We present a simple yet effective few-shot intent detection schema via contrastive pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jianguo Zhang , Trung Bui , Seunghyun Yoon , Xiang Chen , Zhiwei Liu , Congying Xia , Quan Hung Tran , Walter Chang , Philip Yu

Few-shot learning methods offer pre-training techniques optimized for easier later adaptation of the model to new classes (unseen during training) using one or a few examples. This adaptivity to unseen classes is especially important for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Guy Bukchin , Eli Schwartz , Kate Saenko , Ori Shahar , Rogerio Feris , Raja Giryes , Leonid Karlinsky