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The human visual system has the remarkably ability to be able to effortlessly learn novel concepts from only a few examples. Mimicking the same behavior on machine learning vision systems is an interesting and very challenging research…

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Meta-learning aims at learning quickly on novel tasks with limited data by transferring generic experience learned from previous tasks. Naturally, few-shot learning has been one of the most popular applications for meta-learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yudong Chen , Chaoyu Guan , Zhikun Wei , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu

The field of visual few-shot classification aims at transferring the state-of-the-art performance of deep learning visual systems onto tasks where only a very limited number of training samples are available. The main solution consists in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yassir Bendou , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel queries with limited support samples by learning from base knowledge. Recent progress in this setting assumes that the base knowledge and novel query samples are distributed in the same domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yifan Zhao , Tong Zhang , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

Few-shot recognition learns a recognition model with very few (e.g., 1 or 5) images per category, and current few-shot learning methods focus on improving the average accuracy over many episodes. We argue that in real-world applications we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Minghao Fu , Yun-Hao Cao , Jianxin Wu

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes from a few examples. Although significant progress has been made in the image domain, few-shot video classification is relatively unexplored. We argue that previous methods underestimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yongqin Xian , Bruno Korbar , Matthijs Douze , Lorenzo Torresani , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Few-shot classification (FSC) is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training data (e.g. only one labeled data point per class). Meta-learning has shown to achieve promising results by learning to initialize a classification model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xinzhe Li , Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Shibao Zheng , Qin Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Existing methods based on meta-learning predict novel-class labels for (target domain) testing tasks via meta knowledge learned from (source domain) training tasks of base classes. However, most existing works may fail to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yanxu Hu , Andy J. Ma

The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Zhongjie Yu , Lin Chen , Zhongwei Cheng , Jiebo Luo

Conventional training of deep neural networks usually requires a substantial amount of data with expensive human annotations. In this paper, we utilize the idea of meta-learning to explain two very different streams of few-shot learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Shaobo Lin , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao

This work provides a framework for addressing the problem of supervised domain adaptation with deep models. The main idea is to exploit adversarial learning to learn an embedded subspace that simultaneously maximizes the confusion between…

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The aim of few-shot learning (FSL) is to learn how to recognize image categories from a small number of training examples. A central challenge is that the available training examples are normally insufficient to determine which visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

The goal of few-shot learning is to recognize new visual concepts with just a few amount of labeled samples in each class. Recent effective metric-based few-shot approaches employ neural networks to learn a feature similarity comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Meng Fang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Recent progress on few-shot learning largely relies on annotated data for meta-learning: base classes sampled from the same domain as the novel classes. However, in many applications, collecting data for meta-learning is infeasible or…

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Few-shot object detection, learning to adapt to the novel classes with a few labeled data, is an imperative and long-lasting problem due to the inherent long-tail distribution of real-world data and the urgent demands to cut costs of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Leng Jiaxu , Chen Taiyue , Gao Xinbo , Yu Yongtao , Wang Ye , Gao Feng , Wang Yue

We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

Few-shot classification aims to learn a classifier to recognize unseen classes during training, where the learned model can easily become over-fitted based on the biased distribution formed by only a few training examples. A recent solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dandan Guo , Long Tian , He Zhao , Mingyuan Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

Conventional training of a deep CNN based object detector demands a large number of bounding box annotations, which may be unavailable for rare categories. In this work we develop a few-shot object detector that can learn to detect novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Bingyi Kang , Zhuang Liu , Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Jiashi Feng , Trevor Darrell

While the traditional formulation of machine learning tasks is in terms of performance on average, in practice we are often interested in how well a trained model performs on rare or difficult data points at test time. To achieve more…

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