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Open-set few-shot image classification aims to train models using a small amount of labeled data, enabling them to achieve good generalization when confronted with unknown environments. Existing methods mainly use visual information from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Kexuan Shi , Zhuang Qi , Jingjing Zhu , Lei Meng , Yaochen Zhang , Haibei Huang , Xiangxu Meng

Detecting novel objects from few examples has become an emerging topic in computer vision recently. However, these methods need fully annotated training images to learn new object categories which limits their applicability in real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Amirreza Shaban , Amir Rahimi , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Byron Boots , Richard Hartley

Existing few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods mainly focus on prototype feature generation and the query-support matching mechanism. As a crucial prompt for generating prototype features, the pair of image-mask types in the support set has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Shijie Chang , Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to segment novel categories using a minimal number of annotated support samples. While existing prototype-based methods have shown promise, they are constrained by two critical challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Qianguang Zhao , Dongli Wang , Yan Zhou , Jianxun Li , Richard Irampa

Online Multiple Target Tracking (MTT) is often addressed within the tracking-by-detection paradigm. Detections are previously extracted independently in each frame and then objects trajectories are built by maximizing specifically designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Francesco Solera , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lubin Weng , Zhouchen Lin , Shiming Xiang

The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Traditional shape descriptors have been gradually replaced by convolutional neural networks due to their superior performance in feature extraction and classification. The state-of-the-art methods recognize object shapes via image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Wenlong Shi , Changsheng Lu , Ming Shao , Yinjie Zhang , Siyu Xia , Piotr Koniusz

Open-set few-shot hyperspectral image (HSI) classification aims to classify image pixels by using few labeled pixels per class, where the pixels to be classified may be not all from the classes that have been seen. To address the open-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Chun Liu , Chen Zhang , Zhuo Li , Zheng Li , Wei Yang

Visual language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) have shown impressive performance in analyzing natural images with language information. However, these models often encounter challenges when applied to specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiaqing Zhang , Mingxiang Cao , Xue Yang , Kai Jiang , Yunsong Li

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 image classification learns to recognize new categories from limited labelled data. Metric learning based approaches have been widely investigated, where a query sample is classified by finding the nearest prototype from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen , Shih-Fu Chang

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

Few-shot point cloud segmentation seeks to generate per-point masks for previously unseen categories, using only a minimal set of annotated point clouds as reference. Existing prototype-based methods rely on support prototypes to guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jie Liu , Wenzhe Yin , Haochen Wang , Yunlu CHen , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Image segmentation, one of the most critical vision tasks, has been studied for many years. Most of the early algorithms are unsupervised methods, which use hand-crafted features to divide the image into many regions. Recently, owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qinghong Lin , Weichan Zhong , Jianglin Lu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models. Existing methods mostly focus on regular entangled representations to discriminate in-distribution (ID) and OOD data, neglecting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Boyang Dai , Chaoqi Chen , Yizhou Yu

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Proxy-based metric learning losses are superior to pair-based losses due to their fast convergence and low training complexity. However, existing proxy-based losses focus on learning class-discriminative features while overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhibo Yang , Muhammet Bastan , Xinliang Zhu , Doug Gray , Dimitris Samaras

Prototypical networks have been shown to perform well at few-shot learning tasks in computer vision. Yet these networks struggle when classes are very similar to each other (fine-grain classification) and currently have no way of taking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bijan Haney , Alexander Lavin

Few-shot classification requires deep neural networks to learn generalized representations only from limited training images, which is challenging but significant in low-data regimes. Recently, CLIP-based methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Renrui Zhang , Bohao Li , Wei Zhang , Hao Dong , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao