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Single-frame Infrared Small Target Detection (ISTD) aims to localize weak targets under heavy background clutter, yet dense pixel-wise annotations are expensive. Point supervision with online label evolution reduces annotation cost;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuanhang Yao , Ping Qian , Zhu Liu , Long Ma , Weimin Wang

Graph few-shot learning, which aims to classify nodes from novel classes with only a few labeled examples, is a widely studied problem in graph learning. However, existing methods often face two key limitations. First, the predominant graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Renchu Guan , Yajun Wang , Chunli Guo , Bowen Cao , Fausto Giunchiglia , Wei Pang , Yonghao Liu , Xiaoyue Feng

Nucleus instance segmentation from histopathology images suffers from the extremely laborious and expert-dependent annotation of nucleus instances. As a promising solution to this task, annotation-efficient deep learning paradigms have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ming , Zihao Wu , Jie Yang , Danyi Li , Yuan Gao , Changxin Gao , Gui-Song Xia , Yuanqing Li , Li Liang , Jin-Gang Yu

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) identifies objects from extremely few annotated samples. Most existing FSOD methods, recently, apply the two-stage learning paradigm, which transfers the knowledge learned from abundant base classes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhimeng Xin , Tianxu Wu , Shiming Chen , Yixiong Zou , Ling Shao , Xinge You

Learning with limited data is a key challenge for visual recognition. Many few-shot learning methods address this challenge by learning an instance embedding function from seen classes and apply the function to instances from unseen classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan , Fei Sha

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to expand an object detector for novel categories given only a few instances for training. However, detecting novel categories with only a few samples usually leads to the problem of misclassification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Shaobo Lin , Kun Wang , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao

Privacy and memory are two recurring themes in a broad conversation about the societal impact of AI. These concerns arise from the need for huge amounts of data to train deep neural networks. A promise of Generalized Few-shot Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Karim Guirguis , Johannes Meier , George Eskandar , Matthias Kayser , Bin Yang , Juergen Beyerer

Infrared small target detection faces the problem that it is difficult to effectively separate the background and the target. Existing deep learning-based methods focus on edge and shape features, but ignore the richer structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu , Xinyi Ying , Yimian Dai

Based on multiple instance detection networks (MIDN), plenty of works have contributed tremendous efforts to weakly supervised object detection (WSOD). However, most methods neglect the fact that the overwhelming negative instances exist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 M. Chen , Y. Tian , Z. Li , E. Li , Z. Liang

Detecting rare objects from a few examples is an emerging problem. Prior works show meta-learning is a promising approach. But, fine-tuning techniques have drawn scant attention. We find that fine-tuning only the last layer of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xin Wang , Thomas E. Huang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Fisher Yu

Cross-domain object detection is challenging, and it involves aligning labeled source and unlabeled target domains. Previous approaches have used adversarial training to align features at both image-level and instance-level. At the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Onkar Krishna , Hiroki Ohashi , Saptarshi Sinha

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has addressed challenging real-world scenarios where unseen novel classes continually arrive with few samples. In these scenarios, it is required to develop a model that recognizes the novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Few-shot learning has recently emerged as a new challenge in the deep learning field: unlike conventional methods that train the deep neural networks (DNNs) with a large number of labeled data, it asks for the generalization of DNNs on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yukuan Yang , Fangyun Wei , Miaojing Shi , Guoqi Li

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning it through the nearest centroid based meta-learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Shanshan Feng

We introduce SONO, a novel method leveraging Second-Order Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Second-Order NODEs) to enhance cross-modal few-shot learning. By employing a simple yet effective architecture consisting of a Second-Order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yi Zhang , Chun-Wun Cheng , Junyi He , Zhihai He , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Yuyan Chen , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is proposed to segment unknown class targets with just a few annotated samples. Most current FSS methods follow the paradigm of mining the semantics from the support images to guide the query image segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Zhiyuan Yan , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Diao , Hongqi Wang , Xian Sun

Few-shot object detection, the problem of modelling novel object detection categories with few training instances, is an emerging topic in the area of few-shot learning and object detection. Contemporary techniques can be divided into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Berkan Demirel , Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) models attempt to leverage image-level annotations in lieu of accurate but costly-to-obtain object localization labels. This oftentimes leads to substandard object detection and localization at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yuting Wang , Ricardo Guerrero , Vladimir Pavlovic

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang