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Accurate image classification given small amounts of labelled data (few-shot classification) remains an open problem in computer vision. In this work we examine how the known texture bias of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Sam Ringer , Will Williams , Tom Ash , Remi Francis , David MacLeod

Learning from one or few visual examples is one of the key capabilities of humans since early infancy, but is still a significant challenge for modern AI systems. While considerable progress has been achieved in few-shot learning from a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Eli Schwartz , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Raja Giryes , Alex M. Bronstein

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 image classification aims to learn an image classifier using only a small set of labeled examples per class. A recent research direction for improving few-shot classifiers involves augmenting the labelled samples with synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Victor G. Turrisi da Costa , Nicola Dall'Asen , Yiming Wang , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Few-shot classification studies the problem of quickly adapting a deep learner to understanding novel classes based on few support images. In this context, recent research efforts have been aimed at designing more and more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Qianru Sun

When data is unlabelled and the target task is not known a priori, divergent search offers a strategy for learning a wide range of skills. Having such a repertoire allows a system to adapt to new, unforeseen tasks. Unlabelled image data is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jeremy Tan , Bernhard Kainz

Few-shot action recognition aims to address the high cost and impracticality of manually labeling complex and variable video data in action recognition. It requires accurately classifying human actions in videos using only a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuyang Wanyan , Xiaoshan Yang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

While deep learning has been successfully applied to many real-world computer vision tasks, training robust classifiers usually requires a large amount of well-labeled data. However, the annotation is often expensive and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Zhiyu Xue , Lixin Duan , Wen Li , Lin Chen , Jiebo Luo

Currently available benchmarks for few-shot learning (machine learning with few training examples) are limited in the domains they cover, primarily focusing on image classification. This work aims to alleviate this reliance on image-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

We consider a novel formulation of the problem of Active Few-Shot Classification (AFSC) where the objective is to classify a small, initially unlabeled, dataset given a very restrained labeling budget. This problem can be seen as a rival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Aymane Abdali , Vincent Gripon , Lucas Drumetz , Bartosz Boguslawski

The FungiCLEF 2025 competition addresses the challenge of automatic fungal species recognition using realistic, field-collected observational data. Accurate identification tools support both mycologists and citizen scientists, greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Abdarahmane Traore , Éric Hervet , Andy Couturier

Unsupervised image-to-image translation methods learn to map images in a given class to an analogous image in a different class, drawing on unstructured (non-registered) datasets of images. While remarkably successful, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Ming-Yu Liu , Xun Huang , Arun Mallya , Tero Karras , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Jan Kautz

Accurate identification of fungi species presents a unique challenge in computer vision due to fine-grained inter-species variation and high intra-species variation. This paper presents our approach for the FungiCLEF 2025 competition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jason Kahei Tam , Murilo Gustineli , Anthony Miyaguchi

Few-shot semantic segmentation is the task of learning to locate each pixel of the novel class in the query image with only a few annotated support images. The current correlation-based methods construct pair-wise feature correlations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Huafeng Liu , Pai Peng , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao , Xian-Sheng Hua

Graph representation learning, a critical step in graph-centric tasks, has seen significant advancements. Earlier techniques often operate in an end-to-end setting, which heavily rely on the availability of ample labeled data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xingtong Yu , Yuan Fang , Zemin Liu , Yuxia Wu , Zhihao Wen , Jianyuan Bo , Xinming Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Despite the increasing popularity of the stance detection task, existing approaches are predominantly limited to using the textual content of social media posts for the classification, overlooking the social nature of the task. The stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) aims to adapt a pretrained model to new classes with as few as a single labelled training sample per class. Despite the prototype based approaches have achieved substantial success, existing models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Song Tang , Shaxu Yan , Xiaozhi Qi , Jianxin Gao , Mao Ye , Jianwei Zhang , Xiatian Zhu

Few-shot open-set recognition aims to classify both seen and novel images given only limited training data of seen classes. The challenge of this task is that the model is required not only to learn a discriminative classifier to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Nan Song , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin

Few-shot image classification is the task of classifying unseen images to one of N mutually exclusive classes, using only a small number of training examples for each class. The limited availability of these examples (denoted as K) presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hangfei Lin , Li Miao , Amir Ziai

Current fake image detectors trained on large synthetic image datasets perform satisfactorily on limited studied generative models. However, these detectors suffer a notable performance decline over unseen models. Besides, collecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shiyu Wu , Jing Liu , Jing Li , Yequan Wang