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In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

This paper proposes a multi-layer neural network structure for few-shot image recognition of novel categories. The proposed multi-layer neural network architecture encodes transferable knowledge extracted from a large annotated dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Debasmit Das , C. S. George Lee

Few-shot learning aims to learn novel categories from very few samples given some base categories with sufficient training samples. The main challenge of this task is the novel categories are prone to dominated by color, texture, shape of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Riquan Chen , Tianshui Chen , Xiaolu Hui , Hefeng Wu , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

To perform well, most deep learning based image classification systems require large amounts of data and computing resources. These constraints make it difficult to quickly personalize to individual users or train models outside of fairly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Nat Roth , Justin Wagle

In many practical few-shot learning problems, even though labeled examples are scarce, there are abundant auxiliary datasets that potentially contain useful information. We propose the problem of extended few-shot learning to study these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Reza Esfandiarpoor , Amy Pu , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Stephen H. Bach

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Low-shot learning methods for image classification support learning from sparse data. We extend these techniques to support dense semantic image segmentation. Specifically, we train a network that, given a small set of annotated images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amirreza Shaban , Shray Bansal , Zhen Liu , Irfan Essa , Byron Boots

Two of the most common tasks in medical imaging are classification and segmentation. Either task requires labeled data annotated by experts, which is scarce and expensive to collect. Annotating data for segmentation is generally considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ozan Ciga , Anne L. Martel

Learning from limited data is challenging because data scarcity leads to a poor generalization of the trained model. A classical global pooled representation will probably lose useful local information. Many few-shot learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Few-shot learning is a promising way for reducing the label cost in new categories adaptation with the guidance of a small, well labeled support set. But for few-shot semantic segmentation, the pixel-level annotations of support images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jing Wang , Yuang Liu , Qiang Zhou , Fan Wang

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

Significant progress has been made recently in developing few-shot object segmentation methods. Learning is shown to be successful in few-shot segmentation settings, using pixel-level, scribbles and bounding box supervision. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

Adverse drug events are a significant source of preventable harm, which has led to the development of automated pill recognition systems to enhance medication safety. Real-world deployment of these systems is hindered by visually complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 W. I. Chu , G. Tarroni , L. Li

Real-world contains an overwhelmingly large number of object classes, learning all of which at once is infeasible. Few shot learning is a promising learning paradigm due to its ability to learn out of order distributions quickly with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Learning from a few examples is an important practical aspect of training classifiers. Various works have examined this aspect quite well. However, all existing approaches assume that the few examples provided are always correctly labeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Semantic segmentation tasks based on weakly supervised condition have been put forward to achieve a lightweight labeling process. For simple images that only include a few categories, researches based on image-level annotations have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Sheng Yi , Yanxian Chen

Despite the ample availability of graph data, obtaining vertex labels is a tedious and expensive task. Therefore, it is desirable to learn from a few labeled vertices only. Existing few-shot learners assume a class oracle, which provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Felix Burr , Marcel Hoffmann , Ansgar Scherp

Few-shot object detection aims to detect instances of specific categories in a query image with only a handful of support samples. Although this takes less effort than obtaining enough annotated images for supervised object detection, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hojun Lee , Myunggi Lee , Nojun Kwak

This paper tackles the problem of few-shot learning, which aims to learn new visual concepts from a few examples. A common problem setting in few-shot classification assumes random sampling strategy in acquiring data labels, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shipeng Yan , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Distribution estimation has been demonstrated as one of the most effective approaches in dealing with few-shot image classification, as the low-level patterns and underlying representations can be easily transferred across different tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Han Liu , Feng Zhang , Xiaotong Zhang , Siyang Zhao , Fenglong Ma , Xiao-Ming Wu , Hongyang Chen , Hong Yu , Xianchao Zhang