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Segment Anything Models (SAMs), as vision foundation models, have demonstrated remarkable performance across various image analysis tasks. Despite their strong generalization capabilities, SAMs encounter challenges in fine-grained detail…

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Few-shot learning allows machines to classify novel classes using only a few labeled samples. Recently, few-shot segmentation aiming at semantic segmentation on low sample data has also seen great interest. In this paper, we propose a…

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Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) has recently made notable progress through set matching and efficient adaptation of large-scale pre-trained models. However, two key limitations persist. First, existing set matching metrics typically rely…

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The research on recognizing the most discriminative regions provides referential information for weakly supervised object localization with only image-level annotations. However, the most discriminative regions usually conceal the other…

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The demand for lightweight models in image classification tasks under resource-constrained environments necessitates a balance between computational efficiency and robust feature representation. Traditional attention mechanisms, despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhenkai Qin , Feng Zhu , Huan Zeng , Xunyi Nong

Few-shot learning problem focuses on recognizing unseen classes given a few labeled images. In recent effort, more attention is paid to fine-grained feature embedding, ignoring the relationship among different distance metrics. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Yuxi Li , Zihui Jia , Xiaochen Chen , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Wei Zhang , Yuan Xie , Chengjie Wang

We introduce Transductive Infomation Maximization (TIM) for few-shot learning. Our method maximizes the mutual information between the query features and their label predictions for a given few-shot task, in conjunction with a supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Malik Boudiaf , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Jérôme Rony , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed , Pablo Piantanida

Few-shot learning is an important area of research. Conceptually, humans are readily able to understand new concepts given just a few examples, while in more pragmatic terms, limited-example training situations are common in practice.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Hongyang Li , David Eigen , Samuel Dodge , Matthew Zeiler , Xiaogang Wang

Recently, foundation models trained on massive datasets to adapt to a wide range of tasks have attracted considerable attention and are actively being explored within the computer vision community. Among these, the Segment Anything Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hyung-Il Kim , Kimin Yun , Jun-Seok Yun , Yuseok Bae

Multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm focuses on jointly learning two or more tasks, aiming for significant improvement w.r.t model's generalizability, performance, and training/inference memory footprint. The aforementioned benefits become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Nitin Bansal , Pan Ji , Junsong Yuan , Yi Xu

In the research field of few-shot learning, the main difference between image-based and video-based is the additional temporal dimension. In recent years, some works have used the Transformer to deal with frames, then get the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Fei Guo , Li Zhu , YiWang Wang , Jing Sun

Few-shot object detection has made substantial progressby representing novel class objects using the feature representation learned upon a set of base class objects. However,an implicit contradiction between novel class classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Bohao Li , Boyu Yang , Chang Liu , Feng Liu , Rongrong Ji , Qixiang Ye

Few-shot learning, which aims at extracting new concepts rapidly from extremely few examples of novel classes, has been featured into the meta-learning paradigm recently. Yet, the key challenge of how to learn a generalizable classifier…

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The past decade has witnessed significant progress on detecting objects in aerial images that are often distributed with large scale variations and arbitrary orientations. However most of existing methods rely on heuristically defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jiaming Han , Jian Ding , Jie Li , Gui-Song Xia

Existing studies in weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) have utilized class activation maps (CAMs) to localize the class objects. However, since a classification loss is insufficient for providing precise object regions, CAMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sung-Hoon Yoon , Hyeokjun Kweon , Jaeseok Jeong , Hyeonseong Kim , Shinjeong Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

In recent years, we have seen tremendous progress in the field of object detection. Most of the recent improvements have been achieved by targeting deeper feedforward networks. However, many hard object categories such as bottle, remote,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Abhinav Shrivastava , Rahul Sukthankar , Jitendra Malik , Abhinav Gupta

Deep neural networks are highly effective when a large number of labeled samples are available but fail with few-shot classification tasks. Recently, meta-learning methods have received much attention, which train a meta-learner on massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yucan Zhou , Yu Wang , Jianfei Cai , Yu Zhou , Qinghua Hu , Weiping Wang

Few-shot segmentation has garnered significant attention. Many recent approaches attempt to introduce the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to handle this task. With the strong generalization ability and rich object-specific extraction ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jin Wang , Bingfeng Zhang , Jian Pang , Weifeng Liu , Baodi Liu , Honglong Chen

A number of studies on lung nodule classification lack clinical/biological interpretations of the features extracted by convolutional neural network (CNN). The methods like class activation mapping (CAM) and gradient-based CAM (Grad-CAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yiming Lei , Yukun Tian , Hongming Shan , Junping Zhang , Ge Wang , Mannudeep Kalra

Fine-grained object classification is a challenging task due to the subtle inter-class difference and large intra-class variation. Recently, visual attention models have been applied to automatically localize the discriminative regions of…

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