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We develop a transductive meta-learning method that uses unlabelled instances to improve few-shot image classification performance. Our approach combines a regularized Mahalanobis-distance-based soft k-means clustering procedure with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Frank Wood

In this paper, we present a new method, Transductive Multi-Head Few-Shot learning (TMHFS), to address the Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CD-FSL) challenge. The TMHFS method extends the Meta-Confidence Transduction (MCT) and Dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Jianan Jiang , Zhenpeng Li , Yuhong Guo , Jieping Ye

Few-shot learning aims to learn to generalize a classifier to novel classes with limited labeled data. Transductive inference that utilizes unlabeled test set to deal with low-data problem has been employed for few-shot learning in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Chenyang Si , Wentao Chen , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Human beings can recognize new objects with only a few labeled examples, however, few-shot learning remains a challenging problem for machine learning systems. Most previous algorithms in few-shot learning only utilize spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Xiangyu Chen , Guanghui Wang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Limeng Qiao , Yemin Shi , Jia Li , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Few-shot image classification aims to classify images from unseen novel classes with few samples. Recent works demonstrate that deep local descriptors exhibit enhanced representational capabilities compared to image-level features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qian Qiao , Yu Xie , Ziyin Zeng , Fanzhang Li

Transformer-based models have shown promising performance on tabular data compared to their classical counterparts such as neural networks and Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (GBDTs) in scenarios with limited training data. They utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pasan Dissanayake , Sanghamitra Dutta

This study aims to optimize the few-shot image classification task and improve the model's feature extraction and classification performance by combining self-supervised learning with the deep network model ResNet-101. During the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yuyang Xiao

In this thesis, we develop theoretical, algorithmic and experimental contributions for Machine Learning with limited labels, and more specifically for the tasks of Image Classification and Object Detection in Computer Vision. In a first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Quentin Bouniot

Effective image classification hinges on discerning relevant features from both foreground and background elements, with the foreground typically holding the critical information. While humans adeptly classify images with limited exposure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Weihao Jiang , Haoyang Cui , Kun He

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

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

Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Guneet S. Dhillon , Pratik Chaudhari , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

Single image-level annotations only correctly describe an often small subset of an image's content, particularly when complex real-world scenes are depicted. While this might be acceptable in many classification scenarios, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

Recently proposed few-shot image classification methods have generally focused on use cases where the objects to be classified are the central subject of images. Despite success on benchmark vision datasets aligned with this use case, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Elliott Skomski , Aaron Tuor , Andrew Avila , Lauren Phillips , Zachary New , Henry Kvinge , Courtney D. Corley , Nathan Hodas

Transductive few-shot learning algorithms have showed substantially superior performance over their inductive counterparts by leveraging the unlabeled queries. However, the vast majority of such methods are evaluated on perfectly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Michalis Lazarou , Yannis Avrithis , Tania Stathaki

Few-shot image classification aims to classify novel classes with few labeled samples. Recent research indicates that deep local descriptors have better representational capabilities. These studies recognize the impact of background noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qian Qiao , Yu Xie , Shaoyao Huang , Fanzhang Li

Proprietary and closed APIs are becoming increasingly common to process natural language, and are impacting the practical applications of natural language processing, including few-shot classification. Few-shot classification involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Victor Pellegrain , Malik Boudiaf , Victor Storchan , Myriam Tami , Ismail Ben Ayed , Celine Hudelot , Pablo Piantanida

Few-shot learning addresses the issue of classifying images using limited labeled data. Exploiting unlabeled data through the use of transductive inference methods such as label propagation has been shown to improve the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Michalis Lazarou , Yannis Avrithis , Guangyu Ren , Tania Stathaki