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Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

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

Most existing multi-source domain adaptation (MSDA) methods minimize the distance between multiple source-target domain pairs via feature distribution alignment, an approach borrowed from the single source setting. However, with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhongying Deng , Kaiyang Zhou , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang

Few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically assume clean support sets with accurately labeled samples when training on novel classes. This assumption can often be unrealistic: support sets, no matter how small, can still include mislabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin J Liang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Vladan Petrovic , Tal Hassner

Cross-domain few-shot learning (CDFSL) aims to acquire knowledge from limited training data in the target domain by leveraging prior knowledge transferred from source domains with abundant training samples. CDFSL faces challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yixiong Zou , Yicong Liu , Yiman Hu , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Self-Explainable Models (SEMs) rely on Prototypical Concept Learning (PCL) to enable their visual recognition processes more interpretable, but they often struggle in data-scarce settings where insufficient training samples lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zhong Ji , Rongshuai Wei , Jingren Liu , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han

Learning discriminative representations for subtle localized details plays a significant role in Fine-grained Visual Categorization (FGVC). Compared to previous attention-based works, our work does not explicitly define or localize the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ranran Huang , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

Channel and spatial attentions have respectively brought significant improvements in extracting feature dependencies and spatial structure relations for various downstream vision tasks. While their combination is more beneficial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yunzhong Si , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu , Wenhao Zhang , Yao Dong , Yuxing Chen , Hongbo Li

We consider the problem of referring image segmentation. Given an input image and a natural language expression, the goal is to segment the object referred by the language expression in the image. Existing works in this area treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Linwei Ye , Mrigank Rochan , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Few-Shot Classification(FSC) aims to generalize from base classes to novel classes given very limited labeled samples, which is an important step on the path toward human-like machine learning. State-of-the-art solutions involve learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiongkun Linghu , Yan Bai , Yihang Lou , Shengsen Wu , Jinze Li , Jianzhong He , Tao Bai

Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) is a rapidly growing field in computer vision. It consists in finding all occurrences of a given set of classes with only a few annotated examples for each class. Numerous methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Pierre Le Jeune , Anissa Mokraoui

Few-shot learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

The goal of few-shot learning is to recognize new visual concepts with just a few amount of labeled samples in each class. Recent effective metric-based few-shot approaches employ neural networks to learn a feature similarity comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Meng Fang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (SF-CDFSL) focuses on fine-tuning with limited training data from target domains (e.g., medical or satellite images), where Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP and SigLIP have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenyu Zhang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li , Guangyao Chen

Due to the scarcity of sampling data in reality, few-shot object detection (FSOD) has drawn more and more attention because of its ability to quickly train new detection concepts with less data. However, there are still failure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zeyu Shangguan , Lian Huai , Tong Liu , Xingqun Jiang

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

Video-based person re-identification (ReID) is challenging due to the presence of various interferences in video frames. Recent approaches handle this problem using temporal aggregation strategies. In this work, we propose a novel Context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Kan Wang , Changxing Ding , Jianxin Pang , Xiangmin Xu

Large deep learning models are impressive, but they struggle when real-time data is not available. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) poses a significant challenge for deep neural networks to learn new tasks from just a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Songsong Tian , Lusi Li , Weijun Li , Hang Ran , Xin Ning , Prayag Tiwari

Traditional human vision-centric image compression methods are suboptimal for machine vision centric compression due to different visual properties and feature characteristics. To address this problem, we propose a Channel Importance-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yun Zhang , Junle Liu , Huan Zhang , Zhaoqing Pan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele