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This paper proposes a novel model for recognizing images with composite attribute-object concepts, notably for composite concepts that are unseen during model training. We aim to explore the three key properties required by the task ---…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ziwei Xu , Guangzhi Wang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

In this work, we address the challenging task of few-shot segmentation. Previous few-shot segmentation methods mainly employ the information of support images as guidance for query image segmentation. Although some works propose to build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weide Liu , Zhonghua Wu , Henghui Ding , Fayao Liu , Jie Lin , Guosheng Lin , Wei Zhou

Open-set few-shot image classification aims to train models using a small amount of labeled data, enabling them to achieve good generalization when confronted with unknown environments. Existing methods mainly use visual information from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Kexuan Shi , Zhuang Qi , Jingjing Zhu , Lei Meng , Yaochen Zhang , Haibei Huang , Xiangxu Meng

Emerging interests have been brought to recognize previously unseen objects given very few training examples, known as few-shot object detection (FSOD). Recent researches demonstrate that good feature embedding is the key to reach favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Bo Sun , Banghuai Li , Shengcai Cai , Ye Yuan , Chi Zhang

Few-shot class-incremental learning is to recognize the new classes given few samples and not forget the old classes. It is a challenging task since representation optimization and prototype reorganization can only be achieved under little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Kai Zhu , Yang Cao , Wei Zhai , Jie Cheng , Zheng-Jun Zha

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect never-seen objects using few examples. This field sees recent improvement owing to the meta-learning techniques by learning how to match between the query image and few-shot class examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Guangxing Han , Yicheng He , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Shih-Fu Chang

Conventional deep learning based methods for object detection require a large amount of bounding box annotations for training, which is expensive to obtain such high quality annotated data. Few-shot object detection, which learns to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Hanzhe Hu , Shuai Bai , Aoxue Li , Jinshi Cui , Liwei Wang

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

Few-shot object detection has gained significant attention in recent years as it has the potential to greatly reduce the reliance on large amounts of manually annotated bounding boxes. While most existing few-shot object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Sueyeon Kim , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

Most recent few-shot learning (FSL) methods are based on meta-learning with episodic training. In each meta-training episode, a discriminative feature embedding and/or classifier are first constructed from a support set in an inner loop,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yizhao Gao , Nanyi Fei , Guangzhen Liu , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Songfang Huang

Few-shot medical image segmentation has achieved great progress in improving accuracy and efficiency of medical analysis in the biomedical imaging field. However, most existing methods cannot explore inter-class relations among base and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yumin Zhang , Hongliu Li , Yajun Gao , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Yefeng Zheng

Few-shot image classification has received considerable attention for overcoming the challenge of limited classification performance with limited samples in novel classes. Most existing works employ sophisticated learning strategies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Meijuan Su , Feihong He , Fanzhang Li

Few-shot classification requires deep neural networks to learn generalized representations only from limited training images, which is challenging but significant in low-data regimes. Recently, CLIP-based methods have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Renrui Zhang , Bohao Li , Wei Zhang , Hao Dong , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao

Few-shot segmentation targets to segment new classes with few annotated images provided. It is more challenging than traditional semantic segmentation tasks that segment known classes with abundant annotated images. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jinlu Liu , Yongqiang Qin

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park

Few-shot Open-set Object Detection (FOOD) poses a challenge in many open-world scenarios. It aims to train an open-set detector to detect known objects while rejecting unknowns with scarce training samples. Existing FOOD methods are subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhaowei Wu , Binyi Su , Qichuan Geng , Hua Zhang , Zhong Zhou

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on image-level labels has attracted much attention due to low annotation costs. Existing methods often rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) that measures the correlation between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qi Chen , Lingxiao Yang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Detecting rare objects from a few examples is an emerging problem. Prior works show meta-learning is a promising approach. But, fine-tuning techniques have drawn scant attention. We find that fine-tuning only the last layer of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xin Wang , Thomas E. Huang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Fisher Yu

Few-shot classification which aims to recognize unseen classes using very limited samples has attracted more and more attention. Usually, it is formulated as a metric learning problem. The core issue of few-shot classification is how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xixi Wang , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang , Bin Luo

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