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The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Instance segmentation aims to detect and segment individual objects in a scene. Most existing methods rely on precise mask annotations of every category. However, it is difficult and costly to segment objects in novel categories because a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Weicheng Kuo , Anelia Angelova , Jitendra Malik , Tsung-Yi Lin

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation addresses the challenge of segmenting objects in query images with only a handful of annotated examples. However, many previous state-of-the-art methods either have to discard intricate local semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Mohammad Reza Jahed Motlagh

In industrial equipment monitoring, fault diagnosis is critical for ensuring system reliability and enabling predictive maintenance. However, the scarcity of fault data, due to the rarity of fault events and the high cost of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yi Xu , Zhigang Chen , Rui Wang , Yangfan Li , Fengxiao Tang , Ming Zhao , Jiaqi Liu

Training a generative model with limited number of samples is a challenging task. Current methods primarily rely on few-shot model adaption to train the network. However, in scenarios where data is extremely limited (less than 10), the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Liang Liu , Ran Yi , Siqi Kou , Haokun Zhu , Xu Chen , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

In surgical procedures, correct instrument counting is essential. Instance segmentation is a location method that locates not only an object's bounding box but also each pixel's specific details. However, obtaining mask-level annotations is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zhen Sun , Huan Xu , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Chen , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu

Instance segmentation is a promising yet challenging topic in computer vision. Recent approaches such as Mask R-CNN typically divide this problem into two parts -- a detection component and a mask generation branch, and mostly focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shichao Xu , Shuyue Lan , Qi Zhu

We present self-speculative masked diffusions, a new class of masked diffusion generative models for discrete data that require significantly fewer function evaluations to generate samples. Standard masked diffusion models predict…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 Andrew Campbell , Valentin De Bortoli , Jiaxin Shi , Arnaud Doucet

Denoising diffusion models have found applications in image segmentation by generating segmented masks conditioned on images. Existing studies predominantly focus on adjusting model architecture or improving inference, such as test-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Yunguan Fu , Yiwen Li , Shaheer U Saeed , Matthew J Clarkson , Yipeng Hu

Spurious features associated with class labels can lead image classifiers to rely on shortcuts that don't generalize well to new domains. This is especially problematic in medical settings, where biased models fail when applied to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Qixuan Jin , Walter Gerych , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Weakly-supervised instance segmentation, which could greatly save labor and time cost of pixel mask annotation, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The commonly used pipeline firstly utilizes conventional image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Shisha Liao , Yongqing Sun , Chenqiang Gao , Pranav Shenoy K P , Song Mu , Jun Shimamura , Atsushi Sagata

Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu Zhang , Xingzhuo Guo , Haoran Xu , Jialong Wu , Mingsheng Long

Anomaly detection is a critical task in industrial manufacturing, aiming to identify defective parts of products. Most industrial anomaly detection methods assume the availability of sufficient normal data for training. This assumption may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhenyu Yan , Qingqing Fang , Wenxi Lv , Qinliang Su

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect novel instances with only a limited number of labeled training samples, presenting a challenge that is particularly prominent in numerous remote sensing applications such as endangered species…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Yanxing Liu , Jiancheng Pan , Jianwei Yang , Tiancheng Chen , Peiling Zhou , Bingchen Zhang

Instance segmentation requires a large number of training samples to achieve satisfactory performance and benefits from proper data augmentation. To enlarge the training set and increase the diversity, previous methods have investigated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Hao-Shu Fang , Jianhua Sun , Runzhong Wang , Minghao Gou , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Few shot learning is an important problem in machine learning as large labelled datasets take considerable time and effort to assemble. Most few-shot learning algorithms suffer from one of two limitations- they either require the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shakti Kumar , Hussain Zaidi

Few Shot Segmentation aims to segment novel object classes given only a handful of labeled examples, enabling rapid adaptation with minimal supervision. Current literature crucially lacks a selection method that goes beyond visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Nico Catalano , Stefano Samele , Paolo Pertino , Matteo Matteucci

A key challenge with procedure planning in instructional videos lies in how to handle a large decision space consisting of a multitude of action types that belong to various tasks. To understand real-world video content, an AI agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Fen Fang , Yun Liu , Ali Koksal , Qianli Xu , Joo-Hwee Lim

In this work, we tackle the problem of instance segmentation, the task of simultaneously solving object detection and semantic segmentation. Towards this goal, we present a model, called MaskLab, which produces three outputs: box detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Liang-Chieh Chen , Alexander Hermans , George Papandreou , Florian Schroff , Peng Wang , Hartwig Adam

This paper introduces a probabilistic framework for k-shot image classification. The goal is to generalise from an initial large-scale classification task to a separate task comprising new classes and small numbers of examples. The new…