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Few-shot segmentation is a task to segment objects or regions of novel classes within an image given only a few annotated examples. In the generalized setting, the task extends to segment both the base and the novel classes. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Hagai Raja Sinulingga

Few-shot relation extraction with none-of-the-above (FsRE with NOTA) aims at predicting labels in few-shot scenarios with unknown classes. FsRE with NOTA is more challenging than the conventional few-shot relation extraction task, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Tianlin Guo , Lingling Zhang , Jiaxin Wang , Yuokuo Lei , Yifei Li , Haofen Wang , Jun Liu

This paper revisits few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation (FS-PCS), with a focus on two significant issues in the state-of-the-art: foreground leakage and sparse point distribution. The former arises from non-uniform point sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Fayao Liu , Zongwei Wu , Dan Wang , Luc Van Gool , Serge Belongie

In this paper, we explore contrastive learning for few-shot classification, in which we propose to use it as an additional auxiliary training objective acting as a data-dependent regularizer to promote more general and transferable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods usually assume base classes and novel classes are from the same domain (in-domain setting). However, in practice, it may be infeasible to collect sufficient training samples for some special domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , JianPeng Yu , Yonghong Tian , José M. F. Moura

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes from a few examples. Although significant progress has been made in the image domain, few-shot video classification is relatively unexplored. We argue that previous methods underestimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yongqin Xian , Bruno Korbar , Matthijs Douze , Lorenzo Torresani , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize new concepts using a limited number of visual samples. Existing approaches attempt to incorporate semantic information into the limited visual data for category understanding. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mushui Liu , Fangtai Wu , Bozheng Li , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu , Xi Li

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 text classification has recently been promoted by the meta-learning paradigm which aims to identify target classes with knowledge transferred from source classes with sets of small tasks named episodes. Despite their success,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang

Object recognition in the real-world requires handling long-tailed or even open-ended data. An ideal visual system needs to recognize the populated head visual concepts reliably and meanwhile efficiently learn about emerging new tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang

Aiming at recognizing the samples from novel categories with few reference samples, few-shot learning (FSL) is a challenging problem. We found that the existing works often build their few-shot model based on the image-level feature by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junying Huang , Fan Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Dongyu Zhang

Few-shot segmentation~(FSS) performance has been extensively promoted by introducing episodic training and class-wise prototypes. However, the FSS problem remains challenging due to three limitations: (1) Models are distracted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jian-Wei Zhang , Lei Lv , Yawei Luo , Hao-Zhe Feng , Yi Yang , Wei Chen

Encouraging progress in few-shot semantic segmentation has been made by leveraging features learned upon base classes with sufficient training data to represent novel classes with few-shot examples. However, this feature sharing mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Binghao Liu , Yao Ding , Jianbin Jiao , Xiangyang Ji , Qixiang Ye

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

Learning novel classes from a very few labeled samples has attracted increasing attention in machine learning areas. Recent research on either meta-learning based or transfer-learning based paradigm demonstrates that gaining information on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Bingbin Li , Elvis Han Cui , Yanan Li , Donghui Wang , Weng Kee Wong

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes using a few annotated samples. Typically, a prototype representing the foreground class is extracted from annotated support image(s) and is matched to features representing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Haoyan Guan , Michael Spratling

Few-shot Learning (FSL), which endeavors to develop the generalization ability for recognizing novel classes using only a few images, faces significant challenges due to data scarcity. Recent CLIP-like methods based on contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wei Zhuo , Runjie Luo , Wufeng Xue , Linlin Shen

Transfer learning based approaches have recently achieved promising results on the few-shot detection task. These approaches however suffer from ``catastrophic forgetting'' issue due to finetuning of base detector, leading to sub-optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yihang She , Goutam Bhat , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu