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Deep learning has shown great success in settings with massive amounts of data but has struggled when data is limited. Few-shot learning algorithms, which seek to address this limitation, are designed to generalize well to new tasks with…

Traditional semantic segmentation tasks require a large number of labels and are difficult to identify unlearned categories. Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to use limited labeled support images to identify the segmentation of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xianglin Wang , Xiaoliu Luo , Taiping Zhang

Generative zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods typically synthesize visual features for unseen classes using predefined semantic attributes, followed by training a fully supervised classification model. While effective, these methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Md Shakil Ahamed Shohag , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Farhad Pourpanah

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

This work focuses on tackling the challenging but realistic visual task of Incremental Few-Shot Learning (IFSL), which requires a model to continually learn novel classes from only a few examples while not forgetting the base classes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Xijia Feng , Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

The Diffusion Model has not only garnered noteworthy achievements in the realm of image generation but has also demonstrated its potential as an effective pretraining method utilizing unlabeled data. Drawing from the extensive potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Muzhi Zhu , Yang Liu , Zekai Luo , Chenchen Jing , Hao Chen , Guangkai Xu , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen

We show that the way inference is performed in few-shot segmentation tasks has a substantial effect on performances -- an aspect often overlooked in the literature in favor of the meta-learning paradigm. We introduce a transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Malik Boudiaf , Hoel Kervadec , Ziko Imtiaz Masud , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Over the last couple of years few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted great attention towards minimizing the dependency on labeled training examples. An inherent difficulty in FSL is the handling of ambiguities resulting from having too few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gökberk Cinbiş

The Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to accomplish the novel class segmentation task with a few annotated images. Current FSS research based on meta-learning focus on designing a complex interaction mechanism between the query and support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jing Wang , Jinagyun Li , Chen Chen , Yisi Zhang , Haoran Shen , Tianxiang Zhang

The increased availability of massive point clouds coupled with their utility in a wide variety of applications such as robotics, shape synthesis, and self-driving cars has attracted increased attention from both industry and academia.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Charu Sharma , Manohar Kaul

Learning to generate a task-aware base learner proves a promising direction to deal with few-shot learning (FSL) problem. Existing methods mainly focus on generating an embedding model utilized with a fixed metric (eg, cosine distance) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Lei Zhang , Fei Zhou , Wei Wei , Yanning Zhang

Few-shot learning is a challenging task, which aims to learn a classifier for novel classes with few examples. Pre-training based meta-learning methods effectively tackle the problem by pre-training a feature extractor and then fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Baoquan Zhang , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Zhichao Huang , Lisai Zhang

Object-centric representations promise a key property for few-shot learning: Rather than treating a scene as a single unit, a model can decompose it into individual object-level parts that can be matched and compared across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Phu-Quy Nguyen-Lam , Phu-Hoa Pham , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Chi-Nguyen Tran , Huynh Trung Kiet , Long Tran-Thanh

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

We propose a Paired Few-shot GAN (PFS-GAN) model for learning generators with sufficient source data and a few target data. While generative model learning typically needs large-scale training data, our PFS-GAN not only uses the concept of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Chun-Chih Teng , Pin-Yu Chen , Wei-Chen Chiu

Few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation aims to train a model to quickly adapt to new unseen classes with only a handful of support set samples. However, the noise-free assumption in the support set can be easily violated in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yating Xu , Na Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

The significant amount of training data required for training Convolutional Neural Networks has become a bottleneck for applications like semantic segmentation. Few-shot semantic segmentation algorithms address this problem, with an aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ayyappa Kumar Pambala , Titir Dutta , Soma Biswas

Few-shot learning (FSL) approaches are usually based on an assumption that the pre-trained knowledge can be obtained from base (seen) categories and can be well transferred to novel (unseen) categories. However, there is no guarantee,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Few-Shot Video Object Segmentation (FSVOS) aims to segment objects in a query video with the same category defined by a few annotated support images. However, this task was seldom explored. In this work, based on IPMT, a state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Nian Liu , Kepan Nan , Wangbo Zhao , Yuanwei Liu , Xiwen Yao , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Junwei Han , Fahad Shahbaz Khan