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Previous few-shot learning (FSL) works mostly are limited to natural images of general concepts and categories. These works assume very high visual similarity between the source and target classes. In contrast, the recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Yuqian Fu , Yu Xie , Yanwei Fu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

We introduce the integrative task of few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) that aims to both classify and segment target objects in a query image when the target classes are given with a few examples. This task combines two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

Few-shot classification aims to carry out classification given only few labeled examples for the categories of interest. Though several approaches have been proposed, most existing few-shot learning (FSL) models assume that base and novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Ci-Siang Lin , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Few-shot classification (FSC) is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training data (e.g. only one labeled data point per class). Meta-learning has shown to achieve promising results by learning to initialize a classification model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xinzhe Li , Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Shibao Zheng , Qin Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Few-shot class-incremental Learning (FSCIL) enables models to learn new classes from limited data while retaining performance on previously learned classes. Traditional FSCIL methods often require fine-tuning parameters with limited new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Songlin Dong , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , Yihong Gong

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) struggles to incrementally recognize novel classes from few examples without catastrophic forgetting of old classes or overfitting to new classes. We propose TLCE, which ensembles multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shuangmei Wang , Yang Cao , Tieru Wu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to prevent catastrophic forgetting of previously learned classes while sequentially incorporating new ones. The more challenging Few-shot CIL (FSCIL) setting further complicates this by providing only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhiwu Wang , Yichen Wu , Renzhen Wang , Haokun Lin , Quanziang Wang , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

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

Learning quickly from very few labeled samples is a fundamental attribute that separates machines and humans in the era of deep representation learning. Unsupervised few-shot learning (U-FSL) aspires to bridge this gap by discarding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Stylianos Poulakakis-Daktylidis , Hadi Jamali-Rad

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

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 learning (FSL) is an important and topical problem in computer vision that has motivated extensive research into numerous methods spanning from sophisticated meta-learning methods to simple transfer learning baselines. We seek to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Shell Xu Hu , Da Li , Jan Stühmer , Minyoung Kim , Timothy M. Hospedales

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…

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have led to strong text classification models for many tasks. However, still often thousands of examples are needed to train models with good quality. This makes it challenging to quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Thomas Müller , Guillermo Pérez-Torró , Angelo Basile , Marc Franco-Salvador

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR) systems have rapidly evolved to tackle incremental recognition challenges in operational settings. Data scarcity remains a major hurdle that conventional SAR-ATR techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 George Karantaidis , Athanasios Pantsios , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Cross-domain few-shot classification task (CD-FSC) combines few-shot classification with the requirement to generalize across domains represented by datasets. This setup faces challenges originating from the limited labeled data in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jiamei Sun , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek , Yunqing Zhao , Ngai-Man Cheung , Alexander Binder

Continual Learning (CL) methods usually learn from all available data. However, this is not the case in human cognition which efficiently focuses on key experiences while disregarding the redundant information. Similarly, not all data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim , Murat Onur Yildirim , Joaquin Vanschoren

Inspired by Regularized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (RLTH), which hypothesizes that there exist smooth (non-binary) subnetworks within a dense network that achieve the competitive performance of the dense network, we propose a few-shot class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haeyong Kang , Jaehong Yoon , Sultan Rizky Hikmawan Madjid , Sung Ju Hwang , Chang D. Yoo

The human visual system is remarkable in learning new visual concepts from just a few examples. This is precisely the goal behind few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL), where the emphasis is additionally placed on ensuring the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Subhadeep Koley , Rohit Kundu , Aneeshan Sain , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

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