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Different from fine-tuning models pre-trained on a large-scale dataset of preset classes, class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize novel classes over time without forgetting pre-trained classes. However, a given model will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Xiang , Yuwen Tan , Qian Wan , Jing Ma

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), which targets at continuously expanding model's representation capacity under few supervisions, is an important yet challenging problem. On the one hand, when fitting new tasks (novel classes),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Boyu Yang , Mingbao Lin , Binghao Liu , Mengying Fu , Chang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Qixiang Ye

The continual appearance of new objects in the visual world poses considerable challenges for current deep learning methods in real-world deployments. The challenge of new task learning is often exacerbated by the scarcity of data for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Tianren Wang , Meng Li , Brian C. Lovell

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is a paradigm where a model, initially trained on a dataset of base classes, must adapt to an expanding problem space by recognizing novel classes with limited data. We focus on the challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jack Foster , Kirill Paramonov , Mete Ozay , Umberto Michieli

This paper introduces a novel framework for unified incremental few-shot object detection (iFSOD) and instance segmentation (iFSIS) using the Transformer architecture. Our goal is to create an optimal solution for situations where only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chengyuan Zhang , Yilin Zhang , Lei Zhu , Deyin Liu , Lin Wu , Bo Li , Shichao Zhang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid

Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) portrays the problem of learning new concepts gradually, where only a few examples per concept are available to the learner. Due to the limited number of examples for training, the techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , Pengfei Fang , Soumava Kumar Roy , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) must contend with the dual challenge of learning new classes from scarce samples while preserving old class knowledge. Existing methods use the frozen feature extractor and class-averaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zeyu He , Shuai Huang , Yuwu Lu , Ming Zhao

In the field of medical image segmentation, tackling Out-of-Distribution (OOD) segmentation tasks in a cost-effective manner remains a significant challenge. Universal segmentation models is a solution, which aim to generalize across the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lingdong Shen , Fangxin Shang , Xiaoshuang Huang , Yehui Yang , Haifeng Huang , Shiming Xiang

Deep neural networks for semantic segmentation rely on large-scale annotated datasets, leading to an annotation bottleneck that motivates few shot semantic segmentation (FSS) which aims to generalize to novel classes with minimal labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ourui Fu , Hangzhou He , Kaiwen Li , Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Universal models for medical image segmentation, such as interactive and in-context learning (ICL) models, offer strong generalization but require extensive annotations. Interactive models need repeated user prompts for each image, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jiesi Hu , Yanwu Yang , Zhiyu Ye , Jinyan Zhou , Jianfeng Cao , Hanyang Peng , Ting Ma

Integrating new class information without losing previously acquired knowledge remains a central challenge in artificial intelligence, often referred to as catastrophic forgetting. Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kyle Stein , Andrew Arash Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Depicting novel classes with language descriptions by observing few-shot samples is inherent in human-learning systems. This lifelong learning capability helps to distinguish new knowledge from old ones through the increase of open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Zeyin Song , Yonghong Tian

We study multi-modal few-shot object detection (FSOD) in this paper, using both few-shot visual examples and class semantic information for detection, which are complementary to each other by definition. Most of the previous works on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Guangxing Han , Long Chen , Jiawei Ma , Shiyuan Huang , Rama Chellappa , Shih-Fu Chang

Incremental learning attempts to develop a classifier which learns continuously from a stream of data segregated into different classes. Deep learning approaches suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning classes incrementally, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Ali Ayub , Alan Wagner

Incremental Few-Shot (IFS) segmentation aims to learn new categories over time from only a few annotations. Although widely studied in 2D, it remains underexplored for 3D point clouds. Existing methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vishal Thengane , Zhaochong An , Tianjin Huang , Son Lam Phung , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Lu Yin , Na Zhao , Xiatian Zhu

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

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to adapt to continuously emerging new classes while preserving knowledge of previously learned ones. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents a greater challenge that requires the model to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shiwon Kim , Dongjun Hwang , Sungwon Woo , Rita Singh

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

This paper presents SPeCiaL: a method for unsupervised pretraining of representations tailored for continual learning. Our approach devises a meta-learning objective that differentiates through a sequential learning process. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lucas Caccia , Joelle Pineau

Building image classification models remains cumbersome in data-scarce domains, where collecting large labeled datasets is impractical. In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for few-shot image classification (FSIC),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Lukas Schiesser , Cornelius Wolff , Sophie Haas , Simon Pukrop