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Few-shot font generation (FFG) aims to preserve the underlying global structure of the original character while generating target fonts by referring to a few samples. It has been applied to font library creation, a personalized signature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Xiao He , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Heng Yang

Human learning benefits from multi-modal inputs that often appear as rich semantics (e.g., description of an object's attributes while learning about it). This enables us to learn generalizable concepts from very limited visual examples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mohamed Afham , Salman Khan , Muhammad Haris Khan , Muzammal Naseer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Few-shot learning (FSL) is popular due to its ability to adapt to novel classes. Compared with inductive few-shot learning, transductive models typically perform better as they leverage all samples of the query set. The two existing classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment novel classes under the guidance of limited support samples by a meta-learning paradigm. Existing methods mainly mine references from support images as meta guidance. However, due to intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jin Wang , Bingfeng Zhang , Jian Pang , Mengyu Liu , Honglong Chen , Weifeng Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm in which multiple clients collaboratively train a shared model without sharing their local private data. However, real-world applications of FL frequently encounter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhekai Zhou , Shudong Liu , Zhaokun Zhou , Yang Liu , Qiang Yang , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

An old-school recipe for training a classifier is to (i) learn a good feature extractor and (ii) optimize a linear layer atop. When only a handful of samples are available per category, as in Few-Shot Adaptation (FSA), data are insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Matteo Farina , Massimiliano Mancini , Giovanni Iacca , Elisa Ricci

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

Machine learning has been highly successful in data-intensive applications but is often hampered when the data set is small. Recently, Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is proposed to tackle this problem. Using prior knowledge, FSL can rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao , James Kwok , Lionel M. Ni

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques to simple transfer learning baselines. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reda Bensaid , Vincent Gripon , François Leduc-Primeau , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem since only a few examples are provided to recognize a new class. Several recent studies exploit additional semantic information, e.g. text embeddings of class names, to address the issue of rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

We address a challenging lifelong few-shot image generation task for the first time. In this situation, a generative model learns a sequence of tasks using only a few samples per task. Consequently, the learned model encounters both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Juwon Seo , Ji-Su Kang , Gyeong-Moon Park

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

Objective: Few-shot learning (FSL) methods require small numbers of labeled instances for training. As many medical topics have limited annotated textual data in practical settings, FSL-based natural language processing (NLP) methods hold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yao Ge , Yuting Guo , Yuan-Chi Yang , Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi , Abeed Sarker

Background and objective: Employing deep learning models in critical domains such as medical imaging poses challenges associated with the limited availability of training data. We present a strategy for improving the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eva Pachetti , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Sara Colantonio

While many deep learning methods have seen significant success in tackling the problem of domain adaptation and few-shot learning separately, far fewer methods are able to jointly tackle both problems in Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 John Cai , Bill Cai , Sheng Mei Shen

Modern deep learning requires large-scale extensively labelled datasets for training. Few-shot learning aims to alleviate this issue by learning effectively from few labelled examples. In previously proposed few-shot visual classifiers, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Leonid Sigal , Frank Wood

Humans are capable of learning a new fine-grained concept with very little supervision, \emph{e.g.}, few exemplary images for a species of bird, yet our best deep learning systems need hundreds or thousands of labeled examples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Jianxin Wu

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to recognize novel classes with only a few labeled examples. Some recent work about FSL has yielded promising classification performance, where the image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jianpeng Yang , Yuhang Niu , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi

We develop a novel compositional generative model for zero- and few-shot learning to recognize fine-grained classes with a few or no training samples. Our key observation is that generating holistic features for fine-grained classes fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Dat Huynh , Ehsan Elhamifar

Few-shot classification is a challenging problem that aims to learn a model that can adapt to unseen classes given a few labeled samples. Recent approaches pre-train a feature extractor, and then fine-tune for episodic meta-learning. Other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Philip Chikontwe , Soopil Kim , Sang Hyun Park