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In Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL), embedding-based methods enable knowledge transfer from seen to unseen classes by learning a visual-semantic mapping from seen-class images to class-level semantic prototypes (e.g., attributes). However, these…

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Semantic segmentation is still a challenging task for parsing diverse contexts in different scenes, thus the fixed classifier might not be able to well address varying feature distributions during testing. Different from the mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhuotao Tian , Jiequan Cui , Li Jiang , Xiaojuan Qi , Xin Lai , Yixin Chen , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

The success of deep neural networks greatly relies on the availability of large amounts of high-quality annotated data, which however are difficult or expensive to obtain. The resulting labels may be class imbalanced, noisy or human biased.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiangyang Ji

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

The recent emerged weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) methods can learn to localize an object in the image only using image-level labels. Previous works endeavor to perceive the interval objects from the small and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Li Zhang , Lu Ye , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

This paper presents Prototypical Contrastive Learning (PCL), an unsupervised representation learning method that addresses the fundamental limitations of instance-wise contrastive learning. PCL not only learns low-level features for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Junnan Li , Pan Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Steven C. H. Hoi

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment new object classes with only a few annotated examples, which has a wide range of real-world applications. Most existing methods either focus on the restrictive setting of one-way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yongfei Liu , Xiangyi Zhang , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Prompt learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for adapting pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to few-shot whole slide image (WSI) classification by aligning visual features with textual representations, thereby reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Junjie Zhou , Wei Shao , Yagao Yue , Wei Mu , Peng Wan , Qi Zhu , Daoqiang Zhang

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) denotes the identification of anomalies within a target category with a limited number of normal samples. Existing FSAD methods largely rely on pre-trained feature representations to detect anomalies, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuxin Jiang , Yunkang Cao , Weiming Shen

Due to the high inter-class similarity caused by the complex composition and the co-existing objects across scenes, numerous studies have explored object semantic knowledge within scenes to improve scene recognition. However, a resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chuanxin Song , Hanbo Wu , Xin Ma , Yibin Li

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methods only require image level labels as opposed to expensive bounding box annotations required by fully supervised algorithms. We study the problem of learning localization model on target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amir Rahimi , Amirreza Shaban , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Richard Hartley , Byron Boots

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD), using only image-level annotations to train object detectors, is of growing importance in object recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel deep network for WSOD. Unlike previous networks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Song Bai , Wei Shen , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu , Alan Yuille

Interpretability is essential for deploying object detection systems in critical applications, especially under low-quality imaging conditions that degrade visual information and increase prediction uncertainty. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jianlin Xiang , Linhui Dai , Xue Yang , Chaolei Yang , Yanshan Li

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has been widely studied to relieve the annotation burden of the traditional segmentation task. In this paper, we show that existing fully-annotated base categories can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Jianlou Si , Chen Qian , Liqing Zhang

Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to classify new concepts from a small number of examples. While there have been an increasing amount of work on few-shot object classification in the last few years, most current approaches are limited to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mathieu Pagé Fortin , Brahim Chaib-draa

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown a strong ability in mining discriminative object pose and parts information for image recognition. For fine-grained recognition, context-aware rich feature representation of object/scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ardhendu Behera , Zachary Wharton , Pradeep Hewage , Asish Bera

We study the task of weakly-supervised point cloud semantic segmentation with sparse annotations (e.g., less than 0.1% points are labeled), aiming to reduce the expensive cost of dense annotations. Unfortunately, with extremely sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lizhao Liu , Zhuangwei Zhuang , Shangxin Huang , Xunlong Xiao , Tianhang Xiang , Cen Chen , Jingdong Wang , Mingkui Tan

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a query image with only a few annotated examples in support images. Most of advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

Few-shot segmentation enables the model to recognize unseen classes with few annotated examples. Most existing methods adopt prototype learning architecture, where support prototype vectors are expanded and concatenated with query features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xiaoyu Zhao , Xiaoqian Chen , Zhiqiang Gong , Wen Yao , Yunyang Zhang , Xiaohu Zheng