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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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse visual tasks, including image recognition, video understanding, and Visual Question Answering (VQA) when explicitly trained for these tasks. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sivan Doveh , Nimrod Shabtay , Wei Lin , Eli Schwartz , Hilde Kuehne , Raja Giryes , Rogerio Feris , Leonid Karlinsky , James Glass , Assaf Arbelle , Shimon Ullman , M. Jehanzeb Mirza

Industrial defect segmentation is critical for manufacturing quality control. Due to the scarcity of training defect samples, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) holds significant value in this field. However, existing studies mostly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tongkun Liu , Bing Li , Xiao Jin , Yupeng Shi , Qiuying Li , Xiang Wei

This paper addresses the few-shot image classification problem, where the classification task is performed on unlabeled query samples given a small amount of labeled support samples only. One major challenge of the few-shot learning problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Cuong Q. Nguyen , Dung D. Le , Hieu H. Pham

Foundation vision-language models (VLMs) excel on natural images, but their utility for biomedical microscopy remains underexplored. In this paper, we investigate how in-context learning enables state-of-the-art VLMs to perform few-shot…

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for medical image segmentation, reducing the reliance on extensive expert annotations. Meanwhile, vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaqi Guo , Mingzhen Li , Hanyu Su , Santiago López , Lexiaozi Fan , Daniel Kim , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Few-shot segmentation is the problem of learning to identify specific types of objects (e.g., airplanes) in images from a small set of labeled reference images. The current state of the art is driven by resource-intensive construction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Savinay Nagendra , Kashif Rashid , Chaopeng Shen , Daniel Kifer

Remote sensing has become a vital tool across sectors such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. While the volume of data generated has increased significantly, traditional vision models are often constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jia Yun Chua , Argyrios Zolotas , Miguel Arana-Catania

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes using a few annotated samples. Typically, a prototype representing the foreground class is extracted from annotated support image(s) and is matched to features representing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Haoyan Guan , Michael Spratling

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Class Activation Map (CAM) has emerged as a popular tool for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), allowing the localization of object regions in an image using only image-level labels. However, existing CAM methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Songhe Deng , Wei Zhuo , Jinheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Few-Shot Learning is the challenge of training a model with only a small amount of data. Many solutions to this problem use meta-learning algorithms, i.e. algorithms that learn to learn. By sampling few-shot tasks from a larger dataset, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Etienne Bennequin

Fine-grained image classification, particularly in zero/few-shot scenarios, presents a significant challenge for vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP. These models often struggle with the nuanced task of distinguishing between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Canshi Wei

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), trained on extensive datasets of image-text pairs, exhibit strong multimodal understanding capabilities by implicitly learning associations between textual descriptions and image regions. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Mennatullah Siam , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

This paper is about few-shot segmentation of foreground objects in images. We train a CNN on small subsets of training images, each mimicking the few-shot setting. In each subset, one image serves as the query and the other(s) as support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Khoi Nguyen , Sinisa Todorovic

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) seeks to segment and classify camouflaged objects from arbitrary categories, presenting unique challenges due to visual ambiguity and unseen categories.Recent approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Zheng Wang , Guanyi Li , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Deng-ping Fan , Dan Zeng

Significant progress has been made recently in developing few-shot object segmentation methods. Learning is shown to be successful in few-shot segmentation settings, using pixel-level, scribbles and bounding box supervision. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

By describing the features and abstractions of our world, language is a crucial tool for human learning and a promising source of supervision for machine learning models. We use language to improve few-shot visual classification in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jesse Mu , Percy Liang , Noah Goodman

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods perform image segmentation for a particular object class in a target (query) image, using a small set of (support) image-mask pairs. Recent deep neural network based FSS methods leverage high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siddhartha Gairola , Mayur Hemani , Ayush Chopra , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Vision-language foundation models pretrained on large-scale data provide a powerful tool for many visual understanding tasks. Notably, many vision-language models build two encoders (visual and textual) that can map two modalities into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Taihong Xiao , Zirui Wang , Liangliang Cao , Jiahui Yu , Shengyang Dai , Ming-Hsuan Yang