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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 learning (FSL) techniques seek to learn the underlying patterns in data using fewer samples, analogous to how humans learn from limited experience. In this limited-data scenario, the challenges associated with deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Deepan Chakravarthi Padmanabhan , Shruthi Gowda , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Transductive Few-Shot learning has gained increased attention nowadays considering the cost of data annotations along with the increased accuracy provided by unlabelled samples in the domain of few shot. Especially in Few-Shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yuqing Hu , Stéphane Pateux , Vincent Gripon

Few-shot learning is proposed to tackle the problem of scarce training data in novel classes. However, prior works in instance-level few-shot learning have paid less attention to effectively utilizing the relationship between categories. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Thanh-Toan Do , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Tam V. Nguyen

Few-shot learning has made impressive strides in addressing the crucial challenges of recognizing unknown samples from novel classes in target query sets and managing visual shifts between domains. However, existing techniques fall short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Debabrata Pal , Deeptej More , Sai Bhargav , Dipesh Tamboli , Vaneet Aggarwal , Biplab Banerjee

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that can recognize unseen classes from limited support data with labels. A common practice for this task is to train a model on the base set first and then transfer to novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Few-shot, fine-grained classification requires a model to learn subtle, fine-grained distinctions between different classes (e.g., birds) based on a few images alone. This requires a remarkable degree of invariance to pose, articulation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Luming Tang , Davis Wertheimer , Bharath Hariharan

Deep learning has shown great promise in diverse areas of computer vision, such as image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation, among many others. However, as it has been repeatedly demonstrated, deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mauricio Mendez-Ruiz , Francisco Lopez-Tiro , Jonathan El-Beze , Vincent Estrade , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz1 , Jacques Hubert , Andres Mendez-Vazquez , Christian Daul

Deep neural networks are highly effective when a large number of labeled samples are available but fail with few-shot classification tasks. Recently, meta-learning methods have received much attention, which train a meta-learner on massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yucan Zhou , Yu Wang , Jianfei Cai , Yu Zhou , Qinghua Hu , Weiping Wang

Few-shot classification aims to recognize novel categories with only few labeled images in each class. Existing metric-based few-shot classification algorithms predict categories by comparing the feature embeddings of query images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to segment objects of novel classes in new domains, which is often challenging due to the diverse characteristics of target domains and the limited availability of support data. Most CD-FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Qi Fan , Kaiqi Liu , Nian Liu , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Wenbin Li , Yang Gao

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

We investigate cross-domain few-shot learning under the constraint that fine-tuning of backbones (i.e., feature extractors) is impossible or infeasible -- a scenario that is increasingly common in practical use cases. Handling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xin Xu , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

Few-shot classification algorithms can alleviate the data scarceness issue, which is vital in many real-world problems, by adopting models pre-trained from abundant data in other domains. However, the pre-training process was commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chao Wang , Ruo-Ze Liu , Han-Jia Ye , Yang Yu

Deep learning has witnessed the extensive utilization across a wide spectrum of domains, including fine-grained few-shot learning (FGFSL) which heavily depends on deep backbones. Nonetheless, shallower deep backbones such as ConvNet-4, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaofei Qi , Chao Ye , Zhitai Liu , Weiyang Lin , Jianbin Qiu

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Many real-world classification problems often have classes with very few labeled training samples. Moreover, all possible classes may not be initially available for training, and may be given incrementally. Deep learning models need to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh , Piyush Rai

Traditional fine-grained image classification generally requires abundant labeled samples to deal with the low inter-class variance but high intra-class variance problem. However, in many scenarios we may have limited samples for some novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chaofei Wang , Shiji Song , Qisen Yang , Xiang Li , Gao Huang

Meta-learning has been the most common framework for few-shot learning in recent years. It learns the model from collections of few-shot classification tasks, which is believed to have a key advantage of making the training objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yinbo Chen , Zhuang Liu , Huijuan Xu , Trevor Darrell , Xiaolong Wang

While deep learning excels in computer vision tasks with abundant labeled data, its performance diminishes significantly in scenarios with limited labeled samples. To address this, Few-shot learning (FSL) enables models to perform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Huali Xu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Shuzhou Sun , Vishal M. Patel , Li Liu