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Few-shot classification aims to recognize unseen classes when presented with only a small number of samples. We consider the problem of multi-domain few-shot image classification, where unseen classes and examples come from diverse data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lu Liu , William Hamilton , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Hugo Larochelle

Few-shot learning is a challenging task since only few instances are given for recognizing an unseen class. One way to alleviate this problem is to acquire a strong inductive bias via meta-learning on similar tasks. In this paper, we show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

Few-shot visual recognition refers to recognize novel visual concepts from a few labeled instances. Many few-shot visual recognition methods adopt the metric-based meta-learning paradigm by comparing the query representation with class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mengya Han , Yibing Zhan , Yong Luo , Bo Du , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

One-shot learning has become an important research topic in the last decade with many real-world applications. The goal of one-shot learning is to classify unlabeled instances when there is only one labeled example per class. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhongfang Zhuang , Xiangnan Kong , Elke Rundensteiner , Aditya Arora , Jihane Zouaoui

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gabriel Huang , Issam Laradji , David Vazquez , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Pau Rodriguez

Deep learning based models have excelled in many computer vision tasks and appear to surpass humans' performance. However, these models require an avalanche of expensive human labeled training data and many iterations to train their large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yikai Wang , Li Zhang , Yuan Yao , Yanwei Fu

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize new objects with extremely limited training data for each category. Previous efforts are made by either leveraging meta-learning paradigm or novel principles in data augmentation to alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Yikai Wang , Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu

The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Deep learning has shown great success in settings with massive amounts of data but has struggled when data is limited. Few-shot learning algorithms, which seek to address this limitation, are designed to generalize well to new tasks with…

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

It is often the case that data are with multiple views in real-world applications. Fully exploring the information of each view is significant for making data more representative. However, due to various limitations and failures in data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yuan Zhou , Yanrong Guo , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Jiebo Luo

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

Graph few-shot learning, which aims to classify nodes from novel classes with only a few labeled examples, is a widely studied problem in graph learning. However, existing methods often face two key limitations. First, the predominant graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Renchu Guan , Yajun Wang , Chunli Guo , Bowen Cao , Fausto Giunchiglia , Wei Pang , Yonghao Liu , Xiaoyue Feng

The reference-based object segmentation tasks, namely referring image segmentation (RIS), few-shot image segmentation (FSS), referring video object segmentation (RVOS), and video object segmentation (VOS), aim to segment a specific object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiannan Wu , Yi Jiang , Bin Yan , Huchuan Lu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect objects with limited samples for novel classes, while relying on abundant data for base classes. Existing FSOD approaches, predominantly built on the Faster R-CNN detector, entangle objectness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Taijin Zhao , Heqian Qiu , Yu Dai , Lanxiao Wang , Fanman Meng , Qingbo Wu , Hongliang Li

Real-world object detection is highly desired to be equipped with the learning expandability that can enlarge its detection classes incrementally. Moreover, such learning from only few annotated training samples further adds the flexibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

We generalize the formulation of few-shot learning by introducing the concept of an aspect. In the traditional formulation of few-shot learning, there is an underlying assumption that a single "true" label defines the content of each data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Tim van Engeland , Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski

Few-Shot transfer learning has become a major focus of research as it allows recognition of new classes with limited labeled data. While it is assumed that train and test data have the same data distribution, this is often not the case in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Wenjian Wang , Lijuan Duan , Yuxi Wang , Junsong Fan , Zhi Gong , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is a dense prediction task that aims to infer the pixel-wise labels of unseen classes using only a limited number of annotated images. The key challenge in FSS is to classify the labels of query pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wenbo Xu , Huaxi Huang , Ming Cheng , Litao Yu , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang