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Humans exhibit a remarkable ability to learn quickly from a limited number of labeled samples, a capability that starkly contrasts with that of current machine learning systems. Unsupervised Few-Shot Learning (U-FSL) seeks to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhenyu Zhang , Guangyao Chen , Yixiong Zou , Zhimeng Huang , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to produce pixel-wise class predictions with only image-level labels for training. To this end, previous methods adopt the common pipeline: they generate pseudo masks from class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sungpil Kho , Pilhyeon Lee , Wonyoung Lee , Minsong Ki , Hyeran Byun

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

The field of Few-Shot Learning (FSL), or learning from very few (typically $1$ or $5$) examples per novel class (unseen during training), has received a lot of attention and significant performance advances in the recent literature. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moshe Lichtenstein , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Raja Giryes , Leonid Karlinsky

Few-shot image generation aims to generate images of high quality and great diversity with limited data. However, it is difficult for modern GANs to avoid overfitting when trained on only a few images. The discriminator can easily remember…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jingyuan Zhu , Huimin Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Jian Yuan

This paper studies few-shot segmentation, which is a task of predicting foreground mask of unseen classes by a few of annotations only, aided by a set of rich annotations already existed. The existing methods mainly focus the task on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Yuwei Yang , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li , King N. Ngan , Qingbo Wu

Non-ideal measurement computed tomography (NICT), which lowers radiation at the cost of image quality, is expanding the clinical use of CT. Although unified models have shown promise in NICT enhancement, most methods require paired data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fengzhi Xu , Ziyuan Yang , Zexin Lu , Yingyu Chen , Fenglei Fan , Hongming Shan , Yi Zhang

In this work, we revisit the prior mask guidance proposed in ``Prior Guided Feature Enrichment Network for Few-Shot Segmentation''. The prior mask serves as an indicator that highlights the region of interests of unseen categories, and it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaoliu Luo , Zhuotao Tian , Taiping Zhang , Bei Yu , Yuan Yan Tang , Jiaya Jia

Recent progress on few-shot learning largely relies on annotated data for meta-learning: base classes sampled from the same domain as the novel classes. However, in many applications, collecting data for meta-learning is infeasible or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yunhui Guo , Noel C. Codella , Leonid Karlinsky , James V. Codella , John R. Smith , Kate Saenko , Tajana Rosing , Rogerio Feris

Segmenting images is critical for visual understanding but demands extensive pixel-level annotations. Foundational models have enabled new paradigms for predicting new classes guided by textual prompts, without annotations from the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Gabriele Rosi , Fabio Cermelli , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Vision foundation models have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities in segmentation tasks for both generic and specialized images. However, a performance gap persists between foundation models and task-specific, specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Chengxi Zeng , David Smithard , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

We present a novel frequency-based Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) approach that significantly enhances its efficacy for pre-training. Prior work in this direction masks out pre-defined frequencies in the input image and employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Mengxi Zhou , Nastaran Karimi Monsefi , Ser-Nam Lim , Wei-Lun Chao , Rajiv Ramnath

Zero- and few-shot visual anomaly segmentation relies on powerful vision-language models that detect unseen anomalies using manually designed textual prompts. However, visual representations are inherently independent of language. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bin-Bin Gao

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) has made significant strides, yet existing methods still face critical challenges: (i) dependence on task- or dataset-specific training/fine-tuning, (ii) reliance on language supervision or carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guohuan Xie , Xin He , Dingying Fan , Siqi Li , Yun Liu

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) methods have shown great promise in handling data-scarce scenarios, particularly in medical image segmentation tasks. However, most existing FSS architectures lack sufficient interpretability and fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shengdong Zhang , Fan Jia , Xiang Li , Hao Zhang , Jun Shi , Liyan Ma , Shihui Ying

While large visual models (LVM) demonstrated significant potential in image understanding, due to the application of large-scale pre-training, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has also achieved great success in the field of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jiaqi Yang , Yaning Zhang , Jingxi Hu , Xiangjian He , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

Learning-based methods for visual segmentation have made progress on particular types of segmentation tasks, but are limited by the necessary supervision, the narrow definitions of fixed tasks, and the lack of control during inference for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Kate Rakelly , Evan Shelhamer , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Sergey Levine

Few-shot classification (FSC) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision that involves recognizing novel classes from limited data. While previous methods have focused on enhancing visual features or incorporating additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fan Liu , Wenwen Cai , Jian Huo , Chuanyi Zhang , Delong Chen , Jun Zhou

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent FSL advances for video and 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Kendall N. Niles , Joe Tom , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Elias Ioup