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Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Few-shot segmentation aims to devise a generalizing model that segments query images from unseen classes during training with the guidance of a few support images whose class tally with the class of the query. There exist two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Alper Kayabaşı , Gülin Tüfekci , İlkay Ulusoy

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces a critical challenge: balancing the retention of prior knowledge with the acquisition of new classes. Existing methods either freeze the backbone to prevent catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiaojie Li , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

The proliferation of Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) methodologies has highlighted the critical challenge of maintaining robust anti-amnesia capabilities in FSCIL learners. In this paper, we present a novel conceptualization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jingren Liu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , YunLong Yu

Few-shot classification of hyperspectral images (HSI) faces the challenge of scarce labeled samples. Self-Supervised learning (SSL) and Few-Shot Learning (FSL) offer promising avenues to address this issue. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wenchen Chen , Yanmei Zhang , Zhongwei Xiao , Jianping Chu , Xingbo Wang

To tackle the issues of catastrophic forgetting and overfitting in few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), previous work has primarily concentrated on preserving the memory of old knowledge during the incremental phase. The role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wenhao Jiang , Duo Li , Menghan Hu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

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

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) poses significant challenges, primarily due to catastrophic forgetting, necessitating a delicate balance between stability and plasticity to accurately recognize both new and previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Eduard Hogea , Adrian Popescu , Darian Onchis , Grégoire Petit

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 application of activity recognition in the "AI + Education" field is gaining increasing attention. However, current work mainly focuses on the recognition of activities in manually captured videos and a limited number of activity types,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yilei Qian , Kanglei Geng , Kailong Chen , Shaoxu Cheng , Linfeng Xu , Hongliang Li , Fanman Meng , Qingbo Wu

Fine-grained few-shot recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for novel categories.The network tends to overfit and does not generalize well to unseen classes due to insufficient training data. Many methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Mingzhen Huang , ShahRukh Athar , Dimitris Samaras

Few-shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) addresses the challenges of evolving data distributions and the difficulty of data acquisition in real-world scenarios. To counteract the catastrophic forgetting typically encountered in FSCIL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Pengfei Fang , Yongchun Qin , Hui Xue

Recently, Transformer-based robotic manipulation methods utilize multi-view spatial representations and language instructions to learn robot motion trajectories by leveraging numerous robot demonstrations. However, the collection of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Mingchen Song , Xiang Deng , Guoqiang Zhong , Qi Lv , Jia Wan , Yinchuan Li , Jianye Hao , Weili Guan

The ability to incrementally learn new classes is vital to all real-world artificial intelligence systems. A large portion of high-impact applications like social media, recommendation systems, E-commerce platforms, etc. can be represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Zhen Tan , Kaize Ding , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu

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

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has been widely studied under the setting of starting from a small number of classes (base classes). Instead, we explore an understudied real-world setting of CIL that starts with a strong model pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tz-Ying Wu , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Zhizhong Li , Avinash Ravichandran , Nuno Vasconcelos , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel queries with limited support samples by learning from base knowledge. Recent progress in this setting assumes that the base knowledge and novel query samples are distributed in the same domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yifan Zhao , Tong Zhang , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning has shown remarkable efficacy in efficient learning new concepts with limited annotations. Nevertheless, the heuristic few-shot annotations may not always cover the most informative samples, which largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zitong Huang , Ze Chen , Yuanze Li , Bowen Dong , Erjin Zhou , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Chun-Mei Feng , Wangmeng Zuo

Exemplar-based class-incremental learning (CIL) finetunes the model with all samples of new classes but few-shot exemplars of old classes in each incremental phase, where the "few-shot" abides by the limited memory budget. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zilin Luo , Yaoyao Liu , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun