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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

Few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation aims to train a model to quickly adapt to new unseen classes with only a handful of support set samples. However, the noise-free assumption in the support set can be easily violated in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yating Xu , Na Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

The Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to accomplish the novel class segmentation task with a few annotated images. Current FSS research based on meta-learning focus on designing a complex interaction mechanism between the query and support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jing Wang , Jinagyun Li , Chen Chen , Yisi Zhang , Haoran Shen , Tianxiang Zhang

Few-shot learning and self-supervised learning address different facets of the same problem: how to train a model with little or no labeled data. Few-shot learning aims for optimization methods and models that can learn efficiently to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Few-shot text classification has important application value in low-resource environments. This paper proposes a strategy that combines adaptive fine-tuning, contrastive learning, and regularization optimization to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Xu Han , Yumeng Sun , Weiqiang Huang , Hongye Zheng , Junliang Du

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques to simple transfer learning baselines. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reda Bensaid , Vincent Gripon , François Leduc-Primeau , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux

In this work, we present a unified model that can handle both Keyword Spotting and Word Recognition with the same network architecture. The proposed network is comprised of a non-recurrent CTC branch and a Seq2Seq branch that is further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Petros Maragos

Currently, the state-of-the-art methods treat few-shot semantic segmentation task as a conditional foreground-background segmentation problem, assuming each class is independent. In this paper, we introduce the concept of meta-class, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhonghua Wu , Xiangxi Shi , Guosheng lin , Jianfei Cai

This paper explores the use of TTS synthesized training data for KWS (keyword spotting) task while minimizing development cost and time. Keyword spotting models require a huge amount of training data to be accurate, and obtaining such…

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a long-standing problem in natural language processing. One significant challenge in supervised all-words WSD is to classify among senses for a majority of words that lie in the long-tail distribution. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Howard Chen , Mengzhou Xia , Danqi Chen

Automatic speech quality assessment is essential for audio researchers, developers, speech and language pathologists, and system quality engineers. The current state-of-the-art systems are based on framewise speech features (hand-engineered…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Karl El Hajal , Zihan Wu , Neil Scheidwasser-Clow , Gasser Elbanna , Milos Cernak

Keyword Spotting (KWS) is an essential component in a smart device for alerting the system when a user prompts it with a command. As these devices are typically constrained by computational and energy resources, the KWS model should be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Donghyeon Kim , Kyungdeuk Ko , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

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 increased availability of massive point clouds coupled with their utility in a wide variety of applications such as robotics, shape synthesis, and self-driving cars has attracted increased attention from both industry and academia.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Charu Sharma , Manohar Kaul

We address the challenge of detecting synthesized speech under distribution shifts -- arising from unseen synthesis methods, speakers, languages, or audio conditions -- relative to the training data. Few-shot learning methods are a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ashi Garg , Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

Keyword spotting is the task of detecting a keyword in streaming audio. Conventional keyword spotting targets predefined keywords classification, but there is growing attention in few-shot (query-by-example) keyword spotting, e.g., N-way…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Byeonggeun Kim , Seunghan Yang , Inseop Chung , Simyung Chang

The objective of this paper is few-shot object detection (FSOD) -- the task of expanding an object detector for a new category given only a few instances for training. We introduce a simple pseudo-labelling method to source high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Prannay Kaul , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Whole Slide Images (WSIs) are giga-pixel in scale and are typically partitioned into small instances in WSI classification pipelines for computational feasibility. However, obtaining extensive instance level annotations is costly, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jayanie Bogahawatte , Sachith Seneviratne , Saman Halgamuge

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem since only a few examples are provided to recognize a new class. Several recent studies exploit additional semantic information, e.g. text embeddings of class names, to address the issue of rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Few-shot learning is currently enjoying a considerable resurgence of interest, aided by the recent advance of deep learning. Contemporary approaches based on weight-generation scheme delivers a straightforward and flexible solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Mingjiang Liang , Shaoli Huang , Shirui Pan , Mingming Gong , Wei Liu