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Foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP exhibit strong generalization capabilities due to large-scale pretraining on diverse image-text pairs. However, their performance often degrades when applied to target datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Debarshi Brahma , Soma Biswas

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

Few-shot learning, especially few-shot image classification, has received increasing attention and witnessed significant advances in recent years. Some recent studies implicitly show that many generic techniques or ``tricks'', such as data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Wenbin Li , Ziyi , Wang , Xuesong Yang , Chuanqi Dong , Pinzhuo Tian , Tiexin Qin , Jing Huo , Yinghuan Shi , Lei Wang , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

Few-shot image classification aims to learn an image classifier using only a small set of labeled examples per class. A recent research direction for improving few-shot classifiers involves augmenting the labelled samples with synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Victor G. Turrisi da Costa , Nicola Dall'Asen , Yiming Wang , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Despite the strong performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in disease classification, their effectiveness often depends on access to large annotated datasets, which is an impractical requirement for emerging or rare conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Md. Safirur Rashid , Sabbir Ahmed , Muhammad Usama Islam , Sumona Hoque Mumu , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Few-shot node classification aims at classifying nodes with limited labeled nodes as references. Recent few-shot node classification methods typically learn from classes with abundant labeled nodes (i.e., meta-training classes) and then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Song Wang , Yushun Dong , Kaize Ding , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a given query image with only a few labeled support images. Most advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through matching each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

Few-shot learning addresses problems for which a limited number of training examples are available. So far, the field has been mostly driven by applications in computer vision. Here, we are interested in adapting recently introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Myriam Bontonou , Giulia Lioi , Nicolas Farrugia , Vincent Gripon

Few-shot image classification aims to classify unseen classes with limited labelled samples. Recent works benefit from the meta-learning process with episodic tasks and can fast adapt to class from training to testing. Due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Da Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Feng Mao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

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

Building accurate models for rare skin diseases remains challenging due to the lack of sufficient labeled data and the inherently long-tailed distribution of available samples. These issues are further complicated by inconsistencies in how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zeynep Özdemir , Hacer Yalim Keles , Ömer Özgür Tanrıöver

The goal of few-shot learning is to recognize new visual concepts with just a few amount of labeled samples in each class. Recent effective metric-based few-shot approaches employ neural networks to learn a feature similarity comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Xiaomeng Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Meng Fang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Although few-shot learning research has advanced rapidly with the help of meta-learning, its practical usefulness is still limited because most of them assumed that all meta-training and meta-testing examples came from a single domain. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yongseok Choi , Junyoung Park , Subin Yi , Dong-Yeon Cho

Few-shot image classification is a challenging problem that aims to achieve the human level of recognition based only on a small number of training images. One main solution to few-shot image classification is deep metric learning. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xiaoxu Li , Xiaochen Yang , Zhanyu Ma , Jing-Hao Xue

In this paper, we are interested in the few-shot learning problem. In particular, we focus on a challenging scenario where the number of categories is large and the number of examples per novel category is very limited, e.g. 1, 2, or 3.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Siyuan Qiao , Chenxi Liu , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

Deep networks are prone to performance degradation when there is a domain shift between the source (training) data and target (test) data. Recent test-time adaptation methods update batch normalization layers of pre-trained source models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wenyu Zhang , Li Shen , Wanyue Zhang , Chuan-Sheng Foo

The existing few-shot video classification methods often employ a meta-learning paradigm by designing customized temporal alignment module for similarity calculation. While significant progress has been made, these methods fail to focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhenxi Zhu , Limin Wang , Sheng Guo , Gangshan Wu

Few-shot domain adaptation to multiple domains aims to learn a complex image distribution across multiple domains from a few training images. A na\"ive solution here is to train a separate model for each domain using few-shot domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Seongtae Kim , Kyoungkook Kang , Geonung Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

Transferring knowledge from one domain to another is of practical importance for many tasks in natural language processing, especially when the amount of available data in the target domain is limited. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Ali Davody , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

Annotated images and ground truth for the diagnosis of rare and novel diseases are scarce. This is expected to prevail, considering the small number of affected patient population and limited clinical expertise to annotate images. Further,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Karthik Desingu , Mirunalini P. , Aravindan Chandrabose