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Transfer learning has been widely adopted for few-shot classification. Recent studies reveal that obtaining good generalization representation of images on novel classes is the key to improving the few-shot classification accuracy. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Sai Yang , Fan Liu , Delong Chen , Jun Zhou

Adapting pre-trained representations has become the go-to recipe for learning new downstream tasks with limited examples. While literature has demonstrated great successes via representation learning, in this work, we show that substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Xiao Lin , Meng Ye , Yunye Gong , Giedrius Buracas , Nikoletta Basiou , Ajay Divakaran , Yi Yao

This paper presents a novel few-shot cross-domain anomaly detection framework, Nexus Vision Transformer for Anomaly Detection (NexViTAD), based on vision foundation models, which effectively addresses domain-shift challenges in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Tianwei Mu , Feiyu Duan , Bo Zhou , Dan Xue , Manhong Huang

We study few-shot learning in natural language domains. Compared to many existing works that apply either metric-based or optimization-based meta-learning to image domain with low inter-task variance, we consider a more realistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Jinfeng Yi , Shiyu Chang , Saloni Potdar , Yu Cheng , Gerald Tesauro , Haoyu Wang , Bowen Zhou

Single image-level annotations only correctly describe an often small subset of an image's content, particularly when complex real-world scenes are depicted. While this might be acceptable in many classification scenarios, it poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Markus Hiller , Rongkai Ma , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond

Few-shot learning (FSL) approaches are usually based on an assumption that the pre-trained knowledge can be obtained from base (seen) categories and can be well transferred to novel (unseen) categories. However, there is no guarantee,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Manisha Verma , Yuta Nakashima , Ryo Kawasaki , Hajime Nagahara

Motivation: Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) visualizes structure and spatial organization of macromolecules and their interactions with other subcellular components inside single cells in the close-to-native state at sub-molecular…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-31 Liangyong Yu , Ran Li , Xiangrui Zeng , Hongyi Wang , Jie Jin , Ge Yang , Rui Jiang , Min Xu

Transfer learning has become an essential tool in modern computer vision, allowing practitioners to leverage backbones, pretrained on large datasets, to train successful models from limited annotated data. Choosing the right backbone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Joris Guerin , Shray Bansal , Amirreza Shaban , Paulo Mann , Harshvardhan Gazula

Effective image classification hinges on discerning relevant features from both foreground and background elements, with the foreground typically holding the critical information. While humans adeptly classify images with limited exposure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Weihao Jiang , Haoyang Cui , Kun He

Meta-learning aims at learning quickly on novel tasks with limited data by transferring generic experience learned from previous tasks. Naturally, few-shot learning has been one of the most popular applications for meta-learning. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yudong Chen , Chaoyu Guan , Zhikun Wei , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Presently, the task of few-shot object detection (FSOD) in remote sensing images (RSIs) has become a focal point of attention. Numerous few-shot detectors, particularly those based on two-stage detectors, face challenges when dealing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wenbin Guan , Zijiu Yang , Xiaohong Wu , Liqiong Chen , Feng Huang , Xiaohai He , Honggang Chen

Transfer learning based approaches have recently achieved promising results on the few-shot detection task. These approaches however suffer from ``catastrophic forgetting'' issue due to finetuning of base detector, leading to sub-optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yihang She , Goutam Bhat , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

The goal of few-shot learning is to learn a classifier that can recognize unseen classes from limited support data with labels. A common practice for this task is to train a model on the base set first and then transfer to novel classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Marios Savvides , Kwang-Ting Cheng

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 recent popularity of foundation models and the pre-train-and-adapt paradigm, where a large-scale model is transferred to downstream tasks, is gaining attention for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, current transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Modern deep learning requires large-scale extensively labelled datasets for training. Few-shot learning aims to alleviate this issue by learning effectively from few labelled examples. In previously proposed few-shot visual classifiers, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Peyman Bateni , Jarred Barber , Raghav Goyal , Vaden Masrani , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Leonid Sigal , Frank Wood

Few-shot relation classification (RC) is one of the critical problems in machine learning. Current research merely focuses on the set-ups that both training and testing are from the same domain. However, in practice, this assumption is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jirui Qi , Richong Zhang , Chune Li , Yongyi Mao

We present LAVA, a simple yet effective method for multi-domain visual transfer learning with limited data. LAVA builds on a few recent innovations to enable adapting to partially labelled datasets with class and domain shifts. First, LAVA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Islam Nassar , Munawar Hayat , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Hamid Rezatofighi , Mehrtash Harandi , Gholamreza Haffari

Few-shot object detection (FSOD), which aims at learning a generic detector that can adapt to unseen tasks with scarce training samples, has witnessed consistent improvement recently. However, most existing methods ignore the efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ze Yang , Chi Zhang , Ruibo Li , Yi Xu , Guosheng Lin

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has achieved great success on segmenting objects of novel classes, supported by only a few annotated samples. However, existing FSS methods often underperform in the presence of domain shifts, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jiapeng Su , Qi Fan , Guangming Lu , Fanglin Chen , Wenjie Pei