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We propose regression networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each class. In high dimensional embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

In the domain of Few-Shot Image Classification, operating with as little as one example per class, the presence of image ambiguities stemming from multiple objects or complex backgrounds can significantly deteriorate performance. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Aymane Abdali , Bartosz Boguslawski , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

We consider the problem of image classification for the purpose of aiding doctors in dermatological diagnosis. Dermatological diagnosis poses two major challenges for standard off-the-shelf techniques: First, the data distribution is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Viraj Prabhu , Anitha Kannan , Murali Ravuri , Manish Chablani , David Sontag , Xavier Amatriain

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen classes given only a few annotated support images. Most existing methods simply stitch query features with independent support prototypes and segment the query image by feeding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Kai Huang , Mingfei Cheng , Yang Wang , Bochen Wang , Ye Xi , Feigege Wang , Peng Chen

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

Few-shot image classification remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training examples. Augmenting them with synthetic data has emerged as a promising way to alleviate this issue, but models trained on synthetic samples often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lan-Cuong Nguyen , Quan Nguyen-Tri , Bang Tran Khanh , Dung D. Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Khoat Than

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Xinwei Sun , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Few-shot class incremental learning implies the model to learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned classes with a small number of training instances. Existing frameworks typically freeze the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Parinita Nema , Vinod K Kurmi

Few-shot learning has been studied to adapt models to tasks with very few samples. It holds profound significance, particularly in clinical tasks, due to the high annotation cost of medical images. Several works have explored few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Kaipeng Zheng , Weiran Huang , Lichao Sun

This paper presents a comprehensive study to efficiently build named entity recognition (NER) systems when a small number of in-domain labeled data is available. Based upon recent Transformer-based self-supervised pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiaxin Huang , Chunyuan Li , Krishan Subudhi , Damien Jose , Shobana Balakrishnan , Weizhu Chen , Baolin Peng , Jianfeng Gao , Jiawei Han

Few-shot segmentation is challenging because objects within the support and query images could significantly differ in appearance and pose. Using a single prototype acquired directly from the support image to segment the query image causes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Boyu Yang , Chang Liu , Bohao Li , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

New classes of sounds constantly emerge with a few samples, making it challenging for models to adapt to dynamic acoustic environments. This challenge motivates us to address the new problem of few-shot class-incremental audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Wei Xie , Yanxiong Li , Qianhua He , Wenchang Cao , Tuomas Virtanen

Few-shot learning aims to learn representations that can tackle novel tasks given a small number of examples. Recent studies show that cross-modal learning can improve representations for few-shot classification. More specifically, language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Vincent Michalski , Ramnath Kumar , Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Doina Precup , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition (FSOSR) targets a critical real-world challenge, aiming to categorize inputs into known categories, termed closed-set classes, while identifying open-set inputs that fall outside these classes. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Byeonggeun Kim , Juntae Lee , Kyuhong Shim , Simyung Chang

Few-shot Open-set Object Detection (FOOD) poses a challenge in many open-world scenarios. It aims to train an open-set detector to detect known objects while rejecting unknowns with scarce training samples. Existing FOOD methods are subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhaowei Wu , Binyi Su , Qichuan Geng , Hua Zhang , Zhong Zhou

The human visual system has the remarkably ability to be able to effortlessly learn novel concepts from only a few examples. Mimicking the same behavior on machine learning vision systems is an interesting and very challenging research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Training a modern deep neural network on massive labeled samples is the main paradigm in solving the scene classification problem for remote sensing, but learning from only a few data points remains a challenge. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Haifeng Li , Zhenqi Cui , Zhiqing Zhu , Li Chen , Jiawei Zhu , Haozhe Huang , Chao Tao

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

Few-shot classification aims at classifying categories of a novel task by learning from just a few (typically, 1 to 5) labelled examples. An effective approach to few-shot classification involves a prior model trained on a large-sample base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Rajshekhar Das , Yu-Xiong Wang , JoséM. F. Moura