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Among the neural network compression techniques, knowledge distillation is an effective one which forces a simpler student network to mimic the output of a larger teacher network. However, most of such model distillation methods focus on…

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Few-shot segmentation focuses on the generalization of models to segment unseen object with limited annotated samples. However, existing approaches still face two main challenges. First, huge feature distinction between support and query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Qi Zhao , Binghao Liu , Shuchang Lyu , Huojin Chen

Real-world object detection is highly desired to be equipped with the learning expandability that can enlarge its detection classes incrementally. Moreover, such learning from only few annotated training samples further adds the flexibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

With such a massive growth in the number of images stored, efficient search in a database has become a crucial endeavor managed by image retrieval systems. Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback (IRRF) involves iterative human interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Boaz Lerner , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

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

Few-Shot learning aims to train and optimize a model that can adapt to unseen visual classes with only a few labeled examples. The existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods, heavily rely only on visual data, thus fail to capture the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

Through a simple multiple choice language prompt a VQA model can operate as a zero-shot image classifier, producing a classification label. Compared to typical image encoders, VQA models offer an advantage: VQA-produced image embeddings can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Dipika Khullar , Emmett Goodman , Negin Sokhandan

Large-scale federated learning (FL) over wireless multiple access channels (MACs) has emerged as a crucial learning paradigm with a wide range of applications. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by several major challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Vineet Sunil Gattani , Junshan Zhang , Gautam Dasarathy

In contrast to supervised backpropagation-based feature learning in deep neural networks (DNNs), an unsupervised feedforward feature (UFF) learning scheme for joint classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds is proposed in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Min Zhang , Pranav Kadam , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) requires distinguishing between visually similar categories through subtle, localized features - a task that remains challenging due to high intra-class variability and limited inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Johann Schmidt , Sebastian Stober , Joachim Denzler , Paul Bodesheim

Deep learning becomes an elevated context regarding disposing of many machine learning tasks and has shown a breakthrough upliftment to extract features from unstructured data. Though this flourishing context is developing in the medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Jannatul Nayem , Sayed Sahriar Hasan , Noshin Amina , Bristy Das , Md Shahin Ali , Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman

Learning from a few examples is a challenging task for machine learning. While recent progress has been made for this problem, most of the existing methods ignore the compositionality in visual concept representation (e.g. objects are built…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ping Hu , Ximeng Sun , Kate Saenko , Stan Sclaroff

Few-shot learning aims to transfer information from one task to enable generalization on novel tasks given a few examples. This information is present both in the domain and the class labels. In this work we investigate the complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Orchid Majumder , Avinash Ravichandran , Subhransu Maji , Alessandro Achille , Marzia Polito , Stefano Soatto

Segmentation refinement aims to enhance the initial coarse masks generated by segmentation algorithms. The refined masks are expected to capture more details and better contours of the target objects. Research on segmentation refinement has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Seonghyeon Moon , Qingze , Liu , Haein Kong , Muhammad Haris Khan

The field of Few-Shot Learning (FSL), or learning from very few (typically $1$ or $5$) examples per novel class (unseen during training), has received a lot of attention and significant performance advances in the recent literature. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moshe Lichtenstein , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Raja Giryes , Leonid Karlinsky

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is a dense prediction task that aims to infer the pixel-wise labels of unseen classes using only a limited number of annotated images. The key challenge in FSS is to classify the labels of query pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wenbo Xu , Huaxi Huang , Ming Cheng , Litao Yu , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

Accurate and timely identification of plant leaf diseases is essential for resilient and sustainable agriculture, yet most deep learning approaches rely on large annotated datasets and computationally intensive models that are unsuitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anika Islam , Tasfia Tahsin , Zaarin Anjum , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Popular approaches for few-shot classification consist of first learning a generic data representation based on a large annotated dataset, before adapting the representation to new classes given only a few labeled samples. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Nikita Dvornik , Cordelia Schmid , Julien Mairal

Few-shot learning refers to understanding new concepts from only a few examples. We propose an information retrieval-inspired approach for this problem that is motivated by the increased importance of maximally leveraging all the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Eleni Triantafillou , Richard Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

Current few-shot learning models capture visual object relations in the so-called meta-learning setting under a fixed-resolution input. However, such models have a limited generalization ability under the scale and location mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hongguang Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Piotr Koniusz