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Few-shot image classification aims at training a model from only a few examples for each of the "novel" classes. This paper proposes the idea of associative alignment for leveraging part of the base data by aligning the novel training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Arman Afrasiyabi , Jean-François Lalonde , Christian Gagné

Few-shot learning (FSL) often requires effective adaptation of models using limited labeled data. However, most existing FSL methods rely on entangled representations, requiring the model to implicitly recover the unmixing process to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Yuhang Liu , Javen Qinfeng Shi

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

Few-shot learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Most existing few-shot learning approaches belong to either metric-based meta-learning or optimization-based meta-learning category,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Duo Wang , Yu Cheng , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Tao Zhang

While few-shot learning (FSL) aims for rapid generalization to new concepts with little supervision, self-supervised learning (SSL) constructs supervisory signals directly computed from unlabeled data. Exploiting the complementarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhengyu Chen , Jixie Ge , Heshen Zhan , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved high performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, the performance of CNNs depends heavily on a large amount of training data. The insufficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Chenwei Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Jianyu Yang , Deqing Mao

Object detection in remote sensing images relies on a large amount of labeled data for training. However, the increasing number of new categories and class imbalance make exhaustive annotation impractical. Few-shot object detection (FSOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Turgay Celik , Zongxin Gan , Heng-Chao Li

Recent Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods put emphasis on generating a discriminative embedding features to precisely measure the similarity between support and query sets. Current CNN-based cross-attention approaches generate discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jinxiang Lai , Siqian Yang , Wenlong Wu , Tao Wu , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Wei Zhang , Yuan Xie , Chengjie Wang

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) is critical for bridging the communication gap between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community and the hearing world. However, robust ISLR is fundamentally constrained by data scarcity and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Meher Md Saad

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is a challenging continual learning task, where limited training examples are available during several learning sessions. To succeed in this task, it is necessary to avoid over-fitting new classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Marco D'Alessandro , Alberto Alonso , Enrique Calabrés , Mikel Galar

Traditional semantic segmentation tasks require a large number of labels and are difficult to identify unlearned categories. Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to use limited labeled support images to identify the segmentation of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xianglin Wang , Xiaoliu Luo , Taiping Zhang

The task of Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to do the inference on novel categories containing only few labeled examples, with the help of knowledge learned from base categories containing abundant labeled training samples. While there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Chengming Xu , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Zhanxiong Wang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel queries with limited support samples by learning from base knowledge. Recent progress in this setting assumes that the base knowledge and novel query samples are distributed in the same domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yifan Zhao , Tong Zhang , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

Industrial defect segmentation is critical for manufacturing quality control. Due to the scarcity of training defect samples, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) holds significant value in this field. However, existing studies mostly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tongkun Liu , Bing Li , Xiao Jin , Yupeng Shi , Qiuying Li , Xiang Wei

Sound event detection is to infer the event by understanding the surrounding environmental sounds. Due to the scarcity of rare sound events, it becomes challenging for the well-trained detectors which have learned too much prior knowledge.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Chendong Zhao , Jianzong Wang , Leilai Li , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image captioning enables scene-level semantic understanding and plays a crucial role in applications such as military intelligence and urban planning, but its development is limited by the scarcity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Jinqi Zhang , Lamei Zhang , Bin Zou

Transferring vision-language knowledge from pretrained multimodal foundation models to various downstream tasks is a promising direction. However, most current few-shot action recognition methods are still limited to a single visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Hangjie Yuan , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Deli Zhao , Nong Sang

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown impressive generalization capabilities, yet their potential for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) remains underexplored, where the model needs to transfer source-domain information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhao Li , Qiangchang Wang , Xianjing Meng , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin