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User-defined keyword spotting is a task to detect new spoken terms defined by users. This can be viewed as a few-shot learning problem since it is unreasonable for users to define their desired keywords by providing many examples. To solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Wei-Tsung Kao , Yuan-Kuei Wu , Chia-Ping Chen , Zhi-Sheng Chen , Yu-Pao Tsai , Hung-Yi Lee

Deep Learning (DL) models have been widely deployed on IoT devices with the help of advancements in DL algorithms and chips. However, the limited resources of edge devices make these on-device DL models hard to be generalizable to diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Bufang Yang , Lixing He , Neiwen Ling , Zhenyu Yan , Guoliang Xing , Xian Shuai , Xiaozhe Ren , Xin Jiang

Few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) focuses on jointly performing multi-label classification and multi-class segmentation using few annotated examples. Although the current state of the art (SOTA) achieves high accuracy in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dustin Carrión-Ojeda , Stefan Roth , Simone Schaub-Meyer

In this paper, we study the performance of few-shot learning, specifically meta learning empowered few-shot relation networks, over supervised deep learning and conventional machine learning approaches in the problem of Sound Source…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Amirreza Sobhdel , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Vasile Palade

Recent approaches for few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation typically require a two-stage learning process, i.e., a pre-training stage followed by a few-shot training stage. While effective, these methods face overreliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiahui Wang , Haiyue Zhu , Haoren Guo , Abdullah Al Mamun , Cheng Xiang , Tong Heng Lee

Deep autoregressive models have shown state-of-the-art performance in density estimation for natural images on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet. However, such models require many thousands of gradient-based weight updates and unique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Scott Reed , Yutian Chen , Thomas Paine , Aäron van den Oord , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo Rezende , Oriol Vinyals , Nando de Freitas

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

Many applications involve detecting and localizing specific sound events within long, untrimmed documents, including keyword spotting, medical observation, and bioacoustic monitoring for conservation. Deep learning techniques often set the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Piper Wolters , Logan Sizemore , Chris Daw , Brian Hutchinson , Lauren Phillips

We study few-shot acoustic event detection (AED) in this paper. Few-shot learning enables detection of new events with very limited labeled data. Compared to other research areas like computer vision, few-shot learning for audio recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Bowen Shi , Ming Sun , Krishna C. Puvvada , Chieh-Chi Kao , Spyros Matsoukas , Chao Wang

We address the challenge of detecting synthesized speech under distribution shifts -- arising from unseen synthesis methods, speakers, languages, or audio conditions -- relative to the training data. Few-shot learning methods are a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ashi Garg , Zexin Cai , Henry Li Xinyuan , Leibny Paola García-Perera , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Matthew Wiesner , Nicholas Andrews

Fixed-point (FXP) inference has proven suitable for embedded devices with limited computational resources, and yet model training is continually performed in floating-point (FLP). FXP training has not been fully explored and the non-trivial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Sashank Macha , Om Oza , Alex Escott , Francesco Caliva , Robbie Armitano , Santosh Kumar Cheekatmalla , Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi , Yuzong Liu

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

Precise Event Spotting aims to localize fast-paced actions or events in videos with high temporal precision, a key task for applications in sports analytics, robotics, and autonomous systems. Existing methods typically process all frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Artur Xarles , Sergio Escalera , Thomas B. Moeslund , Albert Clapés

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

Each scanner possesses its unique characteristics and exhibits its distinct sampling error distribution. Training a network on a dataset that includes data collected from different scanners is less effective than training it on data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zhikun Tu , Yuhe Zhang , Yiou Jia , Kang Li , Daniel Cohen-Or

This paper presents FusionShot, a focal diversity optimized few-shot ensemble learning approach for boosting the robustness and generalization performance of pre-trained few-shot models. The paper makes three original contributions. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Selim Furkan Tekin , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Sihao Hu , Ka-Ho Chow , Margaret L. Loper , Ling Liu

Speech recognition has become an important task in the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this study, we explore the important task of keyword spotting using speech recognition machine learning and deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Sumedha Rai , Tong Li , Bella Lyu

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

Few-shot detection and classification have advanced significantly in recent years. Yet, detection approaches require strong annotation (bounding boxes) both for pre-training and for adaptation to novel classes, and classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Leonid Karlinsky , Joseph Shtok , Amit Alfassy , Moshe Lichtenstein , Sivan Harary , Eli Schwartz , Sivan Doveh , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Alexander Bronstein , Raja Giryes

Monocular depth estimation is an important task that can be applied to many robotic applications. Existing methods focus on improving depth estimation accuracy via training increasingly deeper and wider networks, however these suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass , Junyu Dong