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We introduce a few-shot learning framework for error detection. We show that data augmentation (a form of weak supervision) is key to training high-quality, ML-based error detection models that require minimal human involvement. Our…

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In object detection, data amount and cost are a trade-off, and collecting a large amount of data in a specific domain is labor intensive. Therefore, existing large-scale datasets are used for pre-training. However, conventional transfer…

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Infrared imagery enables temperature-based scene understanding using passive sensors, particularly under conditions of low visibility where traditional RGB imaging fails. Yet, developing downstream vision models for infrared applications is…

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Few-shot object detection (FSOD) is challenging due to unstable optimization and limited generalization arising from the scarcity of training samples. To address these issues, we propose a hybrid ensemble decoder that enhances…

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Modern computer vision systems increasingly encounter performance limitations in data-scarce domains, where collecting large-scale, high-quality labeled data is costly or impractical. While controllable diffusion models enable scalable…

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We investigate cross-domain few-shot learning under the constraint that fine-tuning of backbones (i.e., feature extractors) is impossible or infeasible -- a scenario that is increasingly common in practical use cases. Handling the…

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Large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have transformed general-purpose visual recognition through strong zero-shot capabilities. However, their performance degrades significantly in niche, safety-critical domains such as industrial…

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Diffusion models (DMs) produce high-quality images, yet their sampling remains costly when adapted to new domains. Distilled DMs are faster but typically remain confined within their teacher's domain. Thus, fast and high-quality generation…

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Iris presentation attack detection (PAD) has achieved remarkable success to ensure the reliability and security of iris recognition systems. Most existing methods exploit discriminative features in the spatial domain and report outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Yachun Li , Ying Lian , Jingjing Wang , Yuhui Chen , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Zero-shot domain adaptation is a method for adapting a model to a target domain without utilizing target domain image data. To enable adaptation without target images, existing studies utilize CLIP's embedding space and text description to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ye-Chan Kim , SeungJu Cha , Si-Woo Kim , Taewhan Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

Utility companies increasingly rely on drone imagery for post-event and routine inspection, but training accurate defect-type classifiers remains difficult because defect examples are rare and inspection datasets are often limited or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xuesong Wang , Caisheng Wang

We propose a few-shot adaptation framework, which bridges zero-shot learning and supervised many-shot learning, for semantic indexing of image and video data. Few-shot adaptation provides robust parameter estimation with few training…

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Scene Parsing is a crucial step to enable autonomous systems to understand and interact with their surroundings. Supervised deep learning methods have made great progress in solving scene parsing problems, however, come at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Keng-Chi Liu , Yi-Ting Shen , Jan P. Klopp , Liang-Gee Chen

Recent vision language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive anomaly detection performance under significant distribution shift by utilizing high-level semantic information through text prompts. However, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nadeem Nazer , Hongkuan Zhou , Lavdim Halilaj , Ylli Sadikaj , Steffen Staab

The performance of visual anomaly inspection in industrial quality control is often constrained by the scarcity of real anomalous samples. Consequently, anomaly synthesis techniques have been developed to enlarge training sets and enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yishen Liu , Hongcang Chen , Pengcheng Zhao , Yunfan Bao , Yuxi Tian , Jieming Zhang , Hao Chen , Zheng Zhi , Yongchun Liu , Ying Li , Dongpu Cao

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) expects models trained on base classes to work on novel classes with the help of a few support images. However, when there exists a domain gap between the base and novel classes, the state-of-the-art FSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yuhang Lu , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Song Wang

Ensuring the safety of surgical instruments requires reliable detection of visual defects. However, manual inspection is prone to error, and existing automated defect detection methods, typically trained on natural/industrial images, fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Joseph Huang , Yichi Zhang , Jingxi Yu , Wei Chen , Seunghyun Hwang , Qiang Qiu , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp , Fengqing Zhu

Boundary detection of irregular and translucent objects is an important problem with applications in medical imaging, environmental monitoring and manufacturing, where many of these applications are plagued with scarce labeled data and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fei Yu Guan , Ian Keefe , Sophie Wilkinson , Daniel D. B. Perrakis , Steven Waslander

Few-shot segmentation aims at assigning a category label to each image pixel with few annotated samples. It is a challenging task since the dense prediction can only be achieved under the guidance of latent features defined by sparse…

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