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 objects, as only few samples from target classes are provided. Therefore, the lack of a mechanism to match the scale and location between pairs of compared images leads to the performance degradation. The importance of image contents varies across coarse-to-fine scales depending on the object and its class label, e.g., generic objects and scenes rely on their global appearance while fine-grained objects rely more on their localized visual patterns. In this paper, we study the impact of scale and location mismatch in the few-shot learning scenario, and propose a novel Spatially-aware Matching (SM) scheme to effectively perform matching across multiple scales and locations, and learn image relations by giving the highest weights to the best matching pairs. The SM is trained to activate the most related locations and scales between support and query data. We apply and evaluate SM on various few-shot learning models and backbones for comprehensive evaluations. Furthermore, we leverage an auxiliary self-supervisory discriminator to train/predict the spatial- and scale-level index of feature vectors we use. Finally, we develop a novel transformer-based pipeline to exploit self- and cross-attention in a spatially-aware matching process. Our proposed design is orthogonal to the choice of backbone and/or comparator.
We propose a novel approach to few-shot action recognition, finding temporally-corresponding frame tuples between the query and videos in the support set. Distinct from previous few-shot works, we construct class prototypes using the CrossTransformer attention mechanism to observe relevant sub-sequences of all support videos, rather than using class averages or single best matches. Video representations are formed from ordered tuples of varying numbers of frames, which allows sub-sequences of actions at different speeds and temporal offsets to be compared. Our proposed Temporal-Relational Cros…
Given new tasks with very little data$-$such as new classes in a classification problem or a domain shift in the input$-$performance of modern vision systems degrades remarkably quickly. In this work, we illustrate how the neural network representations which underpin modern vision systems are subject to supervision collapse, whereby they lose any information that is not necessary for performing the training task, including information that may be necessary for transfer to new tasks or domains. We then propose two methods to mitigate this problem. First, we employ self-supervised learning to e…
We proposes a novel single-shot high dynamic range imaging scheme with spatially varying exposures (SVE) considering hue distortion. Single-shot imaging with SVE enables us to capture multi-exposure images from a single-shot image, so high dynamic range images can be produced without ghost artifacts. However, SVE images have some pixels at which a range supported by camera sensors is exceeded. Therefore, generated images have some color distortion, so that conventional imaging with SVE has never considered the influence of this range limitation. To overcome this issue, we consider estimating t…
This paper proposes a novel multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) scheme for single-shot high dynamic range imaging with spatially varying exposures (SVE). Single-shot imaging with SVE enables us not only to produce images without color saturation regions from a single-shot image, but also to avoid ghost artifacts in the producing ones. However, the number of exposures is generally limited to two, and moreover it is difficult to decide the optimum exposure values before the photographing. In the proposed scheme, a scene segmentation method is applied to input multi-exposure images, and then the lu…
MAGIC: Few-Shot Mask-Guided Anomaly Inpainting with Prompt Perturbation, Spatially Adaptive Guidance, and Context Awareness
Department of AI Semiconductor Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea（汉阳大学人工智能半导体工程系）；Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea（汉阳大学电子工程系）
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（韩国科学技术院）
Few-shot learning often involves metric learning-based classifiers, which predict the image label by comparing the distance between the extracted feature vector and class representations. However, applying global pooling in the backend of the feature extractor may not produce an embedding that correctly focuses on the class object. In this work, we propose a novel framework that generates class representations by extracting features from class-relevant regions of the images. Given only a few exemplary images with image-level labels, our framework first localizes the class objects by spatially …
Pyramidal feature representation is the common practice to address the challenge of scale variation in object detection. However, the inconsistency across different feature scales is a primary limitation for the single-shot detectors based on feature pyramid. In this work, we propose a novel and data driven strategy for pyramidal feature fusion, referred to as adaptively spatial feature fusion (ASFF). It learns the way to spatially filter conflictive information to suppress the inconsistency, thus improving the scale-invariance of features, and introduces nearly free inference overhead. With t…
Capturing the shape and spatially-varying appearance (SVBRDF) of an object from images is a challenging task that has applications in both computer vision and graphics. Traditional optimization-based approaches often need a large number of images taken from multiple views in a controlled environment. Newer deep learning-based approaches require only a few input images, but the reconstruction quality is not on par with optimization techniques. We propose a novel deep learning architecture with a stage-wise estimation of shape and SVBRDF. The previous predictions guide each estimation, and a joi…
Tsinghua University（清华大学）；University of Cincinnati（辛辛那提大学）
Visual surface inspection is a challenging task owing to the highly diverse appearance of target surfaces and defective regions. Previous attempts heavily rely on vast quantities of training examples with manual annotation. However, in some practical cases, it is difficult to obtain a large number of samples for inspection. To combat it, we propose a hierarchical texture-perceiving generative adversarial network (HTP-GAN) that is learned from the one-shot normal image in an unsupervised scheme. Specifically, the HTP-GAN contains a pyramid of convolutional GANs that can capture the global struc…
We present a single-shot system to recover surface geometry of objects with spatially-varying albedos, from images captured under a calibrated RGB photometric stereo setup---with three light directions multiplexed across different color channels in the observed RGB image. Since the problem is ill-posed point-wise, we assume that the albedo map can be modeled as piece-wise constant with a restricted number of distinct albedo values. We show that under ideal conditions, the shape of a non-degenerate local constant albedo surface patch can theoretically be recovered exactly. Moreover, we present …
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Heriot-Watt University Malaysia（赫瑞-瓦特大学马来西亚校区）；Huawei Cloud（华为云）
Few-shot action recognition aims to recognize novel action classes (query) using just a few samples (support). The majority of current approaches follow the metric learning paradigm, which learns to compare the similarity between videos. Recently, it has been observed that directly measuring this similarity is not ideal since different action instances may show distinctive temporal distribution, resulting in severe misalignment issues across query and support videos. In this paper, we arrest this problem from two distinct aspects -- action duration misalignment and action evolution misalignmen…
Show and Tell: Visually Explainable Deep Neural Nets via Spatially-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev（电气与计算机工程系，贝内-约尔大学内盖夫分校）；Data Science Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev（数据科学研究中心，贝内-约尔大学内盖夫分校）
Learning light-weight yet expressive deep networks in both image synthesis and image recognition remains a challenging problem. Inspired by a more recent observation that it is the data-specificity that makes the multi-head self-attention (MHSA) in the Transformer model so powerful, this paper proposes to extend the widely adopted light-weight Squeeze-Excitation (SE) module to be spatially-adaptive to reinforce its data specificity, as a convolutional alternative of the MHSA, while retaining the efficiency of SE and the inductive basis of convolution. It presents two designs of spatially-adapt…
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；Institute for Infocomm Research（资讯通信研究院）
Spatially varying exposure (SVE) is a promising choice for high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging (HDRI). The SVE-based HDRI, which is called single-shot HDRI, is an efficient solution to avoid ghosting artifacts. However, it is very challenging to restore a full-resolution HDR image from a real-world image with SVE because: a) only one-third of pixels with varying exposures are captured by camera in a Bayer pattern, b) some of the captured pixels are over- and under-exposed. For the former challenge, a spatially varying convolution (SVC) is designed to process the Bayer images carried with varying …
Hierarchical Compositional Representations for Few-shot Action Recognition
Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS（中国科学院智能信息处理重点实验室，中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS（国科大杭州高等研究院）；Beijing Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd（北京华为云计算技术有限公司）
UniTriGen: Unified Triplet Generation of Aligned Visible-Infrared-Label for Few-Shot RGB-T Semantic Segmentation
School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学计算机学院）；School of Computer Science & Technology, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications（西安邮电大学计算机科学与技术学院）；MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学MMLab）
Boosting Pathology Foundation Models via Few-shot Prompt-tuning for Rare Cancer Subtyping
School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学人工智能学院）；Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School（哈佛医学院生物医学信息学系）；Department of Oral Pathology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院第九人民医院口腔病学部）；Department of Pathology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院新华医院病理科）；Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院新华医院儿童血液肿瘤科）；Clinical Research and Innovation Unit, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院新华医院临床研究与创新单元）；Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
In this paper, we tackle one-shot texture retrieval: given an example of a new reference texture, detect and segment all the pixels of the same texture category within an arbitrary image. To address this problem, we present an OS-TR network to encode both reference and query image, leading to achieve texture segmentation towards the reference category. Unlike the existing texture encoding methods that integrate CNN with orderless pooling, we propose a directionality-aware module to capture the texture variations at each direction, resulting in spatially invariant representation. To segment new…
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA（弗劳恩霍夫制造工程与自动化研究所（IPA））；University of Stuttgart（斯图加特大学）
In this paper, we introduce a novel single shot approach for 6D object pose estimation of rigid objects based on depth images. For this purpose, a fully convolutional neural network is employed, where the 3D input data is spatially discretized and pose estimation is considered as a regression task that is solved locally on the resulting volume elements. With 65 fps on a GPU, our Object Pose Network (OP-Net) is extremely fast, is optimized end-to-end, and estimates the 6D pose of multiple objects in the image simultaneously. Our approach does not require manually 6D pose-annotated real-world da…
Bridging Vision Foundation Model Priors with CLIP for Spatial-aware Few-shot Anomaly Detection in Medical Images
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Institute of Medical Intelligence and XR, The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学医学智能与扩展现实研究所）
We present an information-theoretic regularization technique for few-shot novel view synthesis based on neural implicit representation. The proposed approach minimizes potential reconstruction inconsistency that happens due to insufficient viewpoints by imposing the entropy constraint of the density in each ray. In addition, to alleviate the potential degenerate issue when all training images are acquired from almost redundant viewpoints, we further incorporate the spatially smoothness constraint into the estimated images by restricting information gains from a pair of rays with slightly diffe…
ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学）；Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海微系统与信息技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Recent neural rendering approaches for human activities achieve remarkable view synthesis results, but still rely on dense input views or dense training with all the capture frames, leading to deployment difficulty and inefficient training overload. However, existing advances will be ill-posed if the input is both spatially and temporally sparse. To fill this gap, in this paper we propose a few-shot neural human rendering approach (FNHR) from only sparse RGBD inputs, which exploits the temporal and spatial redundancy to generate photo-realistic free-view output of human activities. Our FNHR is…
Idiap Research Institute（IDIAP研究所）；École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne（洛桑联邦理工学院）；University of California, Santa Barbara（加州大学圣巴巴拉分校）
Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with high-resolution microscopes leads to unsharp image regions and makes depth localization and quantitative image interpretation difficult. Here, we present a method that improves the resolution of light microscopy images of such objects by locally estimating image distortion while jointly estimating object distance to the focal plane. Specifically, we estimat…
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（韩国科学技术院）
There are many recent research efforts to fine-tune a pre-trained generator with a few target images to generate images of a novel domain. Unfortunately, these methods often suffer from overfitting or under-fitting when fine-tuned with a single target image. To address this, here we present a novel single-shot GAN adaptation method through unified CLIP space manipulations. Specifically, our model employs a two-step training strategy: reference image search in the source generator using a CLIP-guided latent optimization, followed by generator fine-tuning with a novel loss function that imposes …
Zero-Shot SAM2 Segmentation and Vision Transformer-Based Recognition of Elamite Cuneiform Symbols from Degraded Tablet Images
Vellore Institute of Technology（韦洛尔理工学院）；Indian Institute of Technology（印度理工学院）；WestCliff University（韦斯特克利夫大学）；York St John University（约克圣约翰大学）；Norwegian University of Science and Technology（挪威科技大学）
Whole-Slide Image Analysis under Realistic Few-Shot Annotation Protocols
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics, and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)（天主教鲁汶大学信息与通信技术、电子与应用数学研究所）
针对现实 whole-slide 图像场景的小样本标注问题，提出 SlideCRF 模型，结合空间与生物线索优化预测，在四个数据集上宏观 F1 较现有转导方法更优，零样本预测提升显著。
AG-VAS: Anchor-Guided Zero-Shot Visual Anomaly Segmentation with Large Multimodal Models
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Casivision（中科视语）；Weiqiao-UCAS Science and Technology Park（魏桥国科科技园）
