Few-shot image classification (FSIC), which requires a model to recognize new categories via learning from few images of these categories, has attracted lots of attention. Recently, meta-learning based methods have been shown as a promising direction for FSIC. Commonly, they train a meta-learner (meta-learning model) to learn easy fine-tuning weight, and when solving an FSIC task, the meta-learner efficiently fine-tunes itself to a task-specific model by updating itself on few images of the task. In this paper, we propose a novel meta-learning based layer-wise adaptive updating (LWAU) method for FSIC. LWAU is inspired by an interesting finding that compared with common deep models, the meta-learner pays much more attention to update its top layer when learning from few images. According to this finding, we assume that the meta-learner may greatly prefer updating its top layer to updating its bottom layers for better FSIC performance. Therefore, in LWAU, the meta-learner is trained to learn not only the easy fine-tuning model but also its favorite layer-wise adaptive updating rule to improve its learning efficiency. Extensive experiments show that with the layer-wise adaptive updating rule, the proposed LWAU: 1) outperforms existing few-shot classification methods with a clear margin; 2) learns from few images more efficiently by at least 5 times than existing meta-learners when solving FSIC.
Max Planck Institute for Informatics（马克斯·普朗克信息学研究所）；Singapore Management University（新加坡管理大学）
Few-shot learning aims to train efficient predictive models with a few examples. The lack of training data leads to poor models that perform high-variance or low-confidence predictions. In this paper, we propose to meta-learn the ensemble of epoch-wise empirical Bayes models (E3BM) to achieve robust predictions. "Epoch-wise" means that each training epoch has a Bayes model whose parameters are specifically learned and deployed. "Empirical" means that the hyperparameters, e.g., used for learning and ensembling the epoch-wise models, are generated by hyperprior learners conditional on task-speci…
University of California, Merced（加利福尼亚大学默塞德分校）；Virginia Tech（弗吉尼亚理工大学）；Google Research（谷歌研究院）；Yonsei University（延世大学）
Few-shot classification aims to recognize novel categories with only few labeled images in each class. Existing metric-based few-shot classification algorithms predict categories by comparing the feature embeddings of query images with those from a few labeled images (support examples) using a learned metric function. While promising performance has been demonstrated, these methods often fail to generalize to unseen domains due to large discrepancy of the feature distribution across domains. In this work, we address the problem of few-shot classification under domain shifts for metric-based me…
Few-shot learning, which aims at extracting new concepts rapidly from extremely few examples of novel classes, has been featured into the meta-learning paradigm recently. Yet, the key challenge of how to learn a generalizable classifier with the capability of adapting to specific tasks with severely limited data still remains in this domain. To this end, we propose a Transductive Episodic-wise Adaptive Metric (TEAM) framework for few-shot learning, by integrating the meta-learning paradigm with both deep metric learning and transductive inference. With exploring the pairwise constraints and re…
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Northwestern University（西北大学）
While few-shot classification has been widely explored with similarity based methods, few-shot sequence labeling poses a unique challenge as it also calls for modeling the label dependencies. To consider both the item similarity and label dependency, we propose to leverage the conditional random fields (CRFs) in few-shot sequence labeling. It calculates emission score with similarity based methods and obtains transition score with a specially designed transfer mechanism. When applying CRF in the few-shot scenarios, the discrepancy of label sets among different domains makes it hard to use the …
Kim Jaechul Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, KAIST（韩国科学技术院金宰澈人工智能研究生院）；Graduate School of Data Science, KAIST（韩国科学技术院数据科学研究生院）
Most of the recent few-shot learning (FSL) algorithms are based on transfer learning, where a model is pre-trained using a large amount of source data, and the pre-trained model is fine-tuned using a small amount of target data. In transfer learning-based FSL, sophisticated pre-training methods have been widely studied for universal representation. Therefore, it has become more important to utilize the universal representation for downstream tasks, but there are few studies on fine-tuning in FSL. In this paper, we focus on how to transfer pre-trained models to few-shot downstream tasks from th…
Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a variety of few-shot tasks and thus still require large-scale training data with fine-grained supervision to derive a generalized model, thereby involving prohibitive annotation cost. In this paper, we advance the few-shot classification paradigm towards a more challenging scenario, i.e., cross-granularity few-shot classification, where the model observes only …
Xi’an University of Technology（西安理工大学）；Shaanxi College of Communication Technology（陕西交通职业技术学院）
Few-shot learning can find the latent structure information between the prior knowledge and the queried data by the similarity metric of meta-learning to construct the discriminative model for recognizing the new categories with the rare labeled samples. Most existing methods try to model the similarity relationship of the samples in the intra tasks, and generalize the model to identify the new categories. However, the relationship of samples between the separated tasks is difficultly considered because of the different metric criterion in the respective tasks. In contrast, the proposed high-o…
Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks can easily overfit to novel examples if they are simply fine-tuned using only a few examples. In this study, we show that in the commonly used low-resolution mini-ImageNet dataset, the fine-tuning method achieves higher accuracy than common few-shot learning algorithms in the 1-shot task and nearly the same accuracy as that of the state-of-the-art algorithm…
Anomaly detection in surveillance videos has been recently gaining attention. Even though the performance of state-of-the-art methods on publicly available data sets has been competitive, they demand a massive amount of training data. Also, they lack a concrete approach for continuously updating the trained model once new data is available. Furthermore, online decision making is an important but mostly neglected factor in this domain. Motivated by these research gaps, we propose an online anomaly detection method for surveillance videos using transfer learning and any-shot learning, which in t…
WISER: Wider Search, Deeper Thinking, and Adaptive Fusion for Training-Free Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
Foundation Model Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所基础模型研究中心）；School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学先进交叉学科学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Wuhan AI Research（武汉人工智能研究院）；Minzu University of China（民族大学）
TokenCLIP: Token-wise Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection
Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Tencent YouTu Lab（腾讯YouTu实验室）；Singapore Management University（新加坡管理学院）；Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences)（青岛科技大学（山东科学院））
University of Wisconsin-Madison（威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校）；Futurewei Technologies；University of Rochester（罗切斯特大学）
The successful application of deep learning to many visual recognition tasks relies heavily on the availability of a large amount of labeled data which is usually expensive to obtain. The few-shot learning problem has attracted increasing attention from researchers for building a robust model upon only a few labeled samples. Most existing works tackle this problem under the meta-learning framework by mimicking the few-shot learning task with an episodic training strategy. In this paper, we propose a new transfer-learning framework for semi-supervised few-shot learning to fully utilize the auxi…
We present a simple generative framework for learning to predict previously unseen classes, based on estimating class-attribute-gated class-conditional distributions. We model each class-conditional distribution as an exponential family distribution and the parameters of the distribution of each seen/unseen class are defined as functions of the respective observed class attributes. These functions can be learned using only the seen class data and can be used to predict the parameters of the class-conditional distribution of each unseen class. Unlike most existing methods for zero-shot learning…
In real-world applications (e.g., change detection), annotating images is very expensive. To build effective deep learning models in these applications, deep few-shot learning methods have been developed and prove to be a robust approach in small training data. The analysis of building change detection from high spatial resolution remote sensing observations is important research in photogrammetry, computer vision, and remote sensing nowadays, which can be widely used in a variety of real-world applications, such as map updating. As manual high resolution image interpretation is expensive and …
The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN（理化学研究所先进智能研究中心）；Data Science Research Laboratories, NEC（日本电气公司数据科学研究实验室）；Future University Hakodate（函馆未来大学）
In this paper, we propose a novel domain adaptation method that can be applied without target data. We consider the situation where domain shift is caused by a prior change of a specific factor and assume that we know how the prior changes between source and target domains. We call this factor an attribute, and reformulate the domain adaptation problem to utilize the attribute prior instead of target data. In our method, the source data are reweighted with the sample-wise weight estimated by the attribute prior and the data themselves so that they are useful in the target domain. We theoretica…
AnoRefiner: Anomaly-Aware Group-Wise Refinement for Zero-Shot Industrial Anomaly Detection
School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学电子信息与通信学院）；Hubei Key Laboratory of Smart Internet Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学智能互联网技术重点实验室）；Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Wuhan JingCe Electronic Group Co., LTD（武汉景创电子集团有限公司人工智能研究所）；Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento（特伦托大学信息工程与计算机科学系）
Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona（巴塞罗那自治大学计算机视觉中心）；Google Brain（谷歌大脑）
A family of recent successful approaches to few-shot learning relies on learning an embedding space in which predictions are made by computing similarities between examples. This corresponds to combining information between support and query examples at a very late stage of the prediction pipeline. Inspired by this observation, we hypothesize that there may be benefits to combining the information at various levels of abstraction along the pipeline. We present an architecture called Cross-Modulation Networks which allows support and query examples to interact throughout the feature extraction …
MetaWearS: A Shortcut in Wearable Systems Lifecycle with Only a Few Shots
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)（洛桑联邦理工学院）；University of Tehran（德黑兰大学）；Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)（基础科学研究所）；Lund University（隆德大学）
Few-shot class incremental learning -- the problem of updating a trained classifier to discriminate among an expanded set of classes with limited labeled data -- is a key challenge for machine learning systems deployed in non-stationary environments. Existing approaches to the problem rely on complex model architectures and training procedures that are difficult to tune and re-use. In this paper, we present an extremely simple approach that enables the use of ordinary logistic regression classifiers for few-shot incremental learning. The key to this approach is a new family of subspace regular…
Adaptive Cortically Constrained EEG-Vision Alignment for Zero-Shot Brain-to-Image Retrieval
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications（重庆邮电大学）；Shanghai Jiaotong University（上海交通大学）；Chongqing Normal University（重庆师范大学）；South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）
UC Irvine（加州大学欧文分校）；University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）；UC Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；Facebook AI Research（脸书人工智能研究院）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）
Prompting language models (LMs) with training examples and task descriptions has been seen as critical to recent successes in few-shot learning. In this work, we show that finetuning LMs in the few-shot setting can considerably reduce the need for prompt engineering. In fact, one can use null prompts, prompts that contain neither task-specific templates nor training examples, and achieve competitive accuracy to manually-tuned prompts across a wide range of tasks. While finetuning LMs does introduce new parameters for each downstream task, we show that this memory overhead can be substantially …
Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning with Coalescent Projections and Latent Space Reservation
STEM, University of South Australia（南澳大利亚大学STEM学院）；Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院系统研究所）；Departement of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember（十月份十号技术大学信息学院）
Xiamen University（厦门大学）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Tencent（腾讯）；Peking University（北京大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）
Online image hashing has received increasing research attention recently, which processes large-scale data in a streaming fashion to update the hash functions on-the-fly. To this end, most existing works exploit this problem under a supervised setting, i.e., using class labels to boost the hashing performance, which suffers from the defects in both adaptivity and efficiency: First, large amounts of training batches are required to learn up-to-date hash functions, which leads to poor online adaptivity. Second, the training is time-consuming, which contradicts with the core need of online learni…
Few-shot natural language processing (NLP) refers to NLP tasks that are accompanied with merely a handful of labeled examples. This is a real-world challenge that an AI system must learn to handle. Usually we rely on collecting more auxiliary information or developing a more efficient learning algorithm. However, the general gradient-based optimization in high capacity models, if training from scratch, requires many parameter-updating steps over a large number of labeled examples to perform well (Snell et al., 2017). If the target task itself cannot provide more information, how about collecti…
Zero-shot learning has been actively studied for image classification task to relieve the burden of annotating image labels. Interestingly, semantic segmentation task requires more labor-intensive pixel-wise annotation, but zero-shot semantic segmentation has only attracted limited research interest. Thus, we focus on zero-shot semantic segmentation, which aims to segment unseen objects with only category-level semantic representations provided for unseen categories. In this paper, we propose a novel Context-aware feature Generation Network (CaGNet), which can synthesize context-aware pixel-wi…
Tongji University（同济大学）；King’s College London（伦敦国王学院）
In visual recognition tasks, few-shot learning requires the ability to learn object categories with few support examples. Its re-popularity in light of the deep learning development is mainly in image classification. This work focuses on few-shot semantic segmentation, which is still a largely unexplored field. A few recent advances are often restricted to single-class few-shot segmentation. In this paper, we first present a novel multi-way (class) encoding and decoding architecture which effectively fuses multi-scale query information and multi-class support information into one query-support…
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Tencent AI Lab（腾讯人工智能实验室）
Model compression has been widely adopted to obtain light-weighted deep neural networks. Most prevalent methods, however, require fine-tuning with sufficient training data to ensure accuracy, which could be challenged by privacy and security issues. As a compromise between privacy and performance, in this paper we investigate few shot network compression: given few samples per class, how can we effectively compress the network with negligible performance drop? The core challenge of few shot network compression lies in high estimation errors from the original network during inference, since the…
Xiamen University（厦门大学）；Tencent（腾讯）；Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）；Macau University of Science and Technology（澳门科技大学）
We introduce a one-shot segmentation method to alleviate the burden of manual annotation for medical images. The main idea is to treat one-shot segmentation as a classical atlas-based segmentation problem, where voxel-wise correspondence from the atlas to the unlabelled data is learned. Subsequently, segmentation label of the atlas can be transferred to the unlabelled data with the learned correspondence. However, since ground truth correspondence between images is usually unavailable, the learning system must be well-supervised to avoid mode collapse and convergence failure. To overcome this …
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；OpenAI；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Google Research（谷歌研究院）；Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence（艾伦人工智能研究所）；Toyota Research Institute（丰田研究院）
Large pre-trained models such as CLIP or ALIGN offer consistent accuracy across a range of data distributions when performing zero-shot inference (i.e., without fine-tuning on a specific dataset). Although existing fine-tuning methods substantially improve accuracy on a given target distribution, they often reduce robustness to distribution shifts. We address this tension by introducing a simple and effective method for improving robustness while fine-tuning: ensembling the weights of the zero-shot and fine-tuned models (WiSE-FT). Compared to standard fine-tuning, WiSE-FT provides large accura…
Existing semantic segmentation models heavily rely on dense pixel-wise annotations. To reduce the annotation pressure, we focus on a challenging task named zero-shot semantic segmentation, which aims to segment unseen objects with zero annotations. This task can be accomplished by transferring knowledge across categories via semantic word embeddings. In this paper, we propose a novel context-aware feature generation method for zero-shot segmentation named CaGNet. In particular, with the observation that a pixel-wise feature highly depends on its contextual information, we insert a contextual m…
Neural Block-wise Auto-exposure for Single-Shot High Dynamic Range Imaging
Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)（新加坡科技研究局高级智能与计算研究所）；school of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology（武汉科技大学信息科学与工程学院）；Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)（新加坡科技研究局先进再制造与技术中心）
Step-wise Distribution Alignment Guided Style Prompt Tuning for Source-free Cross-domain Few-shot Learning
College of Computer Science, Nankai University（南开大学计算机科学学院）；Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS), University of Oulu（奥卢大学机器视觉与信号分析中心）；College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学电子科学学院）
On the Element-Wise Representation and Reasoning in Zero-Shot Image Recognition: A Systematic Survey
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；The University of Queensland（昆士兰大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
Recognizing discriminative details such as eyes and beaks is important for distinguishing fine-grained classes since they have similar overall appearances. In this regard, we introduce Task Discrepancy Maximization (TDM), a simple module for fine-grained few-shot classification. Our objective is to localize the class-wise discriminative regions by highlighting channels encoding distinct information of the class. Specifically, TDM learns task-specific channel weights based on two novel components: Support Attention Module (SAM) and Query Attention Module (QAM). SAM produces a support weight to …
Layer-Wise Feature Metric of Semantic-Pixel Matching for Few-Shot Learning
School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology（广东工业大学计算机科学与技术学院）；Zhejiang Institute of Optoelectronics（浙江光电研究所）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, Huizhou University（惠州学院计算机科学与工程学院）；School of Information Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies（广东外语外贸大学信息科学与技术学院）；School of Physics, Maths and Computing, University of Western Australia（西澳大学物理、数学与计算学院）
PANDORA: Pixel-wise Attention Dissolution and Latent Guidance for Zero-Shot Object Removal
University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam（越南胡志明市理科大学）；Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam（越南胡志明市国家大学）；University of Dayton, Ohio, United States（美国俄亥俄州代顿大学）
We present a bottom-up approach for the task of object instance segmentation using a single-shot model. The proposed model employs a fully convolutional network which is trained to predict class-wise segmentation masks as well as the bounding boxes of the object instances to which each pixel belongs. This allows us to group object pixels into individual instances. Our network architecture is based on the DeepLabv3+ model, and requires only minimal extra computation to achieve pixel-wise instance assignments. We apply our method to the task of person instance segmentation, a common task relevan…
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)（浦项科技大学）
We introduce the integrative task of few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) that aims to both classify and segment target objects in a query image when the target classes are given with a few examples. This task combines two conventional few-shot learning problems, few-shot classification and segmentation. FS-CS generalizes them to more realistic episodes with arbitrary image pairs, where each target class may or may not be present in the query. To address the task, we propose the integrative few-shot learning (iFSL) framework for FS-CS, which trains a learner to construct class-wise…
Leverage Weakly Annotation to Pixel-wise Annotation via Zero-shot Segment Anything Model for Molecular-empowered Learning
Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University（范德堡大学数据科学研究所）；Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University（范德堡大学计算机科学系）；NVIDIA Corporation（英伟达公司）；Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center（范德堡大学医学中心电气与计算机工程系）；Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center（范德堡大学医学中心病理学、微生物学与免疫学系）
Baidu Research（百度研究院）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；University of Texas, Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）
Few-shot segmentation aims to train a segmentation model that can fast adapt to novel classes with few exemplars. The conventional training paradigm is to learn to make predictions on query images conditioned on the features from support images. Previous methods only utilized the semantic-level prototypes of support images as conditional information. These methods cannot utilize all pixel-wise support information for the query predictions, which is however critical for the segmentation task. In this paper, we focus on utilizing pixel-wise relationships between support and query images to facil…
