Coarse-to-fine pseudo supervision guided meta-task optimization for few-shot object classification

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Highlights:

• A taxonomy and comprehensive survey of Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is illustrated.

• Unsupervised FSL eliminates the dependency on annotations of source dataset in vanilla FSL.

• Our unsupervised FSL method C2FPS-ML explores coarseto fine pseudo supervisions for optimizing meta-task sampling.

• A comprehensive experimental evaluation of C2FPS-ML is conducted.

• C2FPS-ML is competitive with other state-of-the-art Unsupervised FSL methods.

• C2FPS-ML achieves the higher training efficiency than that of the related methods.

摘要

•A taxonomy and comprehensive survey of Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is illustrated.•Unsupervised FSL eliminates the dependency on annotations of source dataset in vanilla FSL.•Our unsupervised FSL method C2FPS-ML explores coarseto fine pseudo supervisions for optimizing meta-task sampling.•A comprehensive experimental evaluation of C2FPS-ML is conducted.•C2FPS-ML is competitive with other state-of-the-art Unsupervised FSL methods.•C2FPS-ML achieves the higher training efficiency than that of the related methods.

论文关键词:Unsupervised few-shot learning,Meta-learning,Clustering,Object classification

论文评审过程:Received 1 April 2021, Revised 28 August 2021, Accepted 31 August 2021, Available online 2 September 2021, Version of Record 12 September 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108296