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Multi-level Metric Learning for Few-shot Image Recognition

21 Mar 2021arXiv:2103.11383archive 2025-07-28

Haoxing Chen, Huaxiong Li, Yaohui Li, Chunlin Chen

Few-shot learning is devoted to training a model on few samples. Most of these approaches learn a model based on a pixel-level or global-level feature representation. However, using global features may lose local information, and using pixel-level features may lose the contextual semantics of the image. Moreover, such works can only measure the relations between them on a single level, which is not comprehensive and effective. And if query images can simultaneously be well classified via three distinct level similarity metrics, the query images within a class can be more tightly distributed in a smaller feature space, generating more discriminative feature maps. Motivated by this, we propose a novel Part-level Embedding Adaptation with Graph (PEAG) method to generate task-specific features. Moreover, a Multi-level Metric Learning (MML) method is proposed, which not only calculates the pixel-level similarity but also considers the similarity of part-level features and global-level features. Extensive experiments on popular few-shot image recognition datasets prove the effectiveness of our method compared with the state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/chenhaoxing/M2L}.

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Few-Shot Image ClassificationFew-Shot LearningMetric Learning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Image Classification Stanford Cars 5-way (1-shot) MML(KL) Accuracy 72.43 #2 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Stanford Cars 5-way (5-shot) MML(KL) Accuracy 91.05 #2 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Stanford Dogs 5-way (1-shot) MML(KL) Accuracy 59.05 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Image Classification Stanford Dogs 5-way (5-shot) MML(KL) Accuracy 75.59 #1 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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