Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning: a Generative Transfer Learning Framework

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Main Authors: Yang, Zhengwei, Li, Yuke, Sun, Qiang, Fernando, Basura, Huang, Heng, Wang, Zheng
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author Yang, Zhengwei
Li, Yuke
Sun, Qiang
Fernando, Basura
Huang, Heng
Wang, Zheng
author_facet Yang, Zhengwei
Li, Yuke
Sun, Qiang
Fernando, Basura
Huang, Heng
Wang, Zheng
contents Most existing studies on few-shot learning focus on unimodal settings, where models are trained to generalize to unseen data using a limited amount of labeled examples from a single modality. However, real-world data are inherently multi-modal, and such unimodal approaches limit the practical applications of few-shot learning. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces the Cross-modal Few-Shot Learning (CFSL) task, which aims to recognize instances across multiple modalities while relying on scarce labeled data. This task presents unique challenges compared to classical few-shot learning arising from the distinct visual attributes and structural disparities inherent to each modality. To tackle these challenges, we propose a Generative Transfer Learning (GTL) framework by simulating how humans abstract and generalize concepts. Specifically, the GTL jointly estimates the latent shared concept across modalities and the in-modality disturbance through a generative structure. Establishing the relationship between latent concepts and visual content among abundant unimodal data enables GTL to effectively transfer knowledge from unimodal to novel multimodal data, as humans did. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the GTL achieves state-of-the-art performance across seven multi-modal datasets across RGB-Sketch, RGB-Infrared, and RGB-Depth.
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spellingShingle Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning: a Generative Transfer Learning Framework
Yang, Zhengwei
Li, Yuke
Sun, Qiang
Fernando, Basura
Huang, Heng
Wang, Zheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Most existing studies on few-shot learning focus on unimodal settings, where models are trained to generalize to unseen data using a limited amount of labeled examples from a single modality. However, real-world data are inherently multi-modal, and such unimodal approaches limit the practical applications of few-shot learning. To bridge this gap, this paper introduces the Cross-modal Few-Shot Learning (CFSL) task, which aims to recognize instances across multiple modalities while relying on scarce labeled data. This task presents unique challenges compared to classical few-shot learning arising from the distinct visual attributes and structural disparities inherent to each modality. To tackle these challenges, we propose a Generative Transfer Learning (GTL) framework by simulating how humans abstract and generalize concepts. Specifically, the GTL jointly estimates the latent shared concept across modalities and the in-modality disturbance through a generative structure. Establishing the relationship between latent concepts and visual content among abundant unimodal data enables GTL to effectively transfer knowledge from unimodal to novel multimodal data, as humans did. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the GTL achieves state-of-the-art performance across seven multi-modal datasets across RGB-Sketch, RGB-Infrared, and RGB-Depth.
title Cross-Modal Few-Shot Learning: a Generative Transfer Learning Framework
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10663