Few-shot learning with unsupervised part discovery and part-aligned similarity

作者:

Highlights:

• We propose a novel unsupervised Part Discovery Network, which can learn discriminative and transferable part representations from unlabeled images for few-shot learning.

• We propose Part-Aligned Similarity, which measures image similarities based on discriminative and aligned parts via partweighting and part-alignment mechanisms.

• We conduct extensive experiments on five few-shot learning benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms previous unsupervised methods by a large margin and achieves comparable performance with supervised methods.

摘要

•We propose a novel unsupervised Part Discovery Network, which can learn discriminative and transferable part representations from unlabeled images for few-shot learning.•We propose Part-Aligned Similarity, which measures image similarities based on discriminative and aligned parts via partweighting and part-alignment mechanisms.•We conduct extensive experiments on five few-shot learning benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms previous unsupervised methods by a large margin and achieves comparable performance with supervised methods.

论文关键词:Few-shot learning,Self-supervised learning,Part discovery network,Part-aligned similarity

论文评审过程:Received 31 March 2022, Revised 5 August 2022, Accepted 16 August 2022, Available online 20 August 2022, Version of Record 24 August 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108986