Enhancing Few-Shot Image Classification through Learnable Multi-Scale Embedding and Attention Mechanisms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07989v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:34:29 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Few-Shot Image Classification through Learnable Multi-Scale Embedding and Attention Mechanisms
• Authors: Fatemeh Askari, Amirreza Fateh, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi,
• Abstract summary: In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples. Traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving this objective. Our approach involves utilizing multi-output embedding network that maps samples into distinct feature spaces.
• Score: 1.1557852082644071
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving this objective. These methods typically rely on a single distance value between the query feature and support feature, thereby overlooking the contribution of shallow features. To overcome this challenge, we propose a novel approach in this paper. Our approach involves utilizing multi-output embedding network that maps samples into distinct feature spaces. The proposed method extract feature vectors at different stages, enabling the model to capture both global and abstract features. By utilizing these diverse feature spaces, our model enhances its performance. Moreover, employing a self-attention mechanism improves the refinement of features at each stage, leading to even more robust representations and improved overall performance. Furthermore, assigning learnable weights to each stage significantly improved performance and results. We conducted comprehensive evaluations on the MiniImageNet and FC100 datasets, specifically in the 5-way 1-shot and 5-way 5-shot scenarios. Additionally, we performed a cross-domain task from MiniImageNet to the CUB dataset, achieving high accuracy in the testing domain. These evaluations demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed method in comparison to state-of-the-art approaches. https://github.com/FatemehAskari/MSENet

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