Object-Centric Cropping for Visual Few-Shot Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00218v1
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:44:06 GMT
• Title: Object-Centric Cropping for Visual Few-Shot Classification
• Authors: Aymane Abdali, Bartosz Boguslawski, Lucas Drumetz, Vincent Gripon,
• Abstract summary: In the domain of Few-Shot Image Classification, operating with as little as one example per class, the presence of image ambiguities stemming from multiple objects or complex backgrounds can significantly deteriorate performance.<n>Our research demonstrates that incorporating additional information about the local positioning of an object within its image markedly enhances classification across established benchmarks.
• Score: 5.199807441687141
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the domain of Few-Shot Image Classification, operating with as little as one example per class, the presence of image ambiguities stemming from multiple objects or complex backgrounds can significantly deteriorate performance. Our research demonstrates that incorporating additional information about the local positioning of an object within its image markedly enhances classification across established benchmarks. More importantly, we show that a significant fraction of the improvement can be achieved through the use of the Segment Anything Model, requiring only a pixel of the object of interest to be pointed out, or by employing fully unsupervised foreground object extraction methods.

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