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New Hierarchical Metric Learning Method Enhances Few-Shot Video Recognition

Researchers have introduced Hierarchical Metric Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition (HML-FSAR), a novel method designed to improve the recognition of unseen action categories with limited annotated video samples. The approach incorporates a spatial-enhanced module to capture cross-frame global spatial information and employs a hierarchical metric learning strategy with multiple complementary constraints. This strategy progressively optimizes feature compactness, alignment, discriminability, and robustness across the entire feature pipeline, from frame-level representations to final class prototypes. Experiments on five datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of HML-FSAR. AI

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New Hierarchical Metric Learning Method Enhances Few-Shot Video Recognition

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiaxin Zhang, Haoran Gao, Xizhan Gao, Zihao Dong, Tingwei Wang, Sijie Niu ·

    Few-Shot Video Recognition via Hierarchical Metric Learning

    arXiv:2609.05242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) aims to recognize unseen action categories with only a small number of annotated video samples. Recent works typically apply single-prototype supervision at the network output and fail to sufficien…