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Poster

Frozen Feature Augmentation for Few-Shot Image Classification

Andreas Bär · Neil Houlsby · Mostafa Dehghani · Manoj Kumar

Arch 4A-E Poster #138
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Thu 20 Jun 5 p.m. PDT — 6:30 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

Training a linear classifier or lightweight model on top of pretrained vision model outputs, so-called 'frozen features', leads to impressive performance on a number of downstream few-shot tasks. Currently, frozen features are not modified during training. On the other hand, when networks are trained directly on images, data augmentation is a standard recipe that improves performance with no substantial overhead. In this paper, we conduct an extensive pilot study on few-shot image classification that explores applying data augmentations in the frozen feature space, dubbed 'frozen feature augmentation (FroFA)', covering twenty augmentations in total. Our study demonstrates that adopting a deceptively simple pointwise FroFA, such as brightness, can improve few-shot performance consistently across three network architectures, three large pretraining datasets, and eight transfer datasets.

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