Multi-level Attention Feature Network for Few-shot Learning

Existing few-shot methods have problems that feature extraction scale is single, the learned class representations are inaccurate, the similarity calculation still relies on standard metrics. In order to solve the above problems, multi-level attention feature network is proposed. Firstly, the multiple scale images are obtained by scale processing, the features of multiple scale images are extracted and the image-level attention features are obtained by the image-level attention mechanism to fusion them. Then, class-level attention features are learned by using the class- level attention mechanism. Finally, the classification is performed by using the network to compute the similarity scores between features. The proposed method is evaluated on the Omniglot dataset and the MiniImagenet dataset. The experimental results show that multi-level attention feature network can further improve the classification accuracy under small sample conditions compared to the single-scale image features and average prototypes.