ML: Few shot

Machine-learning ideas tagged Few shot in the ML taxonomy of the Math2NN corpus.

Unverified 2026

Contour Levy-Area Feature Branch

Add a geometric branch that converts ordered image contours into truncated signatures and feeds first-order displacement and second-order antisymmetric area features into the detector backbone. The area channel captures orientation and enclosed-region structure that ordinary edge magnitude or convolutional filters may miss, making the module suitable for thin cracks, scratches, bent boundaries, and small industrial defects.

Useful6/10
Difficulty4/10
Novelty6/10
Paper: Rough Path Signature-Guided Geometry Augmentation for Few-Shot Industrial Surface Defect Detection arXiv:2607.12245