Multimodal Collaboration via Multi-stage Augmentation for Few-Shot Foodborne Pathogens Classification.

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Title: Multimodal Collaboration via Multi-stage Augmentation for Few-Shot Foodborne Pathogens Classification.
Authors: Zhang, Yixiang1 1545032733@qq.com, Hang, Yuting1 2763626778@qq.com, Fang, Jie2 fangjie@xupt.edu.cn
Source: IAENG International Journal of Computer Science. Jul2026, Vol. 53 Issue 7, p2825-2833. 9p.
Subjects: Food pathogens, Data augmentation, Public health, Feature extraction, Machine learning
Abstract: Rapid detection of foodborne pathogens is critical for public health. While machine learning enables efficient pathogen detection, data scarcity and annotation challenges degrade few-shot classification performance. Traditional few-shot methods (e.g., meta-learning) struggle due to insufficient prior knowledge. To address this, we propose a multimodal collaboration framework with three components: (1) Multimodal Data Augmentation (MDA) using scale variation, noise, and image mixing to alleviate sample scarcity. (2) Multimodal Feature Representation (MFR) fusing shallow contour and deep semantic features via multi-scale concatenation and channel attention. (3) Multimodal Collaborative Decision (MCD) employing majority voting to integrate predictions and reduce interferences. Experiments show our method achieves 74.46% and 80.77% accuracy in 3-shot and 5-shot tasks, respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches. This work provides an effective solution for few-shot pathogen detection, enhancing food safety supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: Rapid detection of foodborne pathogens is critical for public health. While machine learning enables efficient pathogen detection, data scarcity and annotation challenges degrade few-shot classification performance. Traditional few-shot methods (e.g., meta-learning) struggle due to insufficient prior knowledge. To address this, we propose a multimodal collaboration framework with three components: (1) Multimodal Data Augmentation (MDA) using scale variation, noise, and image mixing to alleviate sample scarcity. (2) Multimodal Feature Representation (MFR) fusing shallow contour and deep semantic features via multi-scale concatenation and channel attention. (3) Multimodal Collaborative Decision (MCD) employing majority voting to integrate predictions and reduce interferences. Experiments show our method achieves 74.46% and 80.77% accuracy in 3-shot and 5-shot tasks, respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches. This work provides an effective solution for few-shot pathogen detection, enhancing food safety supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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