The invention discloses a
small sample image classification method based on a memory mechanism and a graph neural network, which is characterized in that a
small sample model is helped to perform reasoning prediction by means of learned conceptual knowledge, and specifically comprises three stages of pre-training, meta-training and meta-testing, wherein the pre-training takes the trained feature extractor and classifier as initialization weights of an
encoder and a
memory bank; the meta-training is characterized in that features of samples of a support set and a query set are extracted through an
encoder, related information of each class is mined from a
memory bank to serve as meta-knowledge, and similarity between task related nodes and the meta-knowledge is propagated through a graph neural network; and the meta-test obtains a
classification result through task related nodes and meta-knowledge nodes. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that a human recognition process is used for reference, a memory graph augmentation network based on information
bottleneck is used, well-learned conceptual knowledge is used, the model is helped to conduct reasoning prediction, the method is simple and convenient, practicability is high, and certain application and popularization prospects are achieved.