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One of the major novelties of the proposed method is the concept of template reconstruction enabling improved performance with limited training data. The technique is compared with similar algorithms and evaluated using both the image and time-series modalities to demonstrate its effectiveness and versatility. Two public image databases, FASHION-MNIST and CIFAR-10, were used to test its effectiveness for the classification of images using small amounts of training samples. An average classification improvement of 2~3% was observed while using a small subset of the training database, compared to the performances achieved by state-of-the-art techniques using the full datasets. To further explore its capability in solving more challenging classification problems such as non-stationary time-series electroencephalography (EEG) signals, a clinical grade 64-electrode EEG database, as well as a low-quality (high-noise level) EEG database, obtained using a low-cost system equipped with a single dry sensor, have also been used to test the algorithm. Adaptive reconstruction of the feature instances has been seen to have substantially improved class separation and matching performance for both still images and time-series signals. 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