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Prototype Learning-Based Few-Shot Segmentation for Low-Light Crack on Concrete Structures

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-01-21 v1

Abstract

Crack detection is critical for concrete infrastructure safety, but real-world cracks often appear in low-light environments like tunnels and bridge undersides, degrading computer vision segmentation accuracy. Pixel-level annotation of low-light crack images is extremely time-consuming, yet most deep learning methods require large, well-illuminated datasets. We propose a dual-branch prototype learning network integrating Retinex theory with few-shot learning for low-light crack segmentation. Retinex-based reflectance components guide illumination-invariant global representation learning, while metric learning reduces dependence on large annotated datasets. We introduce a cross-similarity prior mask generation module that computes high-dimensional similarities between query and support features to capture crack location and structure, and a multi-scale feature enhancement module that fuses multi-scale features with the prior mask to alleviate spatial inconsistency. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate consistent state-of-the-art performance under low-light conditions. Code: https://github.com/YulunGuo/CrackFSS.

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@article{arxiv.2601.13059,
  title  = {Prototype Learning-Based Few-Shot Segmentation for Low-Light Crack on Concrete Structures},
  author = {Yulun Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13059},
  year   = {2026}
}
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