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This paper studies the few-shot segmentation (FSS) task, which aims to segment objects belonging to unseen categories in a query image by learning a model on a small number of well-annotated support samples. Our analysis of two mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Tianyu Zou , Shengwu Xiong , Ruilin Yao , Yi Rong

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods perform image segmentation for a particular object class in a target (query) image, using a small set of (support) image-mask pairs. Recent deep neural network based FSS methods leverage high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siddhartha Gairola , Mayur Hemani , Ayush Chopra , Balaji Krishnamurthy

In visual recognition tasks, few-shot learning requires the ability to learn object categories with few support examples. Its re-popularity in light of the deep learning development is mainly in image classification. This work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Miao Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Li Li

Existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods assume that there exist sufficient training samples from source classes for knowledge transfer to target classes with few training samples. However, this assumption is often invalid, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Jianhong Zhang , Manli Zhang , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Jirong Wen

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is a dense prediction task that aims to infer the pixel-wise labels of unseen classes using only a limited number of annotated images. The key challenge in FSS is to classify the labels of query pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wenbo Xu , Huaxi Huang , Ming Cheng , Litao Yu , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (GFSS) extends Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) to simultaneously segment unseen classes and seen classes during evaluation. Previous works leverage additional branch or prototypical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kai Huang , Feigege Wang , Ye Xi , Yutao Gao

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS), which focuses on segmenting new classes in images using only a limited number of annotated examples, has recently progressed in data-scarce domains. However, in this work, we show that the existing FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhuohao Li , Zhicheng Huang , Wenchao Liu , Zhuxin Zhang , Jianming Miao

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to design machine learning algorithms that can continually learn new concepts from a few data points, without forgetting knowledge of old classes. The difficulty lies in that limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hao Chen , Linyan Li , Fan Lyu , Fuyuan Hu , Zhenping Xia , Fenglei Xu

This work examines the use of a fully convolutional net (FCN) to find an image segment, given a pixel within this segment region. The net receives an image, a point in the image and a region of interest (RoI ) mask. The net output is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sagi Eppel

We propose to study the problem of few-shot learning with the prism of inference on a partially observed graphical model, constructed from a collection of input images whose label can be either observed or not. By assimilating generic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Victor Garcia , Joan Bruna

Learning-based methods for visual segmentation have made progress on particular types of segmentation tasks, but are limited by the necessary supervision, the narrow definitions of fixed tasks, and the lack of control during inference for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Kate Rakelly , Evan Shelhamer , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Sergey Levine

Cell instance segmentation is a new and challenging task aiming at joint detection and segmentation of every cell in an image. Recently, many instance segmentation methods have applied in this task. Despite their great success, there still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Menghao Li , Wenquan Feng , Shuchang Lyu , Lijiang Chen , Qi Zhao

Few-shot segmentation~(FSS) performance has been extensively promoted by introducing episodic training and class-wise prototypes. However, the FSS problem remains challenging due to three limitations: (1) Models are distracted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jian-Wei Zhang , Lei Lv , Yawei Luo , Hao-Zhe Feng , Yi Yang , Wei Chen

Few-shot learning is proposed to tackle the problem of scarce training data in novel classes. However, prior works in instance-level few-shot learning have paid less attention to effectively utilizing the relationship between categories. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Anh-Khoa Nguyen Vu , Thanh-Toan Do , Nhat-Duy Nguyen , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Thanh Duc Ngo , Tam V. Nguyen

Fine-grained image recognition is a challenging computer vision problem, due to the small inter-class variations caused by highly similar subordinate categories, and the large intra-class variations in poses, scales and rotations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Xiu-Shen Wei , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu

The Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to accomplish the novel class segmentation task with a few annotated images. Current FSS research based on meta-learning focus on designing a complex interaction mechanism between the query and support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jing Wang , Jinagyun Li , Chen Chen , Yisi Zhang , Haoran Shen , Tianxiang Zhang

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Encouraging progress has been made for FSS by leveraging semantic features learned from base classes with sufficient training samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zewen Zheng , Guoheng Huang , Xiaochen Yuan , Chi-Man Pun , Hongrui Liu , Wing-Kuen Ling

We tackle the Few-Shot Open-Set Recognition (FSOSR) problem, i.e. classifying instances among a set of classes for which we only have few labeled samples, while simultaneously detecting instances that do not belong to any known class.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Malik Boudiaf , Etienne Bennequin , Myriam Tami , Celine Hudelot , Antoine Toubhans , Pablo Piantanida , Ismail Ben Ayed

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) focuses on segmenting novel object categories from only a handful of annotated examples. Most existing approaches rely on extensive episodic training to learn transferable representations, which is both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yi-Jen Tsai , Yen-Yu Lin , Chien-Yao Wang

Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to learn class-agnostic segmentation on few classes to segment arbitrary classes, but at the risk of overfitting. To address this, some methods use the well-learned knowledge of foundation models (e.g., SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Qianxiong Xu , Lanyun Zhu , Xuanyi Liu , Guosheng Lin , Cheng Long , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao