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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) was proposed to segment unseen classes in a query image, referring to only a few annotated examples named support images. One of the characteristics of FSS is spatial inconsistency between query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Leilei Cao , Yibo Guo , Ye Yuan , Qiangguo Jin

This work focuses on tackling the challenging but realistic visual task of Incremental Few-Shot Learning (IFSL), which requires a model to continually learn novel classes from only a few examples while not forgetting the base classes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Xijia Feng , Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

In this paper, we explore incremental few-shot object detection (iFSD), which incrementally learns novel classes using only a few examples without revisiting base classes. Previous iFSD works achieved the desired results by applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Tae-Min Choi , Jong-Hwan Kim

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment new object classes with only a few annotated examples, which has a wide range of real-world applications. Most existing methods either focus on the restrictive setting of one-way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yongfei Liu , Xiangyi Zhang , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Among the neural network compression techniques, knowledge distillation is an effective one which forces a simpler student network to mimic the output of a larger teacher network. However, most of such model distillation methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yuhu Shan

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem since only a few examples are provided to recognize a new class. Several recent studies exploit additional semantic information, e.g. text embeddings of class names, to address the issue of rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wentao Chen , Chenyang Si , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Zilei Wang , Tieniu Tan

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) models achieve strong performance in segmenting novel classes with minimal labeled examples, yet their decision-making processes remain largely opaque. While explainable AI has advanced significantly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pasquale De Marinis , Uzay Kaymak , Rogier Brussee , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Few-shot instance segmentation methods are promising when labeled training data for novel classes is scarce. However, current approaches do not facilitate flexible addition of novel classes. They also require that examples of each class are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Dan Andrei Ganea , Bas Boom , Ronald Poppe

Deep neural networks for semantic segmentation rely on large-scale annotated datasets, leading to an annotation bottleneck that motivates few shot semantic segmentation (FSS) which aims to generalize to novel classes with minimal labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ourui Fu , Hangzhou He , Kaiwen Li , Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang

In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

An old-school recipe for training a classifier is to (i) learn a good feature extractor and (ii) optimize a linear layer atop. When only a handful of samples are available per category, as in Few-Shot Adaptation (FSA), data are insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Matteo Farina , Massimiliano Mancini , Giovanni Iacca , Elisa Ricci

Real-world object detection is highly desired to be equipped with the learning expandability that can enlarge its detection classes incrementally. Moreover, such learning from only few annotated training samples further adds the flexibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

The performance of supervised semantic segmentation methods highly relies on the availability of large-scale training data. To alleviate this dependence, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is introduced to leverage the model trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xinyue Chen , Miaojing Shi

Segmentation refinement aims to enhance the initial coarse masks generated by segmentation algorithms. The refined masks are expected to capture more details and better contours of the target objects. Research on segmentation refinement has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Seonghyeon Moon , Qingze , Liu , Haein Kong , Muhammad Haris Khan

Vision-based industrial inspection (VII) aims to locate defects quickly and accurately. Supervised learning under a close-set setting and industrial anomaly detection, as two common paradigms in VII, face different problems in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Zilong Zhang , Chang Niu , Zhibin Zhao , Xingwu Zhang , Xuefeng Chen

To reduce the reliance on large-scale datasets, recent works in 3D segmentation resort to few-shot learning. Current 3D few-shot semantic segmentation methods first pre-train the models on `seen' classes, and then evaluate their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiangyang Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Bowei He , Ziyu Guo , Jiaming Liu , Hao Dong , Peng Gao

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) endeavors to segment unseen classes with only a few labeled samples. Current FSS methods are commonly built on the assumption that their training and application scenarios share similar domains, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weizhao He , Yang Zhang , Wei Zhuo , Linlin Shen , Jiaqi Yang , Songhe Deng , Liang Sun