English
Related papers

Related papers: Prototype as Query for Few Shot Semantic Segmentat…

200 papers

Despite the great progress made by deep neural networks in the semantic segmentation task, traditional neural-networkbased methods typically suffer from a shortage of large amounts of pixel-level annotations. Recent progress in fewshot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Shuo Lei , Xuchao Zhang , Jianfeng He , Fanglan Chen , Chang-Tien Lu

The task of few-shot image classification and segmentation (FS-CS) involves classifying and segmenting target objects in a query image, given only a few examples of the target classes. We introduce the Vision-Instructed Segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Tian Meng , Yang Tao , Ruilin Lyu , Wuliang Yin

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

Cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to segment unseen categories with very limited samples while alleviating the negative effects of domain shift between the source and target domains. At present, existing CD-FSS studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Huan Ni , Qingshan Liu , Xiaonan Niu , Danfeng Hong , Lingli Zhao , Haiyan Guan

Open-set few-shot image classification aims to train models using a small amount of labeled data, enabling them to achieve good generalization when confronted with unknown environments. Existing methods mainly use visual information from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Kexuan Shi , Zhuang Qi , Jingjing Zhu , Lei Meng , Yaochen Zhang , Haibei Huang , Xiangxu Meng

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims at learning to segment a target object from a query image using only a few annotated support images of the target class. This challenging task requires to understand diverse levels of visual cues and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Juhong Min , Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

This paper studies few-shot segmentation, which is a task of predicting foreground mask of unseen classes by a few of annotations only, aided by a set of rich annotations already existed. The existing methods mainly focus the task on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Yuwei Yang , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li , King N. Ngan , Qingbo Wu

Incremental Few-Shot (IFS) segmentation aims to learn new categories over time from only a few annotations. Although widely studied in 2D, it remains underexplored for 3D point clouds. Existing methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vishal Thengane , Zhaochong An , Tianjin Huang , Son Lam Phung , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Lu Yin , Na Zhao , Xiatian Zhu

Research into Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) has attracted great attention, with the goal to segment target objects in a query image given only a few annotated support images of the target class. A key to this challenging task is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xinyu Shi , Dong Wei , Yu Zhang , Donghuan Lu , Munan Ning , Jiashun Chen , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Few-shot semantic segmentation task aims at performing segmentation in query images with a few annotated support samples. Currently, few-shot segmentation methods mainly focus on leveraging foreground information without fully utilizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Xiwen Yao , Junwei Han

Recently, Space-Time Memory Network (STM) based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). A crucial problem in this task is how to model the dependency both among different frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jianbiao Mei , Mengmeng Wang , Yeneng Lin , Yi Yuan , Yong Liu

Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation (FSMIS) aims to segment novel classes of medical objects using only a few labeled images. Prototype-based methods have made significant progress in addressing FSMIS. However, they typically generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chao Fan , Xibin Jia , Anqi Xiao , Hongyuan Yu , Zhenghan Yang , Dawei Yang , Hui Xu , Yan Huang , Liang Wang

We introduce ProtoSeg, a novel model for interpretable semantic image segmentation, which constructs its predictions using similar patches from the training set. To achieve accuracy comparable to baseline methods, we adapt the mechanism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Mikołaj Sacha , Dawid Rymarczyk , Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

We introduce VistaFormer, a lightweight Transformer-based model architecture for the semantic segmentation of remote-sensing images. This model uses a multi-scale Transformer-based encoder with a lightweight decoder that aggregates global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Ezra MacDonald , Derek Jacoby , Yvonne Coady

Recently proposed few-shot image classification methods have generally focused on use cases where the objects to be classified are the central subject of images. Despite success on benchmark vision datasets aligned with this use case, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Elliott Skomski , Aaron Tuor , Andrew Avila , Lauren Phillips , Zachary New , Henry Kvinge , Courtney D. Corley , Nathan Hodas

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) has gained significant attention for its ability to generalize to novel classes with limited supervision, yet remains challenged by structural misalignment and cross-view inconsistency under large appearance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hongli Liu , Yu Wang , Shengjie Zhao

This paper is on Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD), where given a few templates (examples) depicting a novel class (not seen during training), the goal is to detect all of its occurrences within a set of images. From a practical perspective,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Adrian Bulat , Ricardo Guerrero , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Real world images often have highly imbalanced content density. Some areas are very uniform, e.g., large patches of blue sky, while other areas are scattered with many small objects. Yet, the commonly used successive grid downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chen Ziwen , Kaushik Patnaik , Shuangfei Zhai , Alvin Wan , Zhile Ren , Alex Schwing , Alex Colburn , Li Fuxin

Semantic segmentation of microscopy cell images by deep learning is a significant technique. We considered that the Transformers, which have recently outperformed CNNs in image recognition, could also be improved and developed for cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

This work explores the application of Federated Learning (FL) to Unsupervised Semantic image Segmentation (USS). Recent USS methods extract pixel-level features using frozen visual foundation models and refine them through self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Evangelos Charalampakis , Vasileios Mygdalis , Ioannis Pitas