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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

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

Instance segmentation is a computer vision task where separate objects in an image are detected and segmented. State-of-the-art deep neural network models require large amounts of labeled data in order to perform well in this task. Making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Tuomas Sormunen , Arttu Lämsä , Miguel Bordallo Lopez

Annotated images and ground truth for the diagnosis of rare and novel diseases are scarce. This is expected to prevail, considering the small number of affected patient population and limited clinical expertise to annotate images. Further,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Karthik Desingu , Mirunalini P. , Aravindan Chandrabose

Contemporary deep learning based medical image segmentation algorithms require hours of annotation labor by domain experts. These data hungry deep models perform sub-optimally in the presence of limited amount of labeled data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Avisek Lahiri , Vineet Jain , Arnab Mondal , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) expects models trained on base classes to work on novel classes with the help of a few support images. However, when there exists a domain gap between the base and novel classes, the state-of-the-art FSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yuhang Lu , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Song Wang

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances from electron microscopy (EM) images plays an essential role in many neuroscience researches. However, practical scenarios usually suffer from high annotation costs, label scarcity, and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dafei Qiu , Shan Xiong , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng

Automated medical image segmentation using deep neural networks typically requires substantial supervised training. However, these models fail to generalize well across different imaging modalities. This shortcoming, amplified by the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Malo Alefsen de Boisredon d'Assier , Eugene Vorontsov , Samuel Kadoury

Nuclei instance segmentation in hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained images plays an important role in automated histological image analysis, with various applications in downstream tasks. While several machine learning and deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Nima Torbati , Anastasia Meshcheryakova , Ramona Woitek , Sepideh Hatamikia , Diana Mechtcheriakova , Amirreza Mahbod

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

In computational pathology, automatic nuclei instance segmentation plays an essential role in whole slide image analysis. While many computerized approaches have been proposed for this task, supervised deep learning (DL) methods have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Amirreza Mahbod , Christine Polak , Katharina Feldmann , Rumsha Khan , Katharina Gelles , Georg Dorffner , Ramona Woitek , Sepideh Hatamikia , Isabella Ellinger

Few-shot segmentation aims at assigning a category label to each image pixel with few annotated samples. It is a challenging task since the dense prediction can only be achieved under the guidance of latent features defined by sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kai Zhu , Wei Zhai , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yang Cao

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Image segmentation is one of the most essential biomedical image processing problems for different imaging modalities, including microscopy and X-ray in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) domain. However, annotating biomedical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Cen Chen , Cuntai Guan

Object segmentation is an important step in the workflow of computational pathology. Deep learning based models generally require large amount of labeled data for precise and reliable prediction. However, collecting labeled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajadin , Nasir Rajpoot

Generalized few-shot semantic segmentation (GFSS) aims to segment objects of both base and novel classes, using sufficient samples of base classes and few samples of novel classes. Representative GFSS approaches typically employ a two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xinyue Chen , Miaojing Shi , Zijian Zhou , Lianghua He , Sophia Tsoka

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to rapidly learn novel class concepts from limited examples to segment specific targets in unseen images, and has been widely applied in areas such as medical diagnosis and industrial inspection. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qianyu Guo , Jingrong Wu , Jieji Ren , Weifeng Ge , Wenqiang Zhang

In surgical procedures, correct instrument counting is essential. Instance segmentation is a location method that locates not only an object's bounding box but also each pixel's specific details. However, obtaining mask-level annotations is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zhen Sun , Huan Xu , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Chen , Zhen Lei , Hongbin Liu

Despite the success of deep learning based models in medical image segmentation, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods perform fully-supervised learning, which commonly rely on large scale annotated training datasets. However, medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhendi Gong , Xin Chen