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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…

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Surface defect inspection is an important task in industrial inspection. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated promising performance in this domain. Nevertheless, these methods still suffer from misjudgment when encountering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoheng Jiang , Shilong Tian , Zhiwen Zhu , Yang Lu , Hao Liu , Li Chen , Shupan Li , Mingliang Xu

Industrial defect segmentation is critical for manufacturing quality control. Due to the scarcity of training defect samples, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) holds significant value in this field. However, existing studies mostly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tongkun Liu , Bing Li , Xiao Jin , Yupeng Shi , Qiuying Li , Xiang Wei

Existing semantic segmentation approaches either aim to improve the object's inner consistency by modeling the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Zhouchen Lin , Shaohua Tan , Yunhai Tong

Classical close-set semantic segmentation networks have limited ability to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, which is important for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Incrementally learning these OOD objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Jun Cen , Peng Yun , Junhao Cai , Michael Yu Wang , Ming Liu

Few-shot medical image segmentation has achieved great progress in improving accuracy and efficiency of medical analysis in the biomedical imaging field. However, most existing methods cannot explore inter-class relations among base and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yumin Zhang , Hongliu Li , Yajun Gao , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Yefeng Zheng

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Few-shot learning is a fundamental and challenging problem since it requires recognizing novel categories from only a few examples. The objects for recognition have multiple variants and can locate anywhere in images. Directly comparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

Widely used traditional supervised deep learning methods require a large number of training samples but often fail to generalize on unseen datasets. Therefore, a more general application of any trained model is quite limited for medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rabindra Khadga , Debesh Jha , Steven Hicks , Vajira Thambawita , Michael A. Riegler , Sharib Ali , Pål Halvorsen

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Infrared small target detection is crucial for remote sensing applications like disaster warning and maritime surveillance. However, due to the lack of distinctive texture and morphological features, infrared small targets are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Zuo , Songwei Pei , Qian Li

Corrosion detection on metal constructions is a major challenge in civil engineering for quick, safe and effective inspection. Existing image analysis approaches tend to place bounding boxes around the defected region which is not adequate…

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Recent progress in semantic segmentation is driven by deep Convolutional Neural Networks and large-scale labeled image datasets. However, data labeling for pixel-wise segmentation is tedious and costly. Moreover, a trained model can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu , Rui Yao , Chunhua Shen

Few-shot aerial image segmentation is a challenging task that involves precisely parsing objects in query aerial images with limited annotated support. Conventional matching methods without consideration of varying object orientations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Few-shot segmentation targets to segment new classes with few annotated images provided. It is more challenging than traditional semantic segmentation tasks that segment known classes with abundant annotated images. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jinlu Liu , Yongqiang Qin

Few-shot deep learning is a topical challenge area for scaling visual recognition to open ended growth of unseen new classes with limited labeled examples. A promising approach is based on metric learning, which trains a deep embedding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xueting Zhang , Yuting Qiang , Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims at recognizing the object regions of unseen categories with only a few annotated examples as supervision. The key to few-shot segmentation is to establish a robust semantic relationship between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xiangwen Shi , Zhe Cui , Shaobing Zhang , Miao Cheng , Lian He , Xianghong Tang

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

Few-shot semantic segmentation is vital for deep learning-based infrastructure inspection applications, where labeled training examples are scarce and expensive. Although existing deep learning frameworks perform well, the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Christina Thrainer , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Mahdi Abdelguerfi , Christian Guetl , Steven Sloan , Kendall N. Niles , Ken Pathak

Over the past few years, state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are based on deep convolutional neural networks. To render a deep network with the ability to understand a concept, humans need to collect a large amount of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu