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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

Instance perception tasks (object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, counting) play a key role in industrial applications of visual models. As supervised learning methods suffer from high labeling cost, few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sheng Jin , Ruijie Yao , Lumin Xu , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Ji Wu , Ping Luo

We propose Sym-Net, a novel framework for Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) that addresses the critical issue of intra-class variation by jointly learning both query and support prototypes in a symmetrical manner. Unlike previous methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Qun Li , Baoquan Sun , Fu Xiao , Yonggang Qi , Bir Bhanu

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

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques to simple transfer learning baselines. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reda Bensaid , Vincent Gripon , François Leduc-Primeau , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux

Despite the recent advances in unified image segmentation (IS), developing a unified video segmentation (VS) model remains a challenge. This is mainly because generic category-specified VS tasks need to detect all objects and track them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Minghan Li , Shuai Li , Xindong Zhang , Lei Zhang

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment the novel classes with a few annotated images. Due to CLIP's advantages of aligning visual and textual information, the integration of CLIP can enhance the generalization ability of FSS model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Chen Shuai , Meng Fanman , Zhang Runtong , Qiu Heqian , Li Hongliang , Wu Qingbo , Xu Linfeng

We study multi-modal few-shot object detection (FSOD) in this paper, using both few-shot visual examples and class semantic information for detection, which are complementary to each other by definition. Most of the previous works on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Guangxing Han , Long Chen , Jiawei Ma , Shiyuan Huang , Rama Chellappa , Shih-Fu Chang

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

One-shot semantic image segmentation aims to segment the object regions for the novel class with only one annotated image. Recent works adopt the episodic training strategy to mimic the expected situation at testing time. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Qiong Wang , Fumin Shen , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Haohan Wang , Liang Liu , Wuhao Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Haoqian Wang

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

In recent years, few-shot segmentation (FSS) models have emerged as a promising approach in medical imaging analysis, offering remarkable adaptability to segment novel classes with limited annotated data. Existing approaches to few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mohammad Mozafari , Hosein Hasani , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohamadreza Fereydooni , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

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

Existing few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods mainly focus on designing novel support-query matching and self-matching mechanisms to exploit implicit knowledge in pre-trained backbones. However, the performance of these methods is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shijie Chang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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 learning (FSL) is the task of learning to recognize previously unseen categories of images from a small number of training examples. This is a challenging task, as the available examples may not be enough to unambiguously determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Kun Yan , Zied Bouraoui , Ping Wang , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (CD-FSS) seeks to segment unknown classes in unseen domains using only a few annotated examples. This setting is inherently challenging: source and target domains exhibit substantial distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pasquale De Marinis , Pieter M. Blok , Uzay Kaymak , Rogier Brussee , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has great potential for medical imaging applications. Most of the existing FSS techniques require abundant annotated semantic classes for training. However, these methods may not be applicable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cheng Ouyang , Carlo Biffi , Chen Chen , Turkay Kart , Huaqi Qiu , Daniel Rueckert

Learning with little data is challenging but often inevitable in various application scenarios where the labeled data is limited and costly. Recently, few-shot learning (FSL) gained increasing attention because of its generalizability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Yuzhong Chen , Zhenxiang Xiao , Lin Zhao , Lu Zhang , Haixing Dai , David Weizhong Liu , Zihao Wu , Changhe Li , Tuo Zhang , Changying Li , Dajiang Zhu , Tianming Liu , Xi Jiang