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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

Current semantic segmentation models typically require a substantial amount of manually annotated data, a process that is both time-consuming and resource-intensive. Alternatively, leveraging advanced text-to-image models such as Midjourney…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bo Gao , Jianhui Wang , Xinyuan Song , Yangfan He , Fangxu Xing , Tianyu Shi

Nuclei segmentation is a fundamental but challenging task in the quantitative analysis of histopathology images. Although fully-supervised deep learning-based methods have made significant progress, a large number of labeled images are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Xinyi Yu , Guanbin Li , Wei Lou , Siqi Liu , Xiang Wan , Yan Chen , Haofeng Li

This paper addresses the few-shot image classification problem, where the classification task is performed on unlabeled query samples given a small amount of labeled support samples only. One major challenge of the few-shot learning problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Cuong Q. Nguyen , Dung D. Le , Hieu H. Pham

Most of the recent few-shot learning (FSL) algorithms are based on transfer learning, where a model is pre-trained using a large amount of source data, and the pre-trained model is fine-tuned using a small amount of target data. In transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Yujin Kim , Jaehoon Oh , Sungnyun Kim , Se-Young Yun

In computer-assisted surgery, automatically recognizing anatomical organs is crucial for understanding the surgical scene and providing intraoperative assistance. While machine learning models can identify such structures, their deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Danush Kumar Venkatesh , Dominik Rivoir , Micha Pfeiffer , Fiona Kolbinger , Stefanie Speidel

Training semantic segmentation models requires a large amount of finely annotated data, making it hard to quickly adapt to novel classes not satisfying this condition. Few-Shot Segmentation (FS-Seg) tackles this problem with many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Li Jiang , Shu Liu , Michelle Shu , Hengshuang Zhao , Jiaya Jia

Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhuchen Shao , Sourya Sengupta , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

Conditional diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in image manipulation tasks. The general pipeline involves adding noise to the image and then denoising it. However, this method faces a trade-off problem: adding too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Luozhou Wang , Shuai Yang , Shu Liu , Ying-cong Chen

Integrating information from multiple modalities enhances the robustness of scene perception systems in autonomous vehicles, providing a more comprehensive and reliable sensory framework. However, the modality incompleteness in multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Ruiping Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Yufan Chen , Ke Cao , Junwei Zheng , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Kailun Yang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Automatic cell segmentation in microscopy images works well with the support of deep neural networks trained with full supervision. Collecting and annotating images, though, is not a sustainable solution for every new microscopy database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Youssef Dawoud , Julia Hornauer , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

State-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods require sufficient labeled data to achieve good results and hardly work on unseen classes without fine-tuning. Few-shot segmentation is thus proposed to tackle this problem by learning a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zhuotao Tian , Hengshuang Zhao , Michelle Shu , Zhicheng Yang , Ruiyu Li , Jiaya Jia

Diffusion models trained on large-scale datasets have achieved remarkable progress in image synthesis. However, due to the randomness in the diffusion process, they often struggle with handling diverse low-level tasks that require details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yuhao Liu , Zhanghan Ke , Fang Liu , Nanxuan Zhao , Rynson W. H. Lau

Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haowei Zhu , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

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 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

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment new classes using few annotated images. While recent FSS methods have shown considerable improvements by leveraging Segment Anything Model (SAM), they face two critical limitations: insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shuai Chen , Fanman Meng , Liming Lei , Haoran Wei , Chenhao Wu , Qingbo Wu , Linfeng Xu , Hongliang Li

We propose Foreground-Covering Prototype Generation and Matching to resolve Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment target regions in unlabeled query images based on labeled support images. Unlike previous research, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Suho Park , SuBeen Lee , Hyun Seok Seong , Jaejoon Yoo , Jae-Pil Heo

Domain Generalization techniques aim to enhance model robustness by simulating novel data distributions during training, typically through various augmentation or stylization strategies. However, these methods frequently suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mehrdad Noori , Milad Cheraghalikhani , Ali Bahri , Gustavo Adolfo Vargas Hakim , David Osowiechi , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Barbara Toniella Corradini , Mustafa Shukor , Paul Couairon , Guillaume Couairon , Franco Scarselli , Matthieu Cord