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Recent work has shown that label-efficient few-shot learning through self-supervision can achieve promising medical image segmentation results. However, few-shot segmentation models typically rely on prototype representations of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Stine Hansen , Srishti Gautam , Robert Jenssen , Michael Kampffmeyer

Common prototype-based medical image few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods model foreground and background classes using class-specific prototypes. However, given the high variability of the background, a more promising direction is to focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hyeongji Kim , Stine Hansen , Michael Kampffmeyer

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

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

This paper revisits few-shot 3D point cloud semantic segmentation (FS-PCS), with a focus on two significant issues in the state-of-the-art: foreground leakage and sparse point distribution. The former arises from non-uniform point sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Fayao Liu , Zongwei Wu , Dan Wang , Luc Van Gool , Serge Belongie

We address the problem of few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS), which aims to segment novel class objects in a target image with a few annotated samples. Though recent advances have been made by incorporating prototype-based metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Hyeongjun Kwon , Somi Jeong , Sunok Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

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 semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen classes in query images with only a few annotated support images. Existing FSS algorithms typically focus on mining category representations from the single-view support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) is a challenging task that utilizes limited support images to segment associated unseen objects in query images. However, recent FSS methods are observed to perform worse, when enlarging the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Wailing Tang , Biqi Yang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Yun-Hui Liu , Chi-Wing Fu

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

Few-shot segmentation performance declines substantially when facing images from a domain different than the training domain, effectively limiting real-world use cases. To alleviate this, recently cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jonas Herzog

The recent popularity of foundation models and the pre-train-and-adapt paradigm, where a large-scale model is transferred to downstream tasks, is gaining attention for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, current transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Jose Dolz , Ismail Ben Ayed

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims at performing semantic segmentation on novel classes given a few annotated support samples. With a rethink of recent advances, we find that the current FSS framework has deviated far from the supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jian-Wei Zhang , Yifan Sun , Yi Yang , Wei Chen

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) is a dense prediction task that aims to infer the pixel-wise labels of unseen classes using only a limited number of annotated images. The key challenge in FSS is to classify the labels of query pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Wenbo Xu , Huaxi Huang , Ming Cheng , Litao Yu , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

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

Infrared (IR) imaging is commonly used in various scenarios, including autonomous driving, fire safety and defense applications. Thus, semantic segmentation of such images is of great interest. However, this task faces several challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Junno Yun , Mehmet Akçakaya

Recently few-shot segmentation (FSS) has been extensively developed. Most previous works strive to achieve generalization through the meta-learning framework derived from classification tasks; however, the trained models are biased towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chunbo Lang , Gong Cheng , Binfei Tu , Junwei Han

Recent progress on few-shot learning largely relies on annotated data for meta-learning: base classes sampled from the same domain as the novel classes. However, in many applications, collecting data for meta-learning is infeasible or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yunhui Guo , Noel C. Codella , Leonid Karlinsky , James V. Codella , John R. Smith , Kate Saenko , Tajana Rosing , Rogerio Feris

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

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