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Prototype learning and decoder construction are the keys for few-shot segmentation. However, existing methods use only a single prototype generation mode, which can not cope with the intractable problem of objects with various scales.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hongsheng Wang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Jinqing Qi

Research into Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) has attracted great attention, with the goal to segment target objects in a query image given only a few annotated support images of the target class. A key to this challenging task is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xinyu Shi , Dong Wei , Yu Zhang , Donghuan Lu , Munan Ning , Jiashun Chen , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to recognize novel classes with only very few labelled data. This challenging task requires mining of the relevant relationships between the query image and the support images. Previous works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Wei Ao , Shunyi Zheng , Yan Meng

In Few-Shot Learning (FSL), traditional metric-based approaches often rely on global metrics to compute similarity. However, in natural scenes, the spatial arrangement of key instances is often inconsistent across images. This spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hao Tang , Junhao Lu , Guoheng Huang , Ming Li , Xuhang Chen , Guo Zhong , Zhengguang Tan , Zinuo Li

Image-level weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) reduces the usually vast data annotation cost by surrogate segmentation masks during training. The typical approach involves training an image classification network using global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Yushan Zhang , Michael Felsberg

Few-shot segmentation enables the model to recognize unseen classes with few annotated examples. Most existing methods adopt prototype learning architecture, where support prototype vectors are expanded and concatenated with query features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xiaoyu Zhao , Xiaoqian Chen , Zhiqiang Gong , Wen Yao , Yunyang Zhang , Xiaohu Zheng

Meta-learning offers a promising avenue for few-shot learning (FSL), enabling models to glean a generalizable feature embedding through episodic training on synthetic FSL tasks in a source domain. Yet, in practical scenarios where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fei Zhou , Peng Wang , Lei Zhang , Zhenghua Chen , Wei Wei , Chen Ding , Guosheng Lin , Yanning Zhang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) in histopathology relies heavily on classification backbones, yet these models often localize only the most discriminative regions and struggle to capture the full spatial extent of tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Khang Le , Ha Thach , Anh M. Vu , Trang T. K. Vo , Han H. Huynh , David Yang , Minh H. N. Le , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Akash Awasthi , Chandra Mohan , Zhu Han , Hien Van Nguyen

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to utilize limited labeled images and abundant unlabeled images to achieve label-efficient learning, wherein the weak-to-strong consistency regularization framework, popularized by FixMatch, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Wentao Pan , Zhe Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Zihan Wu , Raymond Kai-yu Tong , Xiu Li , Jianhua Yao

Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to segment novel classes from target domains that are not involved in training and have significantly different data distributions from the source domain, using only a few annotated samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sujun Sun , Haowen Gu , Cheng Xie , Yanxu Ren , Mingwu Ren , Haofeng Zhang

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

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection (CD-FSOD) aims to detect novel objects with only a handful of labeled samples from previously unseen domains. While data augmentation and generative methods have shown promise in few-shot learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yu Li , Xingyu Qiu , Yuqian Fu , Jie Chen , Tianwen Qian , Xu Zheng , Danda Pani Paudel , Yanwei Fu , Xuanjing Huang , Luc Van Gool , Yu-Gang Jiang

Zero-shot Panoptic Segmentation (ZPS) aims to recognize foreground instances and background stuff without images containing unseen categories in training. Due to the visual data sparsity and the difficulty of generalizing from seen to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jialei Chen , Daisuke Deguchi , Chenkai Zhang , Hiroshi Murase

This work aims to leverage pre-trained foundation models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) and segment anything model (SAM), to address weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment the target objects in query under the condition of a few annotated support images. Most previous works strive to mine more effective category information from the support to match with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yuanwei Liu , Nian Liu , Xiwen Yao , Junwei Han

We present an approach for jointly matching and segmenting object instances of the same category within a collection of images. In contrast to existing algorithms that tackle the tasks of semantic matching and object co-segmentation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yun-Chun Chen , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jia-Bin Huang

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to enable models to recognize novel objects or classes with limited labelled data. Feature generators, which synthesize new data points to augment limited datasets, have emerged as a promising solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Heethanjan Kanagalingam , Thenukan Pathmanathan , Navaneethan Ketheeswaran , Mokeeshan Vathanakumar , Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

Few-shot segmentation aims to accurately segment novel target objects within query images using only a limited number of annotated support images. The recent works exploit support background as well as its foreground to precisely compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Suho Park , SuBeen Lee , Sangeek Hyun , Hyun Seok Seong , Jae-Pil Heo

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li