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Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to rapidly learn novel class concepts from limited examples to segment specific targets in unseen images, and has been widely applied in areas such as medical diagnosis and industrial inspection. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qianyu Guo , Jingrong Wu , Jieji Ren , Weifeng Ge , Wenqiang Zhang

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Existing methods suffer the problem of feature undermining, i.e. potential novel classes are treated as background during training phase. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lihe Yang , Wei Zhuo , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a given query image with only a few labeled support images. Most advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through matching each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS), which focuses on segmenting new classes in images using only a limited number of annotated examples, has recently progressed in data-scarce domains. However, in this work, we show that the existing FSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhuohao Li , Zhicheng Huang , Wenchao Liu , Zhuxin Zhang , Jianming Miao

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

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods perform image segmentation for a particular object class in a target (query) image, using a small set of (support) image-mask pairs. Recent deep neural network based FSS methods leverage high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siddhartha Gairola , Mayur Hemani , Ayush Chopra , Balaji Krishnamurthy

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

Few-Shot Segmentation (FSS) aims to learn class-agnostic segmentation on few classes to segment arbitrary classes, but at the risk of overfitting. To address this, some methods use the well-learned knowledge of foundation models (e.g., SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Qianxiong Xu , Lanyun Zhu , Xuanyi Liu , Guosheng Lin , Cheng Long , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao

FSS(Few-shot segmentation) aims to segment a target class using a small number of labeled images(support set). To extract information relevant to the target class, a dominant approach in best-performing FSS methods removes background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Seonghyeon Moon , Samuel S. Sohn , Honglu Zhou , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic , Muhammad Haris Khan , Mubbasir Kapadia

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes using a few annotated samples. Typically, a prototype representing the foreground class is extracted from annotated support image(s) and is matched to features representing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Haoyan Guan , Michael Spratling

Segmentation refinement aims to enhance the initial coarse masks generated by segmentation algorithms. The refined masks are expected to capture more details and better contours of the target objects. Research on segmentation refinement has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Seonghyeon Moon , Qingze , Liu , Haein Kong , Muhammad Haris Khan

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to achieve novel objects segmentation with only a few annotated samples and has made great progress recently. Most of the existing FSS models focus on the feature matching between support and query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jie Liu , Yanqi Bao , Wenzhe Yin , Haochen Wang , Yang Gao , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

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

Few-shot image classification learns to recognize new categories from limited labelled data. Metric learning based approaches have been widely investigated, where a query sample is classified by finding the nearest prototype from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Zhizheng Zhang , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen , Shih-Fu Chang

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

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

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

Traditional semantic segmentation tasks require a large number of labels and are difficult to identify unlearned categories. Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to use limited labeled support images to identify the segmentation of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xianglin Wang , Xiaoliu Luo , Taiping Zhang

Semantic segmentation models have two fundamental weaknesses: i) they require large training sets with costly pixel-level annotations, and ii) they have a static output space, constrained to the classes of the training set. Toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Yongqin Xian , Zeynep Akata , Barbara Caputo

Few-shot learning aims at recognizing new instances from classes with limited samples. This challenging task is usually alleviated by performing meta-learning on similar tasks. However, the resulting models are black-boxes. There has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mohammad Reza Zarei , Majid Komeili