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Semantic segmentation is an important topic in computer vision with many relevant application in Earth observation. While supervised methods exist, the constraints of limited annotated data has encouraged development of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Pratik Vora , Sudipan Saha

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

The reliance on large labeled datasets presents a significant challenge in medical image segmentation. Few-shot learning offers a potential solution, but existing methods often still require substantial training data. This paper proposes a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Haiyue Zu , Jun Ge , Heting Xiao , Jile Xie , Zhangzhe Zhou , Yifan Meng , Jiayi Ni , Junjie Niu , Linlin Zhang , Li Ni , Huilin Yang

For more efficient generalization to unseen domains (classes), most Few-shot Segmentation (FSS) would directly exploit pre-trained encoders and only fine-tune the decoder, especially in the current era of large models. However, such fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Wenhui Diao , Peijin Wang , Yongqiang Mao , Kun Fu , Hongqi Wang , Xian Sun

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn novel visual categories from very few samples, which is a challenging problem in real-world applications. Many methods of few-shot classification work well on general images to learn global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojian He , Jinfu Lin , Junming Shen

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 segmentation is a task to segment objects or regions of novel classes within an image given only a few annotated examples. In the generalized setting, the task extends to segment both the base and the novel classes. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Hagai Raja Sinulingga

Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) advances open-vocabulary segmentation through promptable concept segmentation, enabling users to segment all instances associated with a given concept using short noun-phrase (NP) prompts. While effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jingjing Li , Yue Feng , Yuchen Guo , Jincai Huang , Wei Ji , Qi Bi , Yongri Piao , Miao Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Qiang Chen , Shihao Zou , Huchuan Lu , Li Cheng

The primary challenge of cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) is the domain disparity between the training and inference phases, which can exist in either the input data or the target classes. Previous models struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shi-Feng Peng , Guolei Sun , Yong Li , Hongsong Wang , Guo-Sen Xie

This paper investigates the fundamental discontinuity between the latest two Segment Anything Models: SAM2 and SAM3. We explain why the expertise in prompt-based segmentation of SAM2 does not transfer to the multimodal concept-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

Few-shot 3D point cloud segmentation (FS-PCS) aims at generalizing models to segment novel categories with minimal annotated support samples. While existing FS-PCS methods have shown promise, they primarily focus on unimodal point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Runjia Li , Min Wu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ender Konukoglu , Serge Belongie

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is crucial in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress in object segmentation, part-level segmentation remains underexplored due to complex boundaries and scarce annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinjian Wu , Ruisong Zhang , Jie Qin , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated excellent performance in image generation. Although various few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) models with different network structures have been proposed, performance improvement has reached a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Weimin Tan , Siyuan Chen , Bo Yan

Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (GFSS) extends Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) to simultaneously segment unseen classes and seen classes during evaluation. Previous works leverage additional branch or prototypical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kai Huang , Feigege Wang , Ye Xi , Yutao Gao

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

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment objects from previously unseen classes using only a limited number of labeled examples. In this paper, we introduce Label Anything, a novel transformer-based architecture designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Pasquale De Marinis , Nicola Fanelli , Raffaele Scaringi , Emanuele Colonna , Giuseppe Fiameni , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano

The key challenge for few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is how to tailor a desirable interaction among support and query features and/or their prototypes, under the episodic training scenario. Most existing FSS methods implement such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jie Liu , Yanqi Bao , Guo-Sen Xie , Huan Xiong , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

In light of the diminishing returns of traditional methods for enhancing transmission rates, the domain of semantic communication presents promising new frontiers. Focusing on image transmission, this paper explores the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shehbaz Tariq , Brian Estadimas Arfeto , Chaoning Zhang , Hyundong Shin

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

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has been widely studied to relieve the annotation burden of the traditional segmentation task. In this paper, we show that existing fully-annotated base categories can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Siyuan Zhou , Li Niu , Jianlou Si , Chen Qian , Liqing Zhang