{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-self-distillation-embedded-supervised","title":"A Self-Distillation Embedded Supervised Affinity Attention Model for Few-Shot Segmentation","arxiv_id":"2108.06600","date":"2021-08-14","proceeding":null,"authors":["Qi Zhao","Binghao Liu","Shuchang Lyu","Huojin Chen"],"abstract":"Few-shot segmentation focuses on the generalization of models to segment unseen object with limited annotated samples. However, existing approaches still face two main challenges. First, huge feature distinction between support and query images causes knowledge transferring barrier, which harms the segmentation performance. Second, limited support prototypes cannot adequately represent features of support objects, hard to guide high-quality query segmentation. To deal with the above two issues, we propose self-distillation embedded supervised affinity attention model to improve the performance of few-shot segmentation task. Specifically, the self-distillation guided prototype module uses self-distillation to align the features of support and query. The supervised affinity attention module generates high-quality query attention map to provide sufficient object information. Extensive experiments prove that our model significantly improves the performance compared to existing methods. Comprehensive ablation experiments and visualization studies also show the significant effect of our method on few-shot segmentation task. On COCO-20i dataset, we achieve new state-of-the-art results. Training code and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/cv516Buaa/SD-AANet.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06600v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.06600v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-self-distillation-embedded-supervised","repo_url":"https://github.com/cv516buaa/sd-aanet","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"few-shot-image-segmentation","task_name":"Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"segmentation","task_name":"Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"semantic-segmentation","task_name":"Semantic Segmentation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2108.06600","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}