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APANet: Adaptive Prototypes Alignment Network for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

24 Nov 2021arXiv:2111.12263archive 2025-07-28

Jiacheng Chen, Bin-Bin Gao, Zongqing Lu, Jing-Hao Xue, Chengjie Wang, Qingmin Liao

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 query feature to a learned class-specific prototype. However, this framework suffers from biased classification due to incomplete feature comparisons. To address this issue, we present an adaptive prototype representation by introducing class-specific and class-agnostic prototypes and thus construct complete sample pairs for learning semantic alignment with query features. The complementary features learning manner effectively enriches feature comparison and helps yield an unbiased segmentation model in the few-shot setting. It is implemented with a two-branch end-to-end network (i.e., a class-specific branch and a class-agnostic branch), which generates prototypes and then combines query features to perform comparisons. In addition, the proposed class-agnostic branch is simple yet effective. In practice, it can adaptively generate multiple class-agnostic prototypes for query images and learn feature alignment in a self-contrastive manner. Extensive experiments on PASCAL-5ⁱ and COCO-20ⁱ demonstrate the superiority of our method. At no expense of inference efficiency, our model achieves state-of-the-art results in both 1-shot and 5-shot settings for semantic segmentation.

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Few-Shot Semantic SegmentationMetric LearningSegmentationSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) APANet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 41.9 #54 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) APANet (ResNet-50) Mean IoU 40.5 #62 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) APANet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 37.2 #70 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) APANet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 46.4 #60 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) APANet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 43.2 #65 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) APANet (ResNet-50) Mean IoU 43 #66 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) APANet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 64 #64 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) APANet (ResNet-50) Mean IoU 63 #70 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) APANet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 59 #88 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) APANet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 68 #60 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) APANet (ResNet-50) Mean IoU 66 #71 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) APANet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 62.6 #81 of 96 Archive leaderboard report

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