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MaskSplit: Self-supervised Meta-learning for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

23 Oct 2021arXiv:2110.12207archive 2025-07-28

Mustafa Sercan Amac, Ahmet Sencan, Orhun Bugra Baran, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test classes, there is still a need to annotate the training data. To alleviate this need, we propose a self-supervised training approach for learning few-shot segmentation models. We first use unsupervised saliency estimation to obtain pseudo-masks on images. We then train a simple prototype based model over different splits of pseudo masks and augmentations of images. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed approach achieves promising results, highlighting the potential of self-supervised training. To the best of our knowledge this is the first work that addresses unsupervised few-shot segmentation problem on natural images.

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Few-Shot LearningFew-Shot Semantic SegmentationMeta-LearningSaliency PredictionSegmentationSemantic Segmentation

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