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MFNet: Multi-class Few-shot Segmentation Network with Pixel-wise Metric Learning

30 Oct 2021arXiv:2111.00232archive 2025-07-28

Miao Zhang, Miaojing Shi, Li Li

In visual recognition tasks, few-shot learning requires the ability to learn object categories with few support examples. Its re-popularity in light of the deep learning development is mainly in image classification. This work focuses on few-shot semantic segmentation, which is still a largely unexplored field. A few recent advances are often restricted to single-class few-shot segmentation. In this paper, we first present a novel multi-way (class) encoding and decoding architecture which effectively fuses multi-scale query information and multi-class support information into one query-support embedding. Multi-class segmentation is directly decoded upon this embedding. For better feature fusion, a multi-level attention mechanism is proposed within the architecture, which includes the attention for support feature modulation and attention for multi-scale combination. Last, to enhance the embedding space learning, an additional pixel-wise metric learning module is introduced with triplet loss formulated on the pixel-level embedding of the input image. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks PASCAL-5i and COCO-20i show clear benefits of our method over the state of the art in few-shot segmentation

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Few-Shot LearningFew-Shot Semantic SegmentationImage ClassificationMetric LearningSegmentationSemantic Segmentationimage-classification

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Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (2-way 1-shot) MFNet (ResNet-50) mIoU 24.1 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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