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Prior Guided Feature Enrichment Network for Few-Shot Segmentation

4 Aug 2020arXiv:2008.01449archive 2025-07-28

Zhuotao Tian, Hengshuang Zhao, Michelle Shu, Zhicheng Yang, Ruiyu Li, Jiaya Jia

State-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods require sufficient labeled data to achieve good results and hardly work on unseen classes without fine-tuning. Few-shot segmentation is thus proposed to tackle this problem by learning a model that quickly adapts to new classes with a few labeled support samples. Theses frameworks still face the challenge of generalization ability reduction on unseen classes due to inappropriate use of high-level semantic information of training classes and spatial inconsistency between query and support targets. To alleviate these issues, we propose the Prior Guided Feature Enrichment Network (PFENet). It consists of novel designs of (1) a training-free prior mask generation method that not only retains generalization power but also improves model performance and (2) Feature Enrichment Module (FEM) that overcomes spatial inconsistency by adaptively enriching query features with support features and prior masks. Extensive experiments on PASCAL-5ⁱ and COCO prove that the proposed prior generation method and FEM both improve the baseline method significantly. Our PFENet also outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin without efficiency loss. It is surprising that our model even generalizes to cases without labeled support samples. Our code is available at https://github.com/Jia-Research-Lab/PFENet/.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) PFENet (VGG-16) FB-IoU 60 #75 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) PFENet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 34.1 #75 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) FB-IoU 58.6 #79 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 32.4 #79 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (1-shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) learnable parameters (million) 10.3 #79 of 85 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) PFENet (VGG-16) FB-IoU 61.6 #75 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) PFENet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 37.7 #75 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) FB-IoU 61.9 #76 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 37.4 #76 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation COCO-20i (5-shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) learnable parameters (million) 10.3 #76 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-50) FB-IoU 73.3 #78 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-50) Mean IoU 60.8 #78 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-50) learnable parameters (million) 10.3 #78 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) FB-IoU 72.9 #82 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 60.1 #82 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) learnable parameters (million) 10.3 #82 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (VGG-16) FB-IoU 72 #90 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (1-Shot) PFENet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 58 #90 of 105 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-50) FB-IoU 73.9 #83 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-50) Mean IoU 61.9 #83 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-50) learnable parameters (million) 10.3 #83 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) FB-IoU 73.5 #84 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) Mean IoU 61.4 #84 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (ResNet-101) learnable parameters (million) 10.3 #84 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (VGG-16) FB-IoU 72.3 #89 of 96 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation PASCAL-5i (5-Shot) PFENet (VGG-16) Mean IoU 59 #89 of 96 Archive leaderboard report

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