Beyond Mask: Rethinking Guidance Types in Few-shot Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11503v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:41:01 GMT
• Title: Beyond Mask: Rethinking Guidance Types in Few-shot Segmentation
• Authors: Shijie Chang, Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Lihe Zhang, Huchuan Lu,
• Abstract summary: We develop a universal vision-language framework (UniFSS) to integrate prompts from text, mask, box, and image. UniFSS significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
• Score: 67.35274834837064
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Existing few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods mainly focus on prototype feature generation and the query-support matching mechanism. As a crucial prompt for generating prototype features, the pair of image-mask types in the support set has become the default setting. However, various types such as image, text, box, and mask all can provide valuable information regarding the objects in context, class, localization, and shape appearance. Existing work focuses on specific combinations of guidance, leading FSS into different research branches. Rethinking guidance types in FSS is expected to explore the efficient joint representation of the coupling between the support set and query set, giving rise to research trends in the weakly or strongly annotated guidance to meet the customized requirements of practical users. In this work, we provide the generalized FSS with seven guidance paradigms and develop a universal vision-language framework (UniFSS) to integrate prompts from text, mask, box, and image. Leveraging the advantages of large-scale pre-training vision-language models in textual and visual embeddings, UniFSS proposes high-level spatial correction and embedding interactive units to overcome the semantic ambiguity drawbacks typically encountered by pure visual matching methods when facing intra-class appearance diversities. Extensive experiments show that UniFSS significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. Notably, the weakly annotated class-aware box paradigm even surpasses the finely annotated mask paradigm.

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