SAM-Aug: Leveraging SAM Priors for Few-Shot Parcel Segmentation in Satellite Time Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09110v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:18:04 GMT
• Title: SAM-Aug: Leveraging SAM Priors for Few-Shot Parcel Segmentation in Satellite Time Series
• Authors: Kai Hu, Yaozu Feng, Vladimir Lysenko, Ya Guo Member, Huayi Wu,
• Abstract summary: We propose SAM-Aug, a new annotation-efficient framework to improve few-shot land cover mapping.<n>Our approach constructs cloud-free composite images from temporal sequences and applies SAM in a fully unsupervised manner.<n>Experiments on the PASTIS-R benchmark under a 5 percent labeled setting demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of SAM-Aug.
• Score: 3.4368348203064283
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Few-shot semantic segmentation of time-series remote sensing images remains a critical challenge, particularly in regions where labeled data is scarce or costly to obtain. While state-of-the-art models perform well under full supervision, their performance degrades significantly under limited labeling, limiting their real-world applicability. In this work, we propose SAM-Aug, a new annotation-efficient framework that leverages the geometry-aware segmentation capability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to improve few-shot land cover mapping. Our approach constructs cloud-free composite images from temporal sequences and applies SAM in a fully unsupervised manner to generate geometry-aware mask priors. These priors are then integrated into training through a proposed loss function called RegionSmoothLoss, which enforces prediction consistency within each SAM-derived region across temporal frames, effectively regularizing the model to respect semantically coherent structures. Extensive experiments on the PASTIS-R benchmark under a 5 percent labeled setting demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of SAM-Aug. Averaged over three random seeds (42, 2025, 4090), our method achieves a mean test mIoU of 36.21 percent, outperforming the state-of-the-art baseline by +2.33 percentage points, a relative improvement of 6.89 percent. Notably, on the most favorable split (seed=42), SAM-Aug reaches a test mIoU of 40.28 percent, representing an 11.2 percent relative gain with no additional labeled data. The consistent improvement across all seeds confirms the generalization power of leveraging foundation model priors under annotation scarcity. Our results highlight that vision models like SAM can serve as useful regularizers in few-shot remote sensing learning, offering a scalable and plug-and-play solution for land cover monitoring without requiring manual annotations or model fine-tuning.

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