Dense Gaussian processes for few-shot segmentation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Abstract

Few-shot segmentation is a challenging dense prediction task, which entails segmenting a novel query image given only a small annotated support set. The key problem is thus to design a method that aggregates detailed information from the support set, while being robust to large variations in appearance and context. To this end, we propose a few-shot segmentation method based on dense Gaussian process (GP) regression. Given the support set, our dense GP learns the mapping from local deep image features to mask values, capable of capturing complex appearance distributions. Furthermore, it provides a principled means of capturing uncertainty, which serves as another powerful cue for the final segmentation, obtained by a CNN decoder. Instead of a one-dimensional mask output, we further exploit the end-to-end learning capabilities of our approach to learn a high-dimensional output space for the GP. Our approach sets a new state-of-the-art on the PASCAL-5 i and COCO-20 i benchmarks, achieving an absolute gain of + 8.4 mIoU in the COCO-20 i 5-shot setting. Furthermore, the segmentation quality of our approach scales gracefully when increasing the support set size, while achieving robust cross-dataset transfer. Code and trained models are available at https://github.com/joakimjohnander/dgpnet. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

First Page

217

Last Page

234

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-19818-2_13

Publication Date

10-22-2022

Keywords

Gaussian distribution, Image segmentation

Comments

IR conditions: non-described

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