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
Recommended Citation
J. Johnander, J. Edstedt, M. Felsberg, F.S. Khan, and M. Danelljan, "Dense Gaussian processes for few-shot segmentation", in Computer Vision (ECCV 2022), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13689, pp. 217-234, Oct. 2022, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-19818-2_13
Additional Links
Preprint available in arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03674
Comments
IR conditions: non-described