Few-shot segmentation has gained significant attention owning to the effectiveness in segmenting unseen classes with a few annotated images. However, there exist two challenges in previous works. 1) They focus on extracting foreground features of support images to guide the segmentation of unseen classes, which causes the loss of useful information and obtains a limited representation of the overall context. 2) They inevitably produce a bias towards base (seen) classes due to the meta-training on the base dataset. That is, the segmentation performance of models can not be guaranteed when predicting images whose backgrounds are similar to classes in the base dataset. To this end, a few-shot segmentation network robust to the background interference (RB-net) is proposed. Specifically, RB-net utilizes middle layers of feature extractors to extract multi-level representations for enhancing the generalization of features. Then, a self-guided prototype correlation learning is designed via mo
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Few-shot learning, especially few-shot image classification, has received increasing attention and witnessed significant advances in recent years. Some recent studies implicitly show that many generic techniques or “tricks”, such as data augmentation, pre-training, knowledge distillation, and self-supervision, may greatly boost the performance of a few-shot learning method. Moreover, different works may employ different software platforms, backbone architectures and input image sizes, making fair comparisons difficult and practitioners struggle with reproducibility. To address these situations, we propose a comprehensive library for few-shot learning (LibFewShot) by re-implementing eighteen state-of-the-art few-shot learning methods in a unified framework with the same single codebase in PyTorch. Furthermore, based on LibFewShot, we provide comprehensive evaluations on multiple benchmarks with various backbone architectures to evaluate common pitfalls and effects of different train
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