# Task-Adaptive Feature Transformer with Semantic Enrichment for Few-Shot Segmentation

Source: [Task-Adaptive Feature Transformer with Semantic Enrichment for Few-Shot Segmentation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6bda1e209131cea30985>)

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Authors: Jun Seo, Young-Hyun Park, Sung Whan Yoon, Jaekyun Moon

Published: 2022-02-14T06:16:26.000Z

## Abstract

Few-shot learning allows machines to classify novel classes using only a few labeled samples. Recently, few-shot segmentation aiming at semantic segmentation on low sample data has also seen great interest. In this paper, we propose a learnable module that can be placed on top of existing segmentation networks for performing few-shot segmentation. This module, called the task-adaptive feature transformer (TAFT), linearly transforms task-specific high-level features to a set of task agnostic features well-suited to conducting few-shot segmentation. The task-conditioned feature transformation allows an effective utilization of the semantic information in novel classes to generate tight segmentation masks. We also propose a semantic enrichment (SE) module that utilizes a pixel-wise attention module for high-level feature and an auxiliary loss from an auxiliary segmentation network conducting the semantic segmentation for all training classes. Experiments on PASCAL-$5^i$ and COCO-$20^i$ datasets confirm that the added modules successfully extend the capability of existing segmentators to yield highly competitive few-shot segmentation performances.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06498>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.06498.pdf>)
