# Few-Shot Segmentation via Rich Prototype Generation and Recurrent Prediction Enhancement

Source: [Few-Shot Segmentation via Rich Prototype Generation and Recurrent Prediction Enhancement](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6d901e209131cea3aa41>)

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Authors: Hongsheng Wang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Youwei Pang, Jinqing Qi

Published: 2022-10-03T08:46:52.000Z

## Abstract

Prototype learning and decoder construction are the keys for few-shot segmentation. However, existing methods use only a single prototype generation mode, which can not cope with the intractable problem of objects with various scales. Moreover, the one-way forward propagation adopted by previous methods may cause information dilution from registered features during the decoding process. In this research, we propose a rich prototype generation module (RPGM) and a recurrent prediction enhancement module (RPEM) to reinforce the prototype learning paradigm and build a unified memory-augmented decoder for few-shot segmentation, respectively. Specifically, the RPGM combines superpixel and K-means clustering to generate rich prototype features with complementary scale relationships and adapt the scale gap between support and query images. The RPEM utilizes the recurrent mechanism to design a round-way propagation decoder. In this way, registered features can provide object-aware information continuously. Experiments show that our method consistently outperforms other competitors on two popular benchmarks PASCAL-${{5}^{i}}$ and COCO-${{20}^{i}}$.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00765>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.00765.pdf>)
