# Applying ViT in Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

Source: [Applying ViT in Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa74a71e209131cea62f46>)

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Authors: Liyuan Geng, Jinhong Xia, Yuanhe Guo

Published: 2024-08-27T11:04:53.000Z

## Abstract

This paper explores the capability of ViT-based models under the generalized few-shot semantic segmentation (GFSS) framework. We conduct experiments with various combinations of backbone models, including ResNets and pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models, along with decoders featuring a linear classifier, UPerNet, and Mask Transformer. The structure made of DINOv2 and linear classifier takes the lead on popular few-shot segmentation bench mark PASCAL-$5^i$, substantially outperforming the best of ResNet structure by 116% in one-shot scenario. We demonstrate the great potential of large pretrained ViT-based model on GFSS task, and expect further improvement on testing benchmarks. However, a potential caveat is that when applying pure ViT-based model and large scale ViT decoder, the model is easy to overfit.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14957>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.14957.pdf>)
