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Label Anything: Multi-Class Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation with Visual Prompts

arXiv 2407.02075 ↗First posted 2 Jul 2024cs.CVcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment objects from previously unseen classes using only a limited number of labeled examples. In this paper, we introduce Label Anything, a novel transformer-based architecture designed for multi-prompt, multi-way few-shot semantic segmentation. Our approach leverages diverse visual prompts -- points, bounding boxes, and masks -- to create a highly flexible and generalizable framework that significantly reduces annotation burden while maintaining high accuracy. Label Anything makes three key contributions: (textiti) we introduce a new task formulation that relaxes conventional few-shot segmentation constraints by supporting various types of prompts, multi-class classification, and enabling multiple prompts within a single image; (textitii) we propose a novel architecture based on transformers and attention mechanisms; and (textitiii) we design a versatile training procedure allowing our model to operate seamlessly across different N-way K-shot and prompt-type configurations with a single trained model. Our extensive experimental evaluation on the widely used COCO-20i benchmark demonstrates that Label Anything achieves state-of-the-art performance among existing multi-way few-shot segmentation methods, while significantly outperforming leading single-class models when evaluated in multi-class settings. Code and trained models are available at https://github.com/pasqualedem/LabelAnything.

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