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Pedro Henrique Targino Gama; Hugo Oliveira; Jefersson A. dos Santos; Roberto M. Cesar.

Computers & Graphics, Volume 113, Special Issue on SIBGRAPI 2022 Tutorials, 2023, Pages 77-88.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2023.05.009

Abstract

Semantic segmentation is a difficult task in computer vision that have applications in many scenarios, often as a preprocessing step for a tool. Current solutions are based on Deep Neural Networks, which often require a large amount of data for learning a task. Aiming to alleviate the strenuous data-collecting/annotating labor, research fields have emerged in recent years. One of them is Meta-Learning, which tries to improve the generability of models to learn in a restricted amount of data. In this work, we extend a previous paper conducting a more extensive overview of the still under-explored problem of Few-Shot Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation. We refined the previous taxonomy and included the review of additional methods, including Few-Shot Segmentation methods that could be adapted to the weak supervision. The goal is to provide a simple organization of literature and highlight aspects observed in the current moment, and be a starting point to foment research on this problem with applications in areas like medical imaging, remote sensing, video segmentation, and others.

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