Hybrid token learning with bidirectional attention for few-shot semantic segmentation
摘要
Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to segment objects of unseen categories using only a handful of annotated samples. A central challenge lies in learning transferable representations that generalize across large intra-class variations and high inter-class similarity under extreme data scarcity. In this work, we introduce a novel hybrid token learning framework equipped with bidirectional attention to tackle these issues. Our approach first extracts adaptive tokens from support images, encoding both target-specific details and background context, and then integrates them with a set of learnable target-agnostic tokens to form a hybrid token representation. These tokens are refined through a Symbiotic Attention Refinement Module, which employs bidirectional masked cross-attention to enable co-adaptive optimization between tokens and query features. Experiments on standard natural image benchmarks, PASCAL-