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Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to segment novel classes in target domains using only a few annotated samples. Existing methods typically rely on training or fine-tuning on source data, which often leads to overfitting and high computational costs, especially when incorporating powerful vision foundation models. This paper investigates whether a training-free framework can achieve state-of-the-art performance while avoiding these pitfalls.
The authors introduce a training-free framework built upon the DINOv3 vision encoder. The framework consists of three core modules designed to enhance semantic representation and matching without any trainable parameters:
The study demonstrates that integrating vision foundation models into traditional training-based CD-FSS paradigms often yields marginal improvements or performance degradation due to overfitting. By eliminating all trainable parameters, the proposed framework effectively utilizes the generalizable knowledge of DINOv3. Extensive experiments across four target domain datasets show that this training-free approach achieves state-of-the-art results, outperforming existing methods that rely on source-domain training or target-domain fine-tuning.
This research provides a robust alternative to conventional meta-learning or fine-tuning strategies in few-shot segmentation. By demonstrating that high-quality semantic representations can be extracted and matched without training, the authors offer a more efficient and generalizable solution for real-world scenarios where target domains differ significantly from source data.
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