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Main Authors: Ni, Huan, Liu, Qingshan, Niu, Xiaonan, Hong, Danfeng, Zhao, Lingli, Guan, Haiyan
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01299
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author Ni, Huan
Liu, Qingshan
Niu, Xiaonan
Hong, Danfeng
Zhao, Lingli
Guan, Haiyan
author_facet Ni, Huan
Liu, Qingshan
Niu, Xiaonan
Hong, Danfeng
Zhao, Lingli
Guan, Haiyan
contents Cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to segment unseen categories with very limited samples while alleviating the negative effects of domain shift between the source and target domains. At present, existing CD-FSS studies typically rely on multiple independent modules to enhance cross-domain adaptability. However, the independence among these modules hinders the effective flow of knowledge, making it difficult to fully leverage their collective potential. In contrast, this paper proposes an all-in-one module based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and the Fourier transform, resulting in a structurally concise method-Few-Shot Segmentation over Time Intervals (FSS-TIs). FSS-TIs not only explores a domain-agnostic feature space, but also achieves significant performance improvement through target-domain fine-tuning with extremely limited support samples. Specifically, the ODE modeling process incorporates nonlinear transformations and random perturbations of the amplitude and phase spectra, effectively simulating potential target-domain data distributions. Meanwhile, the analytical solution of the ODE is transformed into a theoretically infinitely iterable feature refinement process, thereby enhancing the learning capability under limited support samples. In this way, both the exploration of domain-agnostic features and the few-shot learning problem can be addressed through the optimization of the intrinsic parameters of the ODE. Moreover, during target-domain fine-tuning, we strictly constrain the support samples to match the settings of real-world CD-FSS tasks, without incurring additional annotation costs. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of FSS-TIs over existing CD-FSS methods, and in-depth ablation studies further validate the cross-domain adaptability of FSS-TIs.
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spellingShingle Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation via Ordinary Differential Equations over Time Intervals
Ni, Huan
Liu, Qingshan
Niu, Xiaonan
Hong, Danfeng
Zhao, Lingli
Guan, Haiyan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to segment unseen categories with very limited samples while alleviating the negative effects of domain shift between the source and target domains. At present, existing CD-FSS studies typically rely on multiple independent modules to enhance cross-domain adaptability. However, the independence among these modules hinders the effective flow of knowledge, making it difficult to fully leverage their collective potential. In contrast, this paper proposes an all-in-one module based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and the Fourier transform, resulting in a structurally concise method-Few-Shot Segmentation over Time Intervals (FSS-TIs). FSS-TIs not only explores a domain-agnostic feature space, but also achieves significant performance improvement through target-domain fine-tuning with extremely limited support samples. Specifically, the ODE modeling process incorporates nonlinear transformations and random perturbations of the amplitude and phase spectra, effectively simulating potential target-domain data distributions. Meanwhile, the analytical solution of the ODE is transformed into a theoretically infinitely iterable feature refinement process, thereby enhancing the learning capability under limited support samples. In this way, both the exploration of domain-agnostic features and the few-shot learning problem can be addressed through the optimization of the intrinsic parameters of the ODE. Moreover, during target-domain fine-tuning, we strictly constrain the support samples to match the settings of real-world CD-FSS tasks, without incurring additional annotation costs. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of FSS-TIs over existing CD-FSS methods, and in-depth ablation studies further validate the cross-domain adaptability of FSS-TIs.
title Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation via Ordinary Differential Equations over Time Intervals
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01299