S3DNet: Support-Driven Spatial–Semantic Decoupling for Few-Shot Strip-Steel Surface Defect Segmentation

Few-shot strip-steel surface defect segmentation requires a model to identify unseen defect categories and delineate their precise boundaries from only a few annotated support images. This remains challenging because strip-steel defects are often small, elongated, low-contrast, and easily confused with repetitive background textures. To address these challenges, we propose the Support-Driven Spatial–Semantic Decoupling Network (S3DNet), which preserves a frozen DINOv3 encoder while explicitly separating support-conditioned semantic adaptation from fine-grained spatial refinement. Specifically, a low-rank prototype adapter transforms the masked support prototype into an episode-conditioned semantic update of the query tokens, enabling the frozen representation to adapt to the defect category specified by the current support set. In parallel, a lightweight spatial adapter extracts multiscale local cues for recovering weak boundaries and thin structures. A spatial–semantic interaction module subsequently uses support–query semantic similarity to selectively gate these spatial cues before progressive decoding, thereby suppressing irrelevant texture responses while retaining defect-relevant details. Experiments on FSSD-12 demonstrate that S3DNet consistently outperforms representative CNN-based few-shot segmentation methods under both 1-shot and 5-shot settings, while the lightweight DINOv3-Small configuration achieves a favorable accuracy–efficiency trade-off. Ablation and qualitative analyses further validate the effectiveness and complementarity of the proposed semantic adaptation, spatial refinement, and interaction mechanisms.

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Mathematics
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2026-10-14
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https://doi.org/10.3390/math14203730
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Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
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S3DNet: Support-Driven Spatial–Semantic Decoupling for Few-Shot Strip-Steel Surface Defect Segmentation

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S3DNet: Support-Driven Spatial–Semantic Decoupling for Few-Shot Strip-Steel Surface Defect Segmentation

Jiacheng Huang, Fengling Lei, Zhiguo Li, Xiaofei Zhou, Baitong Wang, Jingguang Yang, Ju Zhao
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Abstract

Few-shot strip-steel surface defect segmentation requires a model to identify unseen defect categories and delineate their precise boundaries from only a few annotated support images. This remains challenging because strip-steel defects are often small, elongated, low-contrast, and easily confused with repetitive background textures. To address these challenges, we propose the Support-Driven Spatial–Semantic Decoupling Network (S3DNet), which preserves a frozen DINOv3 encoder while explicitly separating support-conditioned semantic adaptation from fine-grained spatial refinement. Specifically, a low-rank prototype adapter transforms the masked support prototype into an episode-conditioned semantic update of the query tokens, enabling the frozen representation to adapt to the defect category specified by the current support set. In parallel, a lightweight spatial adapter extracts multiscale local cues for recovering weak boundaries and thin structures. A spatial–semantic interaction module subsequently uses support–query semantic similarity to selectively gate these spatial cues before progressive decoding, thereby suppressing irrelevant texture responses while retaining defect-relevant details. Experiments on FSSD-12 demonstrate that S3DNet consistently outperforms representative CNN-based few-shot segmentation methods under both 1-shot and 5-shot settings, while the lightweight DINOv3-Small configuration achieves a favorable accuracy–efficiency trade-off. Ablation and qualitative analyses further validate the effectiveness and complementarity of the proposed semantic adaptation, spatial refinement, and interaction mechanisms.

MathematicsVol. 14(20)
Gezhouba Group (China) (CN), Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group (China) (CN), Dahua Technology (China) (CN), Hangzhou Dianzi University (CN)
Openalex Percentile: Top 13%
Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
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