  Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment unseen class objects
with the guidance of only a few support images. Most previous methods rely on
the pixel-level label of support images. In this paper, we focus on a more
challenging setting, in which only the image-level labels are available. We
propose a general framework to firstly generate coarse masks with the help of
the powerful vision-language model CLIP, and then iteratively and mutually
refine the mask predictions of support and query images. Extensive experiments
on PASCAL-5i and COCO-20i datasets demonstrate that our method not only
outperforms the state-of-the-art weakly supervised approaches by a significant
margin, but also achieves comparable or better results to recent supervised
methods. Moreover, our method owns an excellent generalization ability for the
images in the wild and uncommon classes. Code will be available at
https://github.com/Whileherham/IMR-HSNet.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition