Abstract
Continual semantic segmentation (CSS) has risen as a popular field, which aims to acquire new skills constantly without forgetting past knowledge catastrophically. In CSS, we identify that there is a severe imbalance between new classes and old classes, leading to the classifier weight toward new classes. In this paper, we deal with the continual semantic segmentation problem from the class imbalance perspective via mask-based class rebalancing, avoiding the model suffering from catastrophic forgetting. More specifically, the mask-based class rebalancing depends on a mask to combine resampling with reweighting ingenuously, which mitigates the classifier bias toward new classes. Besides, we also propose a frequency knowledge distillation, leveraging multiple frequency components information to maintain the feature representation space for old classes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with an extensive evaluation of the Pascal-VOC 2012 and ADE20K datasets, significantly outperforming the state-of-the-art method.