CLIP as RNN: Segment Countless Visual Concepts without Training Endeavor
CoRR(2023)
摘要
Existing open-vocabulary image segmentation methods require a fine-tuning
step on mask annotations and/or image-text datasets. Mask labels are
labor-intensive, which limits the number of categories in segmentation
datasets. As a result, the open-vocabulary capacity of pre-trained VLMs is
severely reduced after fine-tuning. However, without fine-tuning, VLMs trained
under weak image-text supervision tend to make suboptimal mask predictions when
there are text queries referring to non-existing concepts in the image. To
alleviate these issues, we introduce a novel recurrent framework that
progressively filters out irrelevant texts and enhances mask quality without
training efforts. The recurrent unit is a two-stage segmenter built upon a VLM
with frozen weights. Thus, our model retains the VLM's broad vocabulary space
and strengthens its segmentation capability. Experimental results show that our
method outperforms not only the training-free counterparts, but also those
fine-tuned with millions of additional data samples, and sets new
state-of-the-art records for both zero-shot semantic and referring image
segmentation tasks. Specifically, we improve the current record by 28.8, 16.0,
and 6.9 mIoU on Pascal VOC, COCO Object, and Pascal Context.
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