Semantics-Aware Dynamic Localization and Refinement for Referring Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06345v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 08:42:40 GMT
• Title: Semantics-Aware Dynamic Localization and Refinement for Referring Image Segmentation
• Authors: Zhao Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Yansong Tang, Kai Chen, Hengshuang Zhao, Philip H.S. Torr
• Abstract summary: Referring image segments an image from a language expression. We develop an algorithm that shifts from being localization-centric to segmentation-language. Compared to its counterparts, our method is more versatile yet effective.
• Score: 102.25240608024063
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine vision-language features. Despite their complexity, RNN-based methods are subject to specific encoder choices, while attention-based methods offer limited gains. In this work, we introduce a simple yet effective alternative for progressively learning discriminative multi-modal features. The core idea of our approach is to leverage a continuously updated query as the representation of the target object and at each iteration, strengthen multi-modal features strongly correlated to the query while weakening less related ones. As the query is initialized by language features and successively updated by object features, our algorithm gradually shifts from being localization-centric to segmentation-centric. This strategy enables the incremental recovery of missing object parts and/or removal of extraneous parts through iteration. Compared to its counterparts, our method is more versatile$\unicode{x2014}$it can be plugged into prior arts straightforwardly and consistently bring improvements. Experimental results on the challenging datasets of RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, and G-Ref demonstrate its advantage with respect to the state-of-the-art methods.

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