Fast and Accurate Unknown Object Instance Segmentation through Error-Informed Refinement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16132v2
• Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:37:59 GMT
• Title: Fast and Accurate Unknown Object Instance Segmentation through Error-Informed Refinement
• Authors: Seunghyeok Back, Sangbeom Lee, Kangmin Kim, Joosoon Lee, Sungho Shin, Jemo Maeng, Kyoobin Lee,
• Abstract summary: INSTA-BEER is a fast and accurate model-agnostic refinement method that enhances the performance of unknown object instance segmentation. We introduce the quad-metric boundary error, which quantifies pixel-wise true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives at the boundaries of object instances. In comprehensive evaluations conducted on three widely used benchmark datasets, INSTA-BEER outperformed state-of-the-art models in both accuracy and inference time.
• Score: 7.297340899783621
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate perception of unknown objects is essential for autonomous robots, particularly when manipulating novel items in unstructured environments. However, existing unknown object instance segmentation (UOIS) methods often have over-segmentation and under-segmentation problems, resulting in inaccurate instance boundaries and failures in subsequent robotic tasks such as grasping and placement. To address this challenge, this article introduces INSTA-BEER, a fast and accurate model-agnostic refinement method that enhances the UOIS performance. The model adopts an error-informed refinement approach, which first predicts pixel-wise errors in the initial segmentation and then refines the segmentation guided by these error estimates. We introduce the quad-metric boundary error, which quantifies pixel-wise true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives at the boundaries of object instances, effectively capturing both fine-grained and instance-level segmentation errors. Additionally, the Error Guidance Fusion (EGF) module explicitly integrates error information into the refinement process, further improving segmentation quality. In comprehensive evaluations conducted on three widely used benchmark datasets, INSTA-BEER outperformed state-of-the-art models in both accuracy and inference time. Moreover, a real-world robotic experiment demonstrated the practical applicability of our method in improving the performance of target object grasping tasks in cluttered environments.

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