ContextSeg: Sketch Semantic Segmentation by Querying the Context with Attention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16682v2
• Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:54:18 GMT
• Title: ContextSeg: Sketch Semantic Segmentation by Querying the Context with Attention
• Authors: Jiawei Wang, Changjian Li,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to tackling this problem with two stages. In the first stage, to better encode the shape and positional information of strokes, we propose to predict an extra dense distance field in an autoencoder network. In the second stage, we treat an entire stroke as a single entity and label a group of strokes within the same semantic part using an auto-regressive Transformer with the default attention mechanism.
• Score: 7.783971241874388
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to tackling this problem with two stages. In the first stage, to better encode the shape and positional information of strokes, we propose to predict an extra dense distance field in an autoencoder network to reinforce structural information learning. In the second stage, we treat an entire stroke as a single entity and label a group of strokes within the same semantic part using an auto-regressive Transformer with the default attention mechanism. By group-based labeling, our method can fully leverage the context information when making decisions for the remaining groups of strokes. Our method achieves the best segmentation accuracy compared with state-of-the-art approaches on two representative datasets and has been extensively evaluated demonstrating its superior performance. Additionally, we offer insights into solving part imbalance in training data and the preliminary experiment on cross-category training, which can inspire future research in this field.

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