Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00670v2
• Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 13:46:15 GMT
• Title: Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Yunheng Li, ZhongYu Li, Quansheng Zeng, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel framework named Cascade-CLIP for zero-shot semantic segmentation. Our framework achieves superior zero-shot performance on segmentation benchmarks like COCO-Stuff, Pascal-VOC, and Pascal-Context.
• Score: 72.47110803885235
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, have been successfully applied to zero-shot semantic segmentation. Existing CLIP-based approaches primarily utilize visual features from the last layer to align with text embeddings, while they neglect the crucial information in intermediate layers that contain rich object details. However, we find that directly aggregating the multi-level visual features weakens the zero-shot ability for novel classes. The large differences between the visual features from different layers make these features hard to align well with the text embeddings. We resolve this problem by introducing a series of independent decoders to align the multi-level visual features with the text embeddings in a cascaded way, forming a novel but simple framework named Cascade-CLIP. Our Cascade-CLIP is flexible and can be easily applied to existing zero-shot semantic segmentation methods. Experimental results show that our simple Cascade-CLIP achieves superior zero-shot performance on segmentation benchmarks, like COCO-Stuff, Pascal-VOC, and Pascal-Context. Our code is available at: https://github.com/HVision-NKU/Cascade-CLIP

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