SimMAT: Exploring Transferability from Vision Foundation Models to Any Image Modality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08083v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:38:21 GMT
• Title: SimMAT: Exploring Transferability from Vision Foundation Models to Any Image Modality
• Authors: Chenyang Lei, Liyi Chen, Jun Cen, Xiao Chen, Zhen Lei, Felix Heide, Ziwei Liu, Qifeng Chen, Zhaoxiang Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Foundation models like ChatGPT and Sora that are trained on a huge scale of data have made a revolutionary social impact. It is extremely challenging for sensors in many different fields to collect similar scales of natural images to train strong foundation models. This work presents a simple and effective framework SimMAT to study an open problem: the transferability from vision foundation models trained on natural RGB images to other image modalities of different physical properties.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Foundation models like ChatGPT and Sora that are trained on a huge scale of data have made a revolutionary social impact. However, it is extremely challenging for sensors in many different fields to collect similar scales of natural images to train strong foundation models. To this end, this work presents a simple and effective framework SimMAT to study an open problem: the transferability from vision foundation models trained on natural RGB images to other image modalities of different physical properties (e.g., polarization). SimMAT consists of a modality-agnostic transfer layer (MAT) and a pretrained foundation model. We apply SimMAT to a representative vision foundation model Segment Anything Model (SAM) to support any evaluated new image modality. Given the absence of relevant benchmarks, we construct a new benchmark to evaluate the transfer learning performance. Our experiments confirm the intriguing potential of transferring vision foundation models in enhancing other sensors' performance. Specifically, SimMAT can improve the segmentation performance (mIoU) from 22.15% to 53.88% on average for evaluated modalities and consistently outperforms other baselines. We hope that SimMAT can raise awareness of cross-modal transfer learning and benefit various fields for better results with vision foundation models.

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