Incorporating Feature Pyramid Tokenization and Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14145v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:43:21 GMT
• Title: Incorporating Feature Pyramid Tokenization and Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Jianyu Zhang, Li Zhang, Shijian Li,
• Abstract summary: We study a united perceptual and semantic token compression for all granular understanding. We propose Feature Pyramid Tokenization (PAT) to cluster and represent multi-resolution feature by learnable codebooks. Our experiments show that PAT enhances the semantic intuition of VLM feature pyramid.
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• Abstract: The visual understanding are often approached from 3 granular levels: image, patch and pixel. Visual Tokenization, trained by self-supervised reconstructive learning, compresses visual data by codebook in patch-level with marginal information loss, but the visual tokens does not have semantic meaning. Open Vocabulary semantic segmentation benefits from the evolving Vision-Language models (VLMs) with strong image zero-shot capability, but transferring image-level to pixel-level understanding remains an imminent challenge. In this paper, we treat segmentation as tokenizing pixels and study a united perceptual and semantic token compression for all granular understanding and consequently facilitate open vocabulary semantic segmentation. Referring to the cognitive process of pretrained VLM where the low-level features are progressively composed to high-level semantics, we propose Feature Pyramid Tokenization (PAT) to cluster and represent multi-resolution feature by learnable codebooks and then decode them by joint learning pixel reconstruction and semantic segmentation. We design loosely coupled pixel and semantic learning branches. The pixel branch simulates bottom-up composition and top-down visualization of codebook tokens, while the semantic branch collectively fuse hierarchical codebooks as auxiliary segmentation guidance. Our experiments show that PAT enhances the semantic intuition of VLM feature pyramid, improves performance over the baseline segmentation model and achieves competitive performance on open vocabulary semantic segmentation benchmark. Our model is parameter-efficient for VLM integration and flexible for the independent tokenization. We hope to give inspiration not only on improving segmentation but also on semantic visual token utilization.

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