COCONut-PanCap: Joint Panoptic Segmentation and Grounded Captions for Fine-Grained Understanding and Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02589v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:59:46 GMT
• Title: COCONut-PanCap: Joint Panoptic Segmentation and Grounded Captions for Fine-Grained Understanding and Generation
• Authors: Xueqing Deng, Qihang Yu, Ali Athar, Chenglin Yang, Linjie Yang, Xiaojie Jin, Xiaohui Shen, Liang-Chieh Chen,
• Abstract summary: COCONut-PanCap dataset incorporates fine-grained, region-level captions grounded in panoptic segmentation masks. COCONut-PanCap supports improved training of vision-language models for image understanding and generative models for text-to-image tasks.
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• Abstract: This paper introduces the COCONut-PanCap dataset, created to enhance panoptic segmentation and grounded image captioning. Building upon the COCO dataset with advanced COCONut panoptic masks, this dataset aims to overcome limitations in existing image-text datasets that often lack detailed, scene-comprehensive descriptions. The COCONut-PanCap dataset incorporates fine-grained, region-level captions grounded in panoptic segmentation masks, ensuring consistency and improving the detail of generated captions. Through human-edited, densely annotated descriptions, COCONut-PanCap supports improved training of vision-language models (VLMs) for image understanding and generative models for text-to-image tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that COCONut-PanCap significantly boosts performance across understanding and generation tasks, offering complementary benefits to large-scale datasets. This dataset sets a new benchmark for evaluating models on joint panoptic segmentation and grounded captioning tasks, addressing the need for high-quality, detailed image-text annotations in multi-modal learning.

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