PixFoundation: Are We Heading in the Right Direction with Pixel-level Vision Foundation Models?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04192v1
• Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:29:50 GMT
• Title: PixFoundation: Are We Heading in the Right Direction with Pixel-level Vision Foundation Models?
• Authors: Mennatullah Siam,
• Abstract summary: Current trend in pixel-level MLLMs is to train with pixel-level grounding supervision on large-scale labelled data. We show that such MLLMs when evaluated on recent vision centric benchmarks, exhibit a weak ability in visual question answering. We propose simple baselines to extract the grounding information that can be plugged into any MLLM, which we call as PixFoundation.
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• Abstract: Multiple works have emerged to push the boundaries on multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) towards pixel-level understanding. Such approaches have shown strong performance on benchmarks for referring expression segmentation and grounded conversation generation. The current trend in pixel-level MLLMs is to train with pixel-level grounding supervision on large-scale labelled data. However, we show that such MLLMs when evaluated on recent challenging vision centric benchmarks, exhibit a weak ability in visual question answering. Surprisingly, some of these methods even downgrade the grounding ability of MLLMs that were never trained with such supervision. In this work, we propose two novel challenging benchmarks and show that MLLMs without pixel-level grounding supervision can outperform the state of the art in such tasks when evaluating both the pixel-level grounding and visual question answering. We propose simple baselines to extract the grounding information that can be plugged into any MLLM, which we call as PixFoundation. More importantly, we study the research question of ``When does grounding emerge in MLLMs that are not trained with pixel-level grounding supervision?'' We show that grounding can coincide with object parts or location/appearance information. Code repository is at https://github.com/MSiam/PixFoundation/.

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