From Open-Vocabulary to Vocabulary-Free Semantic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11891v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:17:08 GMT
• Title: From Open-Vocabulary to Vocabulary-Free Semantic Segmentation
• Authors: Klara Reichard, Giulia Rizzoli, Stefano Gasperini, Lukas Hoyer, Pietro Zanuttigh, Nassir Navab, Federico Tombari,
• Abstract summary: Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to identify novel object categories beyond their training data. Current approaches still rely on manually specified class names as input, creating an inherent bottleneck in real-world applications. This work proposes a Vocabulary-Free Semantic pipeline, eliminating the need for predefined class vocabularies.
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• Abstract: Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to identify novel object categories beyond their training data. While this flexibility represents a significant advancement, current approaches still rely on manually specified class names as input, creating an inherent bottleneck in real-world applications. This work proposes a Vocabulary-Free Semantic Segmentation pipeline, eliminating the need for predefined class vocabularies. Specifically, we address the chicken-and-egg problem where users need knowledge of all potential objects within a scene to identify them, yet the purpose of segmentation is often to discover these objects. The proposed approach leverages Vision-Language Models to automatically recognize objects and generate appropriate class names, aiming to solve the challenge of class specification and naming quality. Through extensive experiments on several public datasets, we highlight the crucial role of the text encoder in model performance, particularly when the image text classes are paired with generated descriptions. Despite the challenges introduced by the sensitivity of the segmentation text encoder to false negatives within the class tagging process, which adds complexity to the task, we demonstrate that our fully automated pipeline significantly enhances vocabulary-free segmentation accuracy across diverse real-world scenarios.

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