用语言线索生成注意力查询,让模型更准定位图像目标。
Referencing Where to Focus: Improving VisualGrounding with Referential Query

- 用语言信息生成先验查询,引导解码器聚焦目标区域。
- 在5个基准上超越现有方法,最高提升4.2%准确率。
- 可无缝接入CLIP,无需微调主干网络,适合迁移应用。
视觉定位旨在给定自然语言描述时定位图像中的目标对象。基于DETR的视觉定位方法因能直接预测目标坐标而受到关注,无需依赖预生成候选框或预定义锚点。然而,现有研究多聚焦于强化多模态解码器,通常通过随机初始化或使用语言嵌入生成可学习查询,这种原始方法在解码初期缺乏目标相关信息,增加学习难度。此外,它们仅使用最深层图像特征,忽视了其他层级特征的重要性。为此,我们提出RefFormer:一个包含查询适配模块的新方法,可无缝集成到CLIP中,生成与语义相关的参考查询,为解码器提供先验上下文。通过引入参考查询,有效降低解码器学习难度,精准聚焦目标。同时,该模块可作为适配器,保留CLIP丰富知识,无需微调主干网络参数。大量实验表明,该方法在五个视觉定位基准上均优于当前最优方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the coordinates of the target object without relying on additional efforts, such as pre-generated proposal candidates or pre-defined anchor boxes. However, existing research primarily focuses on designing stronger multi-modal decoder, which typically generates learnable queries by random initialization or by using linguistic embeddings. This vanilla query generation approach inevitably increases the learning difficulty for the model, as it does not involve any target-related information at the beginning of decoding. Furthermore, they only use the deepest image feature during the query learning process, overlooking the importance of features from other levels. To address these issues, we propose a novel approach, called RefFormer. It consists of the query adaption module that can be seamlessly integrated into CLIP and generate the referential query to provide the prior context for decoder, along with a task-specific decoder. By incorporating the referential query into the decoder, we can effectively mitigate the learning difficulty of the decoder, and accurately concentrate on the target object. Additionally, our proposed query adaption module can also act as an adapter, preserving the rich knowledge within CLIP without the need to tune the parameters of the backbone network. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches on five visual grounding benchmarks.
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