通过迭代注意力与关键词强调,提升零样本图像分割对位置关系的敏感度。
IteRPrimE: Zero-shot Referring Image Segmentation with Iterative Grad-CAM Refinement and Primary Word Emphasis
- 用Grad-CAM迭代优化关注区域,增强对目标位置的感知。
- 在RefCOCO/+/g和PhraseCut上优于现有方法,尤其在跨领域场景表现突出。
- 适合需要高精度定位且无标注数据的视觉语言任务研究者。
零样本指代图像分割(RIS)在无需训练和微调的情况下识别与指代表达最匹配的图像实例掩码,显著降低人工标注成本。尽管已有不错成果,基于CLIP的模型存在关键缺陷:难以准确区分物体间的相对空间关系。这是因为模型会生成图像中所有可能的掩码并评估其与文本表达的相似性,导致对文本中的直接位置线索敏感度下降。此外,多数方法对核心词与其上下文关系的处理能力弱,易引发混淆,影响目标区域识别准确率。为此,我们提出IteRPrimE(迭代梯度类激活映射精炼与主词强调),利用视觉-语言预训练模型的Grad-CAM生成显著性热图进行图文匹配。引入迭代式Grad-CAM精炼策略,逐步强化模型对目标区域的关注,克服位置不敏感问题,实现自校正效果。同时设计主词强调模块,帮助模型理解复杂语义关系,提升对目标对象的注意力。在RefCOCO/+/g和PhraseCut基准上的大量实验表明,IteRPrimE超越此前最先进的零样本方法,尤其在跨领域场景下表现优异。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Zero-shot Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) identifies the instance mask that best aligns with a specified referring expression without training and fine-tuning, significantly reducing the labor-intensive annotation process. Despite achieving commendable results, previous CLIP-based models have a critical drawback: the models exhibit a notable reduction in their capacity to discern relative spatial relationships of objects. This is because they generate all possible masks on an image and evaluate each masked region for similarity to the given expression, often resulting in decreased sensitivity to direct positional clues in text inputs. Moreover, most methods have weak abilities to manage relationships between primary words and their contexts, causing confusion and reduced accuracy in identifying the correct target region. To address these challenges, we propose IteRPrimE (Iterative Grad-CAM Refinement and Primary word Emphasis), which leverages a saliency heatmap through Grad-CAM from a Vision-Language Pre-trained (VLP) model for image-text matching. An iterative Grad-CAM refinement strategy is introduced to progressively enhance the model's focus on the target region and overcome positional insensitivity, creating a self-correcting effect. Additionally, we design the Primary Word Emphasis module to help the model handle complex semantic relations, enhancing its ability to attend to the intended object. Extensive experiments conducted on the RefCOCO/+/g, and PhraseCut benchmarks demonstrate that IteRPrimE outperforms previous state-of-the-art zero-shot methods, particularly excelling in out-of-domain scenarios.
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