HSA让模型像人一样分层次理解场景,从整体到具体实例一次搞定。
HSA: Hierarchical Slot Attention for Multi-granularity Scene-Decomposition

- 用层级注意力机制,分三步拆解场景:整体、类别、个体实例
- 仅用10%标注数据,就在COCO上提升41.5(整体)至10.4(实例)
- 适合做多粒度图像理解的开发者,尤其关注少样本与结构化表示
槽注意力是强大的对象中心学习框架,通过迭代竞争注意力将视觉场景分解为潜在槽。然而现有方法存在两大局限:在单一粒度下以扁平方式分解场景,且依赖外观而非语义。人类理解场景依赖语义层次:区分前景与背景、识别物体类别、辨识个体实例。这些语义层次无法无监督生成,因类别名称为人造概念。本文提出层级槽注意力(HSA),从单一模型中学习多粒度语义场景分解,包含三个层次:整体(前景/背景)、语义(物体类别)、全景(个体实例)。仅使用10%标注数据,并结合层级对齐损失,实现三者联合学习。进一步引入分组纯度与包含性衡量表示空间中层次结构是否被编码。在COCO和PASCAL VOC上的实验表明,HSA相比最强的扁平基线,在COCO上整体、语义、全景层面分别提升+41.5、+14.6、+10.4 ARI,PASCAL VOC上增益更大,且仅需一个模型而非三个。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Slot attention is a powerful framework for object-centric learning, decomposing visual scenes into latent slots through iterative competitive attention. However, existing methods share two critical limitations: they decompose scenes into a flat set of slots at a single granularity, and this decomposition is based on appearance rather than semantics. Yet humans understand scenes through semantic hierarchies: separating foreground from background, recognizing object categories, and identifying individual instances. Crucially, such semantic hierarchies cannot emerge without supervision, because category names are human constructs, not visual patterns. We propose Hierarchical Slot Attention (HSA), which learns multi-granularity semantic scene decomposition from a single model. HSA decomposes scenes at three levels: holistic (foreground/background), semantic (object categories), and panoptic (individual instances). Using only 10\% labeled data, combined with hierarchical alignment loss, HSA learns all three levels jointly. We further introduce grouping purity and containment to measure whether the hierarchy is encoded in representation space, not just output masks. Experiments on COCO and PASCAL VOC demonstrate that HSA outperforms the strongest flat baseline by up to \textbf{$+$41.5} ARI at holistic, \textbf{$+$14.6} at semantic, and \textbf{$+$10.4} at panoptic level on COCO, with even larger gains on Pascal VOC, while requiring a single model instead of three. Code will be made available upon acceptance.
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