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To develop a single universal transformer architecture capable of addressing panoptic, instance, and semantic image segmentation without requiring task-specific model designs.

June 1, 2022

Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentation

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BCBowen ChengUniversity of Science and Technology Beijing IMIshan MisraInstitut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique ASAlexander G. SchwingAdobe Systems (United States)

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Benchmarking evaluation demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across universal image segmentation tasks, indicating specialized task-specific models are unnecessary.

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To develop a single universal transformer architecture capable of addressing panoptic, instance, and semantic image segmentation without requiring task-specific model designs.
Engineered Masked-attention Mask Transformer (Mask2Former), which constrains cross-attention calculations exclusively within predicted mask regions to extract localized features.
Evaluated the unified model against existing specialized architectures across four benchmark image segmentation datasets.
Achieved state-of-the-art results on the COCO dataset with 57.8 panoptic quality (PQ) for panoptic segmentation and 50.1 average precision (AP) for instance segmentation.
Set a new state-of-the-art score of 57.7 mean intersection-over-union (mIoU) on the ADE20K semantic segmentation benchmark, consistently outperforming specialized models.

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Cheng et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ee53b9df4132b62f9cb5f https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.00135

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Benchmarking evaluation demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across universal image segmentation tasks, indicating specialized task-specific models are unnecessary.

Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentation

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Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentation

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