对象剪切已成为有效生成大量标记的训练数据的一种有希望的方法。它涉及将前景对象掩盖在背景图像上。背景图像与对象一致时，为培训对象识别模型提供了有用的上下文信息。尽管该方法可以轻松地生成大型标记的数据，但寻找下游任务的一致上下文图像仍然是一个难以捉摸的问题。在这项工作中，我们为自动上下文图像生成的新范式提出了一个新的范式。我们方法的核心是利用上下文和语言驱动图像生成之间的相互作用。通过在代表上下文的一小部分图像上应用图像字幕方法来提供上下文的语言描述。然后，这些语言描述用于使用基于语言的DALL-E图像生成框架来生成各种上下文图像集。然后将它们与对象合成，以提供分类器的增强培训集。我们在四个对象检测数据集上证明了方法比先前的上下文图像生成方法的优势。此外，我们还强调了数据生成方法对分布和零摄像数据生成方案的组成性质。

We propose EM-PASTE: an Expectation Maximization(EM) guided Cut-Paste compositional dataset augmentation approach for weakly-supervised instance segmentation using only image-level supervision. The proposed method consists of three main components. The first component generates high-quality foreground object masks. To this end, an EM-like approach is proposed that iteratively refines an initial set of object mask proposals generated by a generic region proposal method. Next, in the second component, high-quality context-aware background images are generated using a text-to-image compositional synthesis method like DALL-E. Finally, the third component creates a large-scale pseudo-labeled instance segmentation training dataset by compositing the foreground object masks onto the original and generated background images. The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art weakly-supervised instance segmentation results on both the PASCAL VOC 2012 and MS COCO datasets by using only image-level, weak label information. In particular, it outperforms the best baseline by +7.4 and +2.8 mAP0.50 on PASCAL and COCO, respectively. Further, the method provides a new solution to the long-tail weakly-supervised instance segmentation problem (when many classes may only have few training samples), by selectively augmenting under-represented classes.

Copy-Paste is a simple and effective data augmentation strategy for instance segmentation. By randomly pasting object instances onto new background images, it creates new training data for free and significantly boosts the segmentation performance, especially for rare object categories. Although diverse, high-quality object instances used in Copy-Paste result in more performance gain, previous works utilize object instances either from human-annotated instance segmentation datasets or rendered from 3D object models, and both approaches are too expensive to scale up to obtain good diversity. In this paper, we revisit Copy-Paste at scale with the power of newly emerged zero-shot recognition models (e.g., CLIP) and text2image models (e.g., StableDiffusion). We demonstrate for the first time that using a text2image model to generate images or zero-shot recognition model to filter noisily crawled images for different object categories is a feasible way to make Copy-Paste truly scalable. To make such success happen, we design a data acquisition and processing framework, dubbed "X-Paste", upon which a systematic study is conducted. On the LVIS dataset, X-Paste provides impressive improvements over the strong baseline CenterNet2 with Swin-L as the backbone. Specifically, it archives +2.6 box AP and +2.1 mask AP gains on all classes and even more significant gains with +6.8 box AP +6.5 mask AP on long-tail classes.

尽管对象检测方面取得了很大进展，但由于实例级边界盒注释所需的巨大人性化，大多数现有方法都仅限于一小一少量的对象类别。为了减轻问题，最近的开放词汇和零射击检测方法试图检测培训期间未见的对象类别。但是，这些方法仍然依赖于一组基类上手动提供的边界盒注释。我们提出了一个开放的词汇检测框架，可以在没有手动提供边界盒注释的情况下培训。我们的方法通过利用预先训练的视觉语言模型的本地化能力来实现这一目标，并产生可直接用于训练对象探测器的伪边界盒标签。 Coco，Pascal VOC，Objects365和LVIS的实验结果证明了我们方法的有效性。具体而言，我们的方法优于使用人类注释的边界箱训练的最先进（SOTA），即使我们的培训源未配备手动边界盒标签，也可以在COCO新型类别上用3％AP培训。在利用手动边界箱标签作为基线时，我们的方法主要超过8％的AP。

Recent large-scale image generation models such as Stable Diffusion have exhibited an impressive ability to generate fairly realistic images starting from a very simple text prompt. Could such models render real images obsolete for training image prediction models? In this paper, we answer part of this provocative question by questioning the need for real images when training models for ImageNet classification. More precisely, provided only with the class names that have been used to build the dataset, we explore the ability of Stable Diffusion to generate synthetic clones of ImageNet and measure how useful they are for training classification models from scratch. We show that with minimal and class-agnostic prompt engineering those ImageNet clones we denote as ImageNet-SD are able to close a large part of the gap between models produced by synthetic images and models trained with real images for the several standard classification benchmarks that we consider in this study. More importantly, we show that models trained on synthetic images exhibit strong generalization properties and perform on par with models trained on real data.

语义细分是一项关键的计算机视觉任务，该任务已经积极研究了几十年。近年来，监督方法已达到前所未有的准确性，但是每个新的类别类别都需要许多像素级注释，这是非常耗时和昂贵的。另外，当前语义分割网络处理大量类别的能力是有限的。这意味着包含稀有类别类别的图像不太可能通过当前方法进行很好的分割。在本文中，我们提出了一种为每个对象创建语义细分掩码的新方法，而无需训练分割网络或查看任何分割掩模。我们的方法用作图像中存在的类类别的图像级标签;它们可以自动或手动获得。我们利用Vision语言嵌入模型（特别是Clip）来使用模型解释性方法为每个类创建粗略分割映射。我们使用测试时间增强技术来优化地图。此阶段的输出提供像素级伪标签，而不是监督方法所需的手动像素级标签。鉴于伪标签，我们利用单图像分割技术来获得高质量的输出分割掩模。我们的方法是定量和定性地示出的，以优于使用类似的监督数量的方法。我们的结果对于包含罕见类别的图像特别显着。

Object compositing based on 2D images is a challenging problem since it typically involves multiple processing stages such as color harmonization, geometry correction and shadow generation to generate realistic results. Furthermore, annotating training data pairs for compositing requires substantial manual effort from professionals, and is hardly scalable. Thus, with the recent advances in generative models, in this work, we propose a self-supervised framework for object compositing by leveraging the power of conditional diffusion models. Our framework can hollistically address the object compositing task in a unified model, transforming the viewpoint, geometry, color and shadow of the generated object while requiring no manual labeling. To preserve the input object's characteristics, we introduce a content adaptor that helps to maintain categorical semantics and object appearance. A data augmentation method is further adopted to improve the fidelity of the generator. Our method outperforms relevant baselines in both realism and faithfulness of the synthesized result images in a user study on various real-world images.

数据增强是改善深神经网络概括的必不可少的技术。大多数现有的图像域增强剂要么依赖几何和结构变换，要么应用不同种类的光度扭曲。在本文中，我们提出了一种有效的技术，可以通过将上下文有意义的知识注入场景中。我们通过语言接地（Semaug）进行对象检测的语义上有意义的图像增强方法首先计算出可以将其放置在图像中相关位置的语义上适当的新对象（问题和位置）。然后，它将这些对象嵌入其相关目标位置，从而促进对象实例分布的多样性。我们的方法允许介绍培训集中可能不存在的新对象实例和类别。此外，它不需要培训上下文网络的额外开销，因此可以轻松地将其添加到现有架构中。我们全面的评估集表明，所提出的方法在改善概括方面非常有效，而开销可以忽略不计。特别是，对于广泛的模型体系结构，我们的方法分别在Pascal VOC和COCO数据集上实现了约2-4％和〜1-2％的MAP改进。

Neural image classifiers are known to undergo severe performance degradation when exposed to input that exhibits covariate-shift with respect to the training distribution. Successful hand-crafted augmentation pipelines aim at either approximating the expected test domain conditions or to perturb the features that are specific to the training environment. The development of effective pipelines is typically cumbersome, and produce transformations whose impact on the classifier performance are hard to understand and control. In this paper, we show that recent Text-to-Image (T2I) generators' ability to simulate image interventions via natural-language prompts can be leveraged to train more robust models, offering a more interpretable and controllable alternative to traditional augmentation methods. We find that a variety of prompting mechanisms are effective for producing synthetic training data sufficient to achieve state-of-the-art performance in widely-adopted domain-generalization benchmarks and reduce classifiers' dependency on spurious features. Our work suggests that further progress in T2I generation and a tighter integration with other research fields may represent a significant step towards the development of more robust machine learning systems.

Generic image inpainting aims to complete a corrupted image by borrowing surrounding information, which barely generates novel content. By contrast, multi-modal inpainting provides more flexible and useful controls on the inpainted content, \eg, a text prompt can be used to describe an object with richer attributes, and a mask can be used to constrain the shape of the inpainted object rather than being only considered as a missing area. We propose a new diffusion-based model named SmartBrush for completing a missing region with an object using both text and shape-guidance. While previous work such as DALLE-2 and Stable Diffusion can do text-guided inapinting they do not support shape guidance and tend to modify background texture surrounding the generated object. Our model incorporates both text and shape guidance with precision control. To preserve the background better, we propose a novel training and sampling strategy by augmenting the diffusion U-net with object-mask prediction. Lastly, we introduce a multi-task training strategy by jointly training inpainting with text-to-image generation to leverage more training data. We conduct extensive experiments showing that our model outperforms all baselines in terms of visual quality, mask controllability, and background preservation.

最近，Vision-Language预训练的零拍图像分类已经表现出令人难以置信的成就，即该模型可以对任意类别进行分类而不看到该类别的其他注释图像。然而，目前尚不清楚如何在更广泛的视觉问题上进行零射识别，例如对象检测和语义分割。在本文中，我们通过在现成的预训练的视觉模型，即剪辑上建立零拍语义分割来定位零拍语义分割。很难因为语义分割和剪辑模型在不同的视觉粒度上执行，该语义分段处理在像素上时，而剪辑在图像上执行。为了解决处理粒度的差异，我们拒绝使用普遍的一级FCN基于FCN的框架，并倡导一个两级语义分割框架，其中第一阶段提取一个完全提取的掩模提案和第二阶段利用基于图像的剪辑模型在第一阶段生成的蒙版图像作物上执行零拍分类。我们的实验结果表明，这种简单的框架通过大型利润率超越了先前的最先进：+29.5 Hiou On Pascal VOC 2012 DataSet，+8.9 Hiou On Coco Stuff DataSet。凭借其简单性和强大的表现，我们希望本框架成为促进未来研究的基准。

文本对图像模型提供了前所未有的自由，可以通过自然语言指导创作。然而，尚不清楚如何行使这种自由以生成特定独特概念，修改其外观或以新角色和新颖场景构成它们的图像。换句话说，我们问：我们如何使用语言指导的模型将猫变成绘画，或者想象基于我们喜欢的玩具的新产品？在这里，我们提出了一种简单的方法，可以允许这种创造性自由。我们仅使用3-5个用户提供的概念（例如对象或样式）的图像，我们学会通过在冷冻文本到图像模型的嵌入空间中通过新的“单词”表示它。这些“单词”可以组成自然语言句子，以直观的方式指导个性化的创作。值得注意的是，我们发现有证据表明单词嵌入足以捕获独特而多样的概念。我们将我们的方法比较了各种基线，并证明它可以更忠实地描绘出一系列应用程序和任务的概念。我们的代码，数据和新单词将在以下网址提供：https：//textual-inversion.github.io

A major goal of multimodal research is to improve machine understanding of images and text. Tasks include image captioning, text-to-image generation, and vision-language representation learning. So far, research has focused on the relationships between images and text. For example, captioning models attempt to understand the semantics of images which are then transformed into text. An important question is: which annotation reflects best a deep understanding of image content? Similarly, given a text, what is the best image that can present the semantics of the text? In this work, we argue that the best text or caption for a given image is the text which would generate the image which is the most similar to that image. Likewise, the best image for a given text is the image that results in the caption which is best aligned with the original text. To this end, we propose a unified framework that includes both a text-to-image generative model and an image-to-text generative model. Extensive experiments validate our approach.

分组和识别是视觉场景理解的重要组成部分，例如，用于对象检测和语义分割。借助端到端的深度学习系统，图像区域的分组通常通过像素级识别标签的自上而下的监督隐式进行。取而代之的是，在本文中，我们建议将分组机制恢复到深层网络中，从而使语义片段仅在文本监督下自动出现。我们提出了一个分层分组视觉变压器（GroupVit），它超出了常规的网格结构表示，并学会了将图像区域分组为逐渐更大的任意形状段。我们通过对比度损失在大规模图像文本数据集上与文本编码器共同训练小组vit。只有文本监督并且没有任何像素级注释，GroupVit就学会了将语义区域分组在一起，并以零拍的方式成功地将语义分割的任务转移到语义分割的任务，即，而没有任何进一步的微调。它在Pascal VOC 2012上获得了52.3％MIOU的零拍摄精度和Pascal上下文数据集中的22.4％MIOU，并竞争性地表现为需要更高水平监督的最先进的转移学习方法。我们在https://github.com/nvlabs/groupvit上开放代码。

培训计算机视觉模型通常需要在各种场景配置和属性集中收集和标记大量图像。这个过程非常耗时，并且要确保捕获的数据分布映射到应用程序方案的目标域，这是一项挑战。最近，综合数据已成为解决这两个问题的一种方式。但是，现有方法要么要求人类专家手动调整每个场景属性，要么使用几乎无法控制的自动方法；这需要渲染大量的随机数据变化，这很慢，对于目标域通常是次优的。我们介绍了第一个完全可区分的合成数据管道，该数据管道使用具有目标应用程序损耗函数的闭环中的神经辐射场（NERF）。我们的方法可以在没有人工的情况下生成数据，以最大程度地提高目标任务的准确性。我们说明了我们方法对合成和现实对象检测任务的有效性。我们还引入了一个新的“ YCB野外”数据集和基准标准，该数据集和基准为对象检测提供了一种在现实世界环境中具有多种姿势的测试方案。

什么构成一个物体？这是计算机愿景中的长期问题。为了实现这一目标，已经开发了许多基于学习的基于学习的方法来得分对象。但是，它们通常不会划过新域和未经看不见的对象。在本文中，我们倡导现有方法缺乏由人类可理解的语义管理的自上而下的监督信号。为了弥合这一差距，我们探索了已经用对齐的图像文本对培训的多模态视觉变压器（MVIT）。我们对各个域和新型对象的广泛实验显示了MVITS的最先进的性能，以使图像中的通用对象本地化。基于这些发现，我们使用多尺度特征处理和可变形的自我关注来开发一种高效且灵活的MVIT架构，可以自适应地生成给定特定语言查询的提议。我们展示了MVIT提案在各种应用中的重要性，包括开放世界对象检测，突出和伪装对象检测，监督和自我监督的检测任务。此外，MVITS提供了具有可理解文本查询的增强的交互性。代码：https://git.io/j1hpy。

利用深度学习的最新进展，文本到图像生成模型目前具有吸引公众关注的优点。其中两个模型Dall-E 2和Imagen已经证明，可以从图像的简单文本描述中生成高度逼真的图像。基于一种称为扩散模型的新型图像生成方法，文本对图像模型可以生产许多不同类型的高分辨率图像，其中人类想象力是唯一的极限。但是，这些模型需要大量的计算资源来训练，并处理从互联网收集的大量数据集。此外，代码库和模型均未发布。因此，它可以防止AI社区尝试这些尖端模型，从而使其结果复制变得复杂，即使不是不可能。在本文中，我们的目标是首先回顾这些模型使用的不同方法和技术，然后提出我们自己的文本模型模型实施。高度基于DALL-E 2，我们引入了一些轻微的修改，以应对所引起的高计算成本。因此，我们有机会进行实验，以了解这些模型的能力，尤其是在低资源制度中。特别是，我们提供了比Dall-e 2的作者（包括消融研究）更深入的分析。此外，扩散模型使用所谓的指导方法来帮助生成过程。我们引入了一种新的指导方法，该方法可以与其他指导方法一起使用，以提高图像质量。最后，我们的模型产生的图像质量相当好，而不必维持最先进的文本对图像模型的重大培训成本。

In this work, we focus on instance-level open vocabulary segmentation, intending to expand a segmenter for instance-wise novel categories without mask annotations. We investigate a simple yet effective framework with the help of image captions, focusing on exploiting thousands of object nouns in captions to discover instances of novel classes. Rather than adopting pretrained caption models or using massive caption datasets with complex pipelines, we propose an end-to-end solution from two aspects: caption grounding and caption generation. In particular, we devise a joint Caption Grounding and Generation (CGG) framework based on a Mask Transformer baseline. The framework has a novel grounding loss that performs explicit and implicit multi-modal feature alignments. We further design a lightweight caption generation head to allow for additional caption supervision. We find that grounding and generation complement each other, significantly enhancing the segmentation performance for novel categories. We conduct extensive experiments on the COCO dataset with two settings: Open Vocabulary Instance Segmentation (OVIS) and Open Set Panoptic Segmentation (OSPS). The results demonstrate the superiority of our CGG framework over previous OVIS methods, achieving a large improvement of 6.8% mAP on novel classes without extra caption data. Our method also achieves over 15% PQ improvements for novel classes on the OSPS benchmark under various settings.

许多开放世界应用程序需要检测新的对象，但最先进的对象检测和实例分段网络在此任务中不屈服。关键问题在于他们假设没有任何注释的地区应被抑制为否定，这教导了将未经讨犯的对象视为背景的模型。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个简单但令人惊讶的强大的数据增强和培训方案，我们呼唤学习来检测每件事（LDET）。为避免抑制隐藏的对象，背景对象可见但未标记，我们粘贴在从原始图像的小区域采样的背景图像上粘贴带有的注释对象。由于仅对这种综合增强的图像培训遭受域名，我们将培训与培训分为两部分：1）培训区域分类和回归头在增强图像上，2）在原始图像上训练掩模头。通过这种方式，模型不学习将隐藏对象作为背景分类，同时概括到真实图像。 LDET导致开放式世界实例分割任务中的许多数据集的重大改进，表现出CoCo上的交叉类别概括的基线，以及对UVO和城市的交叉数据集评估。

Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper, we present a novel method that enables the generation of general foreground-background segmentation models from simple textual descriptions, without requiring segmentation labels. We leverage and explore pre-trained latent diffusion models, to automatically generate weak segmentation masks for concepts and objects. The masks are then used to fine-tune the diffusion model on an inpainting task, which enables fine-grained removal of the object, while at the same time providing a synthetic foreground and background dataset. We demonstrate that using this method beats previous methods in both discriminative and generative performance and closes the gap with fully supervised training while requiring no pixel-wise object labels. We show results on the task of segmenting four different objects (humans, dogs, cars, birds).