Recent advances in pixel-level tasks (e.g., segmentation) illustrate the benefit of long-range interactions between aggregated region-based representations that can enhance local features. However, such pixel-to-region associations and the resulting representation, which often take the form of attention, cannot model the underlying semantic structure of the scene (e.g., individual objects and, by extension, their interactions). In this work, we take a step toward addressing this limitation. Specifically, we propose an architecture where we learn to project image features into latent region representations and perform global reasoning across them, using a transformer, to produce contextualized and scene-consistent representations that are then fused with original pixel-level features. Our design enables the latent regions to represent semantically meaningful concepts, by ensuring that activated regions are spatially disjoint and unions of such regions correspond to connected object segments. The resulting semantic global reasoning (SGR) is end-to-end trainable and can be combined with any semantic segmentation framework and backbone. Combining SGR with DeepLabV3 results in a semantic segmentation performance that is competitive to the state-of-the-art, while resulting in more semantically interpretable and diverse region representations, which we show can effectively transfer to detection and instance segmentation. Further, we propose a new metric that allows us to measure the semantics of representations at both the object class and instance level.

现代方法通常将语义分割标记为每个像素分类任务，而使用替代掩码分类处理实例级分割。我们的主要洞察力：掩码分类是足够的一般，可以使用完全相同的模型，丢失和培训过程来解决语义和实例级分段任务。在此观察之后，我们提出了一个简单的掩模分类模型，该模型预测了一组二进制掩码，每个模型与单个全局类标签预测相关联。总的来说，所提出的基于掩模分类的方法简化了语义和Panoptic分割任务的有效方法的景观，并显示出优异的经验结果。特别是，当类的数量大时，我们观察到掩码形成器优于每个像素分类基线。我们的面具基于分类的方法优于当前最先进的语义（ADE20K上的55.6 miou）和Panoptic Seation（Coco）模型的Panoptic Seationation（52.7 PQ）。

图像分割是关于使用不同语义的分组像素，例如类别或实例成员身份，其中每个语义选择定义任务。虽然只有每个任务的语义不同，但目前的研究侧重于为每项任务设计专业架构。我们提出了蒙面关注掩模变压器（Mask2Former），这是一种能够寻址任何图像分段任务（Panoptic，实例或语义）的新架构。其关键部件包括屏蔽注意，通过限制预测掩模区域内的横向提取局部特征。除了将研究工作减少三次之外，它还优于四个流行的数据集中的最佳专业架构。最值得注意的是，Mask2Former为Panoptic semonation（Coco 57.8 PQ）设置了新的最先进的，实例分段（Coco上50.1 AP）和语义分割（ADE20K上的57.7 miou）。

视觉表示学习是解决各种视力问题的关键。依靠开创性的网格结构先验，卷积神经网络（CNN）已成为大多数深视觉模型的事实上的标准架构。例如，经典的语义分割方法通常采用带有编码器编码器体系结构的完全横向卷积网络（FCN）。编码器逐渐减少了空间分辨率，并通过更大的接受场来学习更多抽象的视觉概念。由于上下文建模对于分割至关重要，因此最新的努力一直集中在通过扩张（即极度）卷积或插入注意力模块来增加接受场。但是，基于FCN的体系结构保持不变。在本文中，我们旨在通过将视觉表示学习作为序列到序列预测任务来提供替代观点。具体而言，我们部署纯变压器以将图像编码为一系列贴片，而无需局部卷积和分辨率减少。通过在变压器的每一层中建立的全球环境，可以学习更强大的视觉表示形式，以更好地解决视力任务。特别是，我们的细分模型（称为分割变压器（SETR））在ADE20K上擅长（50.28％MIOU，这是提交当天测试排行榜中的第一个位置），Pascal环境（55.83％MIOU），并在CityScapes上达到竞争成果。此外，我们制定了一个分层局部全球（HLG）变压器的家族，其特征是窗户内的本地关注和跨窗户的全球性专注于层次结构和金字塔架构。广泛的实验表明，我们的方法在各种视觉识别任务（例如，图像分类，对象检测和实例分割和语义分割）上实现了吸引力的性能。

无监督语义分割的任务旨在将像素聚集到语义上有意义的群体中。具体而言，分配给同一群集的像素应共享高级语义属性，例如其对象或零件类别。本文介绍了MaskDistill：基于三个关键想法的无监督语义细分的新颖框架。首先，我们提倡一种数据驱动的策略，以生成对象掩模作为语义分割事先的像素分组。这种方法省略了手工制作的先验，这些先验通常是为特定场景组成而设计的，并限制了竞争框架的适用性。其次，MaskDistill将对象掩盖簇簇以获取伪地真相，以训练初始对象分割模型。第三，我们利用此模型过滤出低质量的对象掩模。这种策略减轻了我们像素分组中的噪声，并导致了我们用来训练最终分割模型的干净掩模集合。通过组合这些组件，我们可以大大优于以前的作品，用于对Pascal（+11％MIOU）和COCO（+4％Mask AP50）进行无监督的语义分割。有趣的是，与现有方法相反，我们的框架不在低级图像提示上，也不限于以对象为中心的数据集。代码和型号将提供。

In this paper we present Mask DINO, a unified object detection and segmentation framework. Mask DINO extends DINO (DETR with Improved Denoising Anchor Boxes) by adding a mask prediction branch which supports all image segmentation tasks (instance, panoptic, and semantic). It makes use of the query embeddings from DINO to dot-product a high-resolution pixel embedding map to predict a set of binary masks. Some key components in DINO are extended for segmentation through a shared architecture and training process. Mask DINO is simple, efficient, and scalable, and it can benefit from joint large-scale detection and segmentation datasets. Our experiments show that Mask DINO significantly outperforms all existing specialized segmentation methods, both on a ResNet-50 backbone and a pre-trained model with SwinL backbone. Notably, Mask DINO establishes the best results to date on instance segmentation (54.5 AP on COCO), panoptic segmentation (59.4 PQ on COCO), and semantic segmentation (60.8 mIoU on ADE20K) among models under one billion parameters. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/IDEACVR/MaskDINO}.

In this paper, we study the context aggregation problem in semantic segmentation. Motivated by that the label of a pixel is the category of the object that the pixel belongs to, we present a simple yet effective approach, object-contextual representations, characterizing a pixel by exploiting the representation of the corresponding object class. First, we learn object regions under the supervision of the ground-truth segmentation. Second, we compute the object region representation by aggregating the representations of the pixels lying in the object region. Last, we compute the relation between each pixel and each object region, and augment the representation of each pixel with the object-contextual representation which is a weighted aggregation of all the object region representations. We empirically demonstrate our method achieves competitive performance on various benchmarks: Cityscapes, ADE20K, LIP, PASCAL-Context and COCO-Stuff. Our submission "HRNet + OCR + SegFix" achieves the 1 st place on the Cityscapes leaderboard by the ECCV 2020 submission deadline. Code is available at: https://git.io/openseg and https://git.io/HRNet.OCR.

Panoptic Part Segmentation (PPS) unifies panoptic segmentation and part segmentation into one task. Previous works utilize separated approaches to handle thing, stuff, and part predictions without shared computation and task association. We aim to unify these tasks at the architectural level, designing the first end-to-end unified framework named Panoptic-PartFormer. Moreover, we find the previous metric PartPQ biases to PQ. To handle both issues, we make the following contributions: Firstly, we design a meta-architecture that decouples part feature and things/stuff feature, respectively. We model things, stuff, and parts as object queries and directly learn to optimize all three forms of prediction as a unified mask prediction and classification problem. We term our model as Panoptic-PartFormer. Secondly, we propose a new metric Part-Whole Quality (PWQ) to better measure such task from both pixel-region and part-whole perspectives. It can also decouple the error for part segmentation and panoptic segmentation. Thirdly, inspired by Mask2Former, based on our meta-architecture, we propose Panoptic-PartFormer++ and design a new part-whole cross attention scheme to further boost part segmentation qualities. We design a new part-whole interaction method using masked cross attention. Finally, the extensive ablation studies and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of both Panoptic-PartFormer and Panoptic-PartFormer++. Compared with previous Panoptic-PartFormer, our Panoptic-PartFormer++ achieves 2% PartPQ and 3% PWQ improvements on the Cityscapes PPS dataset and 5% PartPQ on the Pascal Context PPS dataset. On both datasets, Panoptic-PartFormer++ achieves new state-of-the-art results with a significant cost drop of 70% on GFlops and 50% on parameters. Our models can serve as a strong baseline and aid future research in PPS. Code will be available.

Universal Image Segmentation is not a new concept. Past attempts to unify image segmentation in the last decades include scene parsing, panoptic segmentation, and, more recently, new panoptic architectures. However, such panoptic architectures do not truly unify image segmentation because they need to be trained individually on the semantic, instance, or panoptic segmentation to achieve the best performance. Ideally, a truly universal framework should be trained only once and achieve SOTA performance across all three image segmentation tasks. To that end, we propose OneFormer, a universal image segmentation framework that unifies segmentation with a multi-task train-once design. We first propose a task-conditioned joint training strategy that enables training on ground truths of each domain (semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation) within a single multi-task training process. Secondly, we introduce a task token to condition our model on the task at hand, making our model task-dynamic to support multi-task training and inference. Thirdly, we propose using a query-text contrastive loss during training to establish better inter-task and inter-class distinctions. Notably, our single OneFormer model outperforms specialized Mask2Former models across all three segmentation tasks on ADE20k, CityScapes, and COCO, despite the latter being trained on each of the three tasks individually with three times the resources. With new ConvNeXt and DiNAT backbones, we observe even more performance improvement. We believe OneFormer is a significant step towards making image segmentation more universal and accessible. To support further research, we open-source our code and models at https://github.com/SHI-Labs/OneFormer

We present a new, embarrassingly simple approach to instance segmentation. Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that have made instance segmentation much more challenging. In order to predict a mask for each instance, mainstream approaches either follow the "detect-then-segment" strategy (e.g., Mask R-CNN), or predict embedding vectors first then use clustering techniques to group pixels into individual instances. We view the task of instance segmentation from a completely new perspective by introducing the notion of "instance categories", which assigns categories to each pixel within an instance according to the instance's location and size, thus nicely converting instance segmentation into a single-shot classification-solvable problem. We demonstrate a much simpler and flexible instance segmentation framework with strong performance, achieving on par accuracy with Mask R-CNN and outperforming recent single-shot instance segmenters in accuracy. We hope that this simple and strong framework can serve as a baseline for many instance-level recognition tasks besides instance segmentation. Code is available at https://git.io/AdelaiDet

建模长期依赖关系对于理解计算机视觉中的任务至关重要。尽管卷积神经网络（CNN）在许多视觉任务中都表现出色，但由于它们通常由当地核层组成，因此它们仍然限制捕获长期结构化关系。但是，完全连接的图（例如变形金刚中的自我发项操作）对这种建模是有益的，但是，其计算开销非常有用。在本文中，我们提出了一个动态图形消息传递网络，与建模完全连接的图形相比，该网络大大降低了计算复杂性。这是通过在图表中自适应采样节点（以输入为条件）来实现的，以传递消息传递。基于采样节点，我们动态预测节点依赖性滤波器权重和亲和力矩阵，以在它们之间传播信息。这种公式使我们能够设计一个自我发挥的模块，更重要的是，我们将基于变压器的新骨干网络用于图像分类预处理，并用于解决各种下游任务（对象检测，实例和语义细分）。使用此模型，我们在四个不同任务上的强，最先进的基线方面显示出显着改进。我们的方法还优于完全连接的图形，同时使用较少的浮点操作和参数。代码和型号将在https://github.com/fudan-zvg/dgmn2上公开提供。

在图像变压器网络的编码器部分中的FineTuning佩带的骨干网一直是语义分段任务的传统方法。然而，这种方法揭示了图像在编码阶段提供的语义上下文。本文认为将图像的语义信息纳入预磨料的基于分层变换器的骨干，而FineTuning可显着提高性能。为实现这一目标，我们提出了一个简单且有效的框架，在语义关注操作的帮助下将语义信息包含在编码器中。此外，我们在训练期间使用轻量级语义解码器，为每个阶段提供监督对中间语义的先前地图。我们的实验表明，结合语义前导者增强了所建立的分层编码器的性能，随着絮凝物的数量略有增加。我们通过将Sromask集成到Swin-Cransformer的每个变体中提供了经验证明，因为我们的编码器与不同的解码器配对。我们的框架在CudeScapes数据集上实现了ADE20K数据集的新型58.22％的MIOU，并在Miou指标中提高了超过3％的内容。代码和检查点在https://github.com/picsart-ai-research/semask-egation上公开使用。

最近建议的MaskFormer \ Cite {MaskFormer}对语义分割的任务提供了刷新的透视图：它从流行的像素级分类范例转移到蒙版级分类方法。实质上，它生成对应于类别段的配对概率和掩码，并在推理的分割映射期间结合它们。因此，分割质量依赖于查询如何捕获类别的语义信息及其空间位置。在我们的研究中，我们发现单尺度特征顶部的每个掩模分类解码器不足以提取可靠的概率或掩模。对于挖掘功能金字塔的丰富语义信息，我们提出了一个基于变压器的金字塔融合变压器（PFT），用于多尺度特征顶部的每个掩模方法语义分段。为了有效地利用不同分辨率的图像特征而不会产生过多的计算开销，PFT使用多尺度变压器解码器，具有跨尺度间间的关注来交换互补信息。广泛的实验评估和消融展示了我们框架的功效。特别是，与屏蔽Former相比，我们通过Reset-101c实现了3.2 miou改进了Reset-101c。此外，在ADE20K验证集上，我们的Swin-B骨架的结果与单尺度和多尺寸推断的屏蔽骨架中的较大的Swin-L骨架相匹配，分别实现54.1 miou和55.3 miou。使用Swin-L骨干，我们在ADE20K验证集中实现了56.0 Miou单尺度结果和57.2多尺度结果，从而获得数据集的最先进的性能。

We explore the capability of plain Vision Transformers (ViTs) for semantic segmentation and propose the SegVit. Previous ViT-based segmentation networks usually learn a pixel-level representation from the output of the ViT. Differently, we make use of the fundamental component -- attention mechanism, to generate masks for semantic segmentation. Specifically, we propose the Attention-to-Mask (ATM) module, in which the similarity maps between a set of learnable class tokens and the spatial feature maps are transferred to the segmentation masks. Experiments show that our proposed SegVit using the ATM module outperforms its counterparts using the plain ViT backbone on the ADE20K dataset and achieves new state-of-the-art performance on COCO-Stuff-10K and PASCAL-Context datasets. Furthermore, to reduce the computational cost of the ViT backbone, we propose query-based down-sampling (QD) and query-based up-sampling (QU) to build a Shrunk structure. With the proposed Shrunk structure, the model can save up to $40\%$ computations while maintaining competitive performance.

尽管有不同的相关框架，已经通过不同和专门的框架解决了语义，实例和Panoptic分段。本文为这些基本相似的任务提供了统一，简单，有效的框架。该框架，名为K-Net，段段由一组被学习内核持续一致，其中每个内核负责为潜在实例或填充类生成掩码。要解决区分各种实例的困难，我们提出了一个内核更新策略，使每个内核动态和条件在输入图像中的有意义的组上。 K-NET可以以结尾的方式培训，具有二分匹配，其培训和推论是自然的NMS和无框。没有钟声和口哨，K-Net超越了先前发表的全面的全面的单一模型，在ADE20K Val上的MS Coco Test-Dev分割和语义分割上分别与55.2％PQ和54.3％Miou分裂。其实例分割性能也与MS COCO上的级联掩模R-CNN相同，具有60％-90％的推理速度。代码和模型将在https://github.com/zwwwayne/k-net/发布。

两阶段和基于查询的实例分段方法取得了显着的结果。然而，他们的分段面具仍然非常粗糙。在本文中，我们呈现了用于高质量高效的实例分割的掩模转发器。我们的掩模转发器代替常规密集的张量，而不是在常规密集的张量上进行分解，并表示作为Quadtree的图像区域。我们基于变换器的方法仅处理检测到的错误易于树节点，并并行自我纠正其错误。虽然这些稀疏的像素仅构成总数的小比例，但它们对最终掩模质量至关重要。这允许掩模转换器以低计算成本预测高精度的实例掩模。广泛的实验表明，掩模转发器在三个流行的基准上优于当前实例分段方法，显着改善了COCO和BDD100K上的大型+3.0掩模AP的+3.0掩模AP的大余量和CityScapes上的+6.6边界AP。我们的代码和培训的型号将在http://vis.xyz/pub/transfiner提供。

In this paper, we propose a unified panoptic segmentation network (UPSNet) for tackling the newly proposed panoptic segmentation task. On top of a single backbone residual network, we first design a deformable convolution based semantic segmentation head and a Mask R-CNN style instance segmentation head which solve these two subtasks simultaneously. More importantly, we introduce a parameter-free panoptic head which solves the panoptic segmentation via pixel-wise classification. It first leverages the logits from the previous two heads and then innovatively expands the representation for enabling prediction of an extra unknown class which helps better resolve the conflicts between semantic and instance segmentation. Additionally, it handles the challenge caused by the varying number of instances and permits back propagation to the bottom modules in an end-to-end manner. Extensive experimental results on Cityscapes, COCO and our internal dataset demonstrate that our UPSNet achieves stateof-the-art performance with much faster inference. Code has been made available at: https://github.com/ uber-research/UPSNet. * Equal contribution.† This work was done when Hengshuang Zhao was an intern at Uber ATG.

全景部分分割（PPS）旨在将泛型分割和部分分割统一为一个任务。先前的工作主要利用分离的方法来处理事物，物品和部分预测，而无需执行任何共享的计算和任务关联。在这项工作中，我们旨在将这些任务统一在架构层面上，设计第一个名为Panoptic-Partformer的端到端统一方法。特别是，由于视觉变压器的最新进展，我们将事物，内容和部分建模为对象查询，并直接学会优化所有三个预测作为统一掩码的预测和分类问题。我们设计了一个脱钩的解码器，以分别生成零件功能和事物/东西功能。然后，我们建议利用所有查询和相应的特征共同执行推理。最终掩码可以通过查询和相应特征之间的内部产品获得。广泛的消融研究和分析证明了我们框架的有效性。我们的全景局势群体在CityScapes PPS和Pascal Context PPS数据集上实现了新的最新结果，至少有70％的GFLOPS和50％的参数降低。特别是，在Pascal上下文PPS数据集上采用SWIN Transformer后，我们可以通过RESNET50骨干链和10％的改进获得3.4％的相对改进。据我们所知，我们是第一个通过\ textit {统一和端到端变压器模型来解决PPS问题的人。鉴于其有效性和概念上的简单性，我们希望我们的全景贡献者能够充当良好的基准，并帮助未来的PPS统一研究。我们的代码和型号可在https://github.com/lxtgh/panoptic-partformer上找到。

In this work, we introduce Panoptic-DeepLab, a simple, strong, and fast system for panoptic segmentation, aiming to establish a solid baseline for bottom-up methods that can achieve comparable performance of two-stage methods while yielding fast inference speed. In particular, Panoptic-DeepLab adopts the dual-ASPP and dual-decoder structures specific to semantic, and instance segmentation, respectively. The semantic segmentation branch is the same as the typical design of any semantic segmentation model (e.g., DeepLab), while the instance segmentation branch is class-agnostic, involving a simple instance center regression. As a result, our single Panoptic-DeepLab simultaneously ranks first at all three Cityscapes benchmarks, setting the new state-of-art of 84.2% mIoU, 39.0% AP, and 65.5% PQ on test set. Additionally, equipped with MobileNetV3, Panoptic-DeepLab runs nearly in real-time with a single 1025 × 2049 image (15.8 frames per second), while achieving a competitive performance on Cityscapes (54.1 PQ% on test set). On Mapillary Vistas test set, our ensemble of six models attains 42.7% PQ, outperforming the challenge winner in 2018 by a healthy margin of 1.5%. Finally, our Panoptic-DeepLab also performs on par with several topdown approaches on the challenging COCO dataset. For the first time, we demonstrate a bottom-up approach could deliver state-of-the-art results on panoptic segmentation.

自我监督学习中的最新作品通过以对象为中心或基于区域的对应目标进行预处理，在场景级密集的预测任务上表现出了强劲的表现。在本文中，我们介绍了区域对象表示学习（R2O），该学习统一了基于区域的和以对象为中心的预处理。 R2O通过训练编码器以动态完善基于区域的段为中心的蒙版，然后共同学习掩模中内容的表示形式。 R2O使用“区域改进模块”将使用区域级先验生成的小图像区域分组为较大的区域，这些区域倾向于通过聚类区域级特征对应对应对象。随着训练的进展，R2O遵循了一个区域到对象的课程，该课程鼓励学习区域级的早期特征并逐渐进步以训练以对象为中心的表示。使用R2O的表示形式导致了Pascal VOC（+0.7 MIOU）和CityScapes（+0.4 MIOU）的语义细分表现最先进的表现，并在MS Coco（+0.3 Mask AP）上进行了实例细分。此外，在对Imagenet进行了预审进之后，R2O预处理的模型能够超过Caltech-UCSD Birds 200-2011数据集（+2.9 MIOU）的无监督物体细分中现有的最新对象细分。我们在https://github.com/kkallidromitis/r2o上提供了这项工作的代码/模型。