Summary of Allspark: Reborn Labeled Features From Unlabeled in Transformer For Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation, by Haonan Wang et al.
AllSpark: Reborn Labeled Features from Unlabeled in Transformer for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
by Haonan Wang, Qixiang Zhang, Yi Li, Xiaomeng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed AllSpark method improves semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) by leveraging limited labeled data and larger amounts of unlabeled data. Unlike current state-of-the-art methods, which separate the training flows for labeled and unlabeled data, AllSpark reborns labeled features from unlabeled ones using a channel-wise cross-attention mechanism. Additionally, it introduces a Semantic Memory and Channel Semantic Grouping strategy to ensure that unlabeled features adequately represent labeled features. The proposed method outperforms existing methods across all evaluation protocols on Pascal, Cityscapes, and COCO benchmarks without requiring complex training pipeline designs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary AllSpark is a new way to do semi-supervised semantic segmentation. It’s like a superpower for computers that helps them learn from both labeled and unlabeled data. This makes it easier to train models without needing as much manual labeling. The method uses something called channel-wise cross-attention to help the model understand how labeled features are related to unlabeled ones. It also has two other important parts: Semantic Memory and Channel Semantic Grouping. These help the model make better use of the unlabeled data. AllSpark outperforms other methods on three different benchmarks, making it a powerful tool for computer vision tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cross attention » Semantic segmentation » Semi supervised
