Summary of Segment Any Object Model (saom): Real-to-simulation Fine-tuning Strategy For Multi-class Multi-instance Segmentation, by Mariia Khan et al.
Segment Any Object Model (SAOM): Real-to-Simulation Fine-Tuning Strategy for Multi-Class Multi-Instance Segmentation
by Mariia Khan, Yue Qiu, Yuren Cong, Jumana Abu-Khalaf, David Suter, Bodo Rosenhahn
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 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 paper proposes a new approach to multi-class multi-instance segmentation, which involves identifying masks for multiple object classes and instances within an image. The goal is to improve upon the foundational Segment Anything Model (SAM) by developing a novel nearest neighbor assignment method and a Real-to-Simulation fine-tuning strategy. This allows the model to work in the “everything” mode, generating whole object segmentation masks that are crucial for indoor scene understanding in robotics applications. The proposed method, called SAOM, is evaluated on a dataset collected from Ai2Thor simulator, showing significant improvements over SAM in terms of mIoU and mAcc for 54 frequently-seen indoor object classes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about teaching computers to identify multiple objects in an image. It wants to improve the accuracy of this task by using a new approach called SAOM. This method helps the computer generate more accurate masks for each object, which is important for things like robotics and understanding scenes indoors. The researchers tested their method on a special dataset and found that it was much better than the old way (SAM) at getting the job done. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Instance segmentation » Nearest neighbor » Sam » Scene understanding
