Summary of Talking to Dino: Bridging Self-supervised Vision Backbones with Language For Open-vocabulary Segmentation, by Luca Barsellotti et al.
Talking to DINO: Bridging Self-Supervised Vision Backbones with Language for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
by Luca Barsellotti, Lorenzo Bianchi, Nicola Messina, Fabio Carrara, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Fabrizio Falchi, Rita Cucchiara
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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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 Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) approach, Talk2DINO, combines the strengths of two pre-existing models: CLIP for language understanding and DINOv2 for spatial accuracy. The novel hybrid method aligns textual embeddings from CLIP with patch-level features from DINOv2 using a learned mapping function. This allows for selective alignment of local visual patches with textual embeddings during training. The resulting approach demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on several unsupervised OVS benchmarks, achieving more natural and less noisy segmentations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Talk2DINO is a new way to help computers understand images by combining two types of information: what’s in the picture (from DINOv2) and what it’s about (from CLIP). This helps the computer better identify specific parts of an image, like objects or people. The approach works really well, even without training data, making it useful for a wide range of applications. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Language understanding » Unsupervised
