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Main Authors: Zhao, Ziyu, Li, Xiaoguang, Shi, Linjia, Imanpour, Nasrin, Wang, Song
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11676
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author Zhao, Ziyu
Li, Xiaoguang
Shi, Linjia
Imanpour, Nasrin
Wang, Song
author_facet Zhao, Ziyu
Li, Xiaoguang
Shi, Linjia
Imanpour, Nasrin
Wang, Song
contents Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP but struggle with the inherent domain gap between image and text embeddings, even after extensive alignment during training. Additionally, relying solely on deep text-aligned features limits shallow-level feature guidance, which is crucial for detecting small objects and fine details, ultimately reducing segmentation accuracy. To address these limitations, we propose a dual prompting framework, DPSeg, for this task. Our approach combines dual-prompt cost volume generation, a cost volume-guided decoder, and a semantic-guided prompt refinement strategy that leverages our dual prompting scheme to mitigate alignment issues in visual prompt generation. By incorporating visual embeddings from a visual prompt encoder, our approach reduces the domain gap between text and image embeddings while providing multi-level guidance through shallow features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches on multiple public datasets.
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spellingShingle DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
Zhao, Ziyu
Li, Xiaoguang
Shi, Linjia
Imanpour, Nasrin
Wang, Song
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP but struggle with the inherent domain gap between image and text embeddings, even after extensive alignment during training. Additionally, relying solely on deep text-aligned features limits shallow-level feature guidance, which is crucial for detecting small objects and fine details, ultimately reducing segmentation accuracy. To address these limitations, we propose a dual prompting framework, DPSeg, for this task. Our approach combines dual-prompt cost volume generation, a cost volume-guided decoder, and a semantic-guided prompt refinement strategy that leverages our dual prompting scheme to mitigate alignment issues in visual prompt generation. By incorporating visual embeddings from a visual prompt encoder, our approach reduces the domain gap between text and image embeddings while providing multi-level guidance through shallow features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches on multiple public datasets.
title DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11676