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Hauptverfasser: Schmidt, Tanner, Newcombe, Richard
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11131
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author Schmidt, Tanner
Newcombe, Richard
author_facet Schmidt, Tanner
Newcombe, Richard
contents This paper presents Segment This Thing (STT), a new efficient image segmentation model designed to produce a single segment given a single point prompt. Instead of following prior work and increasing efficiency by decreasing model size, we gain efficiency by foveating input images. Given an image and a point prompt, we extract a crop centered on the prompt and apply a novel variable-resolution patch tokenization in which patches are downsampled at a rate that increases with increased distance from the prompt. This approach yields far fewer image tokens than uniform patch tokenization. As a result we can drastically reduce the computational cost of segmentation without reducing model size. Furthermore, the foveation focuses the model on the region of interest, a potentially useful inductive bias. We show that our Segment This Thing model is more efficient than prior work while remaining competitive on segmentation benchmarks. It can easily run at interactive frame rates on consumer hardware and is thus a promising tool for augmented reality or robotics applications.
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spellingShingle Segment This Thing: Foveated Tokenization for Efficient Point-Prompted Segmentation
Schmidt, Tanner
Newcombe, Richard
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
This paper presents Segment This Thing (STT), a new efficient image segmentation model designed to produce a single segment given a single point prompt. Instead of following prior work and increasing efficiency by decreasing model size, we gain efficiency by foveating input images. Given an image and a point prompt, we extract a crop centered on the prompt and apply a novel variable-resolution patch tokenization in which patches are downsampled at a rate that increases with increased distance from the prompt. This approach yields far fewer image tokens than uniform patch tokenization. As a result we can drastically reduce the computational cost of segmentation without reducing model size. Furthermore, the foveation focuses the model on the region of interest, a potentially useful inductive bias. We show that our Segment This Thing model is more efficient than prior work while remaining competitive on segmentation benchmarks. It can easily run at interactive frame rates on consumer hardware and is thus a promising tool for augmented reality or robotics applications.
title Segment This Thing: Foveated Tokenization for Efficient Point-Prompted Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11131