Empowering DINO Representations for Underwater Instance Segmentation via Aligner and Prompter

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Main Authors: Chen, Zhiyang, Zhang, Chen, Fang, Hao, Cong, Runmin
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author Chen, Zhiyang
Zhang, Chen
Fang, Hao
Cong, Runmin
author_facet Chen, Zhiyang
Zhang, Chen
Fang, Hao
Cong, Runmin
contents Underwater instance segmentation (UIS), integrating pixel-level understanding and instance-level discrimination, is a pivotal technology in marine resource exploration and ecological protection. In recent years, large-scale pretrained visual foundation models, exemplified by DINO, have advanced rapidly and demonstrated remarkable performance on complex downstream tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that DINO can serve as an effective feature learner for UIS, and we introduce DiveSeg, a novel framework built upon two insightful components: (1) The AquaStyle Aligner, designed to embed underwater color style features into the DINO fine-tuning process, facilitating better adaptation to the underwater domain. (2) The ObjectPrior Prompter, which incorporates binary segmentation-based prompts to deliver object-level priors, provides essential guidance for instance segmentation task that requires both object- and instance-level reasoning. We conduct thorough experiments on the popular UIIS and USIS10K datasets, and the results show that DiveSeg achieves the state-of-the-art performance. Code: https://github.com/ettof/Diveseg.
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spellingShingle Empowering DINO Representations for Underwater Instance Segmentation via Aligner and Prompter
Chen, Zhiyang
Zhang, Chen
Fang, Hao
Cong, Runmin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Underwater instance segmentation (UIS), integrating pixel-level understanding and instance-level discrimination, is a pivotal technology in marine resource exploration and ecological protection. In recent years, large-scale pretrained visual foundation models, exemplified by DINO, have advanced rapidly and demonstrated remarkable performance on complex downstream tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that DINO can serve as an effective feature learner for UIS, and we introduce DiveSeg, a novel framework built upon two insightful components: (1) The AquaStyle Aligner, designed to embed underwater color style features into the DINO fine-tuning process, facilitating better adaptation to the underwater domain. (2) The ObjectPrior Prompter, which incorporates binary segmentation-based prompts to deliver object-level priors, provides essential guidance for instance segmentation task that requires both object- and instance-level reasoning. We conduct thorough experiments on the popular UIIS and USIS10K datasets, and the results show that DiveSeg achieves the state-of-the-art performance. Code: https://github.com/ettof/Diveseg.
title Empowering DINO Representations for Underwater Instance Segmentation via Aligner and Prompter
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08334