超越文本:面向基于 CLIP 的弱监督语义分割的概率模型视觉描述组装
Beyond Text: Visual Description Assembly by Probabilistic Model for CLIP-based Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
用概率模型把 CLIP 视觉特征映射到结构化潜空间、动态组装实例级视觉描述原型来替代静态文本原型查询,可直接迁移到任何依赖 CLIP 文本-图像对齐生成 CAM 的弱监督定位任务。
原文依据 directly construct instance-specific visual description prototype as query
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由模型翻译 · 术语统一 · 请对照原文核对关键结论对比语言-图像预训练(CLIP)通过从文本-图像对齐中生成类激活图(CAM),为弱监督语义分割(WSSS)提供了一种新范式。现有方法主要依赖手工模板或由大语言模型生成的通用属性描述来构建文本原型,以查询视觉特征。然而,这些策略面临两大局限:CLIP 固有的模态鸿沟使文本原型无法与视觉特征实现紧密对齐;其静态文本原型也无法自适应地响应具有多样视觉属性的目标实例。为应对这些挑战,本文的核心思路是直接构建实例特定的视觉描述原型作为查询,从而绕过次优的静态文本描述优化。为此,本文提出视觉描述组装(VDA)框架。该框架采用概率模型将复杂的 CLIP 视觉特征映射到结构化潜空间。该潜空间使我们能够显式地解耦并聚合多样的视觉属性,进而将其动态组装为实例特定的视觉原型。此外,为增强该原型的鲁棒性,本文自适应地将语义稳定的文本原型融入其中,作为最终查询以生成更优的 CAM。实验结果表明,本方法优于现有基线,在 WSSS 基准上取得最优性能。
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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) offers a new paradigm for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) by generating Class Activation Maps (CAMs) from text-image alignment. Existing methods primarily rely on hand-crafted templates or general attribute descriptions generated by a large language model to construct text prototypes for querying visual features. However, these strategies faces two major limitations: the inherent modality gap in CLIP prevents text prototypes achieving tight alignment with visual features; and their static text prototypes cannot adaptively respond to target instances that exhibit diverse visual attributes. To address these challenges, our key insight is to directly construct instance-specific visual description prototype as query, thereby bypassing the suboptimal static text description optimization. To this end, we propose the Visual Description Assembly (VDA) framework. It employs a probabilistic model to map complex CLIP visual features into a structured latent space. This latent space allows us to explicitly disentangle and aggregate varied visual attributes, and then dynamically assemble them into instance-specific visual prototypes. Furthermore, to enhance the robustness of this prototype, we adaptively incorporate the semantically stable text prototype into it as the final query for generating superior CAMs. Experimental results show our method outperforms existing baselines, achieving state-of-the-art performance on WSSS benchmarks.