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HyperSeg: Towards Universal Visual Segmentation with Large Language Model

26 Nov 2024arXiv:2411.17606archive 2025-07-28

Cong Wei, Yujie Zhong, Haoxian Tan, Yong liu, Zheng Zhao, Jie Hu, Yujiu Yang

This paper aims to address universal segmentation for image and video perception with the strong reasoning ability empowered by Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Despite significant progress in current unified segmentation methods, limitations in adaptation to both image and video scenarios, as well as the complex reasoning segmentation, make it difficult for them to handle various challenging instructions and achieve an accurate understanding of fine-grained vision-language correlations. We propose HyperSeg, the first VLLM-based universal segmentation model for pixel-level image and video perception, encompassing generic segmentation tasks and more complex reasoning perception tasks requiring powerful reasoning abilities and world knowledge. Besides, to fully leverage the recognition capabilities of VLLMs and the fine-grained visual information, HyperSeg incorporates hybrid entity recognition and fine-grained visual perceiver modules for various segmentation tasks. Combined with the temporal adapter, HyperSeg achieves a comprehensive understanding of temporal information. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of our insights in resolving universal image and video segmentation tasks, including the more complex reasoning perception tasks. Our code is available.

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Language ModelingLarge Language ModelOpen Vocabulary Semantic SegmentationPanoptic SegmentationReasoning SegmentationReasoning Video Object SegmentationReferring Expression SegmentationReferring Video Object SegmentationSegmentationSemantic SegmentationUniversal SegmentationVideo Object SegmentationWorld Knowledge

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation PASCAL Context-59 HyperSeg mIoU 64.6 #1 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation PascalVOC-20 HyperSeg mIoU 92.1 #12 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Panoptic Segmentation COCO minival HyperSeg (Swin-B) PQ 61.2 #1 of 31 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (val) HyperSeg J&F 1st frame 71.2 #2 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCO testA HyperSeg Overall IoU 85.7 #2 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCO testB HyperSeg Overall IoU 83.4 #1 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCO+ test B HyperSeg Overall IoU 75.2 #2 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCO+ testA HyperSeg Overall IoU 83.5 #1 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCO+ val HyperSeg Overall IoU 79.0 #3 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCOg-test HyperSeg Overall IoU 78.9 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCOCOg-val HyperSeg Overall IoU 79.4 #2 of 23 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Expression Segmentation RefCoCo val HyperSeg Overall IoU 84.8 #2 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Referring Video Object Segmentation Refer-YouTube-VOS HyperSeg J&F 68.5 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation COCO (Common Objects in Context) HyperSeg mIoU 77.2 #1 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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