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PSALM: Pixelwise SegmentAtion with Large Multi-Modal Model

21 Mar 2024arXiv:2403.14598archive 2025-07-28

Zheng Zhang, Yeyao Ma, Enming Zhang, Xiang Bai

PSALM is a powerful extension of the Large Multi-modal Model (LMM) to address the segmentation task challenges. To overcome the limitation of the LMM being limited to textual output, PSALM incorporates a mask decoder and a well-designed input schema to handle a variety of segmentation tasks. This schema includes images, task instructions, conditional prompts, and mask tokens, which enable the model to generate and classify segmentation masks effectively. The flexible design of PSALM supports joint training across multiple datasets and tasks, leading to improved performance and task generalization. PSALM achieves superior results on several benchmarks, such as RefCOCO/RefCOCO+/RefCOCOg, COCO Panoptic Segmentation, and COCO-Interactive, and further exhibits zero-shot capabilities on unseen tasks, such as open-vocabulary segmentation, generalized referring expression segmentation and video object segmentation, making a significant step towards a GPT moment in computer vision. Through extensive experiments, PSALM demonstrates its potential to transform the domain of image segmentation, leveraging the robust visual understanding capabilities of LMMs as seen in natural language processing. Code and models are available at https://github.com/zamling/PSALM.

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DecoderGeneralized Referring Expression SegmentationImage SegmentationPanoptic SegmentationReferring ExpressionReferring Expression SegmentationSegmentationSemantic SegmentationVideo Object SegmentationVideo Semantic Segmentation

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Referring Expression Segmentation RefCoCo val PSALM Overall IoU 83.6 #3 of 37 Archive leaderboard report

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AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBPECosine AnnealingDense ConnectionsDiscriminative Fine-TuningDropoutGPTLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Cosine AnnealingMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxWeight Decay

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