Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation

Authors: Yunheng Li, Zhong-Yu Li, Quansheng Zeng, Qibin Hou*, Ming-Ming Cheng.

[paper] [github] [pretrained models] [Param. & Flops & FPS] [visualization]

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Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, have been successfully applied to zero-shot semantic segmentation. Existing CLIP-based approaches primarily utilize visual features from the last layer to align with text embeddings, while they neglect the crucial information in intermediate layers that contain rich object details. However, we find that directly aggregating the multi-level visual features weakens the zero-shot ability for novel classes. The large differences between the visual features from different layers make these features hard to align well with the text embeddings. We resolve this problem by introducing a series of independent decoders to align the multi-level visual features with the text embeddings in a cascaded way, forming a novel but simple framework named Cascade-CLIP. Our Cascade-CLIP is flexible and can be easily applied to existing zero-shot semantic segmentation methods. Experimental results show that our simple Cascade-CLIP achieves superior zero-shot performance on segmentation benchmarks, like COCO-Stuff, Pascal-VOC, and Pascal-Context.

Installation:

See installation instructions.

Downloading and preprocessing Dataset:

According to MMseg: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmsegmentation/blob/master/docs/en/dataset_prepare.md

datasets
└── coco_stuff164k
│   ├── images
│   │   ├── train2017
│   │   └── val2017
│   ├── annotations
│   │   ├── train2017
│   │   └── val2017
└── VOCdevkit
    ├── VOC2010
    │   ├── ImageSets
    │   ├── Annotations
    │   ├── JPEGImages  
    │   ├── SegmentationClass    
    │   └── SegmentationClassContext    
    └── VOC2012
        ├── ImageSets
        ├── Annotations
        ├── JPEGImages  
        ├── SegmentationClass    
        └── SegmentationClassAug    

Preparing Pretrained CLIP model:

Download the pretrained model here: clip_pretrain/ViT-B-16.pt https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/clip/models/5806e77cd80f8b59890b7e101eabd078d9fb84e6937f9e85e4ecb61988df416f/ViT-B-16.pt

Pretrained models:

All experiments using a machine with 4 NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPUs. (~20 hours for COCO Inductive)

Dataset	Setting	mIoU(S)	mIoU(U)	Traing time (hours)	Model Zoo
PASCAL VOC 2012	Inductive	92.5 ($\pm$ 1.0)	83.0 ($\pm$ 1.0)	~3	[BaiduNetdisk]
PASCAL VOC 2012	Transductive	93.6 ($\pm$ 0.5)	93.2 ($\pm$ 0.5)	~1.5	[BaiduNetdisk]
PASCAL Context	Inductive	55.9 ($\pm$ 0.5)	47.2 ($\pm$ 1.0)	~8	[BaiduNetdisk]
PASCAL Context	Transductive	56.4 ($\pm$ 0.5)	55.0 ($\pm$ 1.0)	~4	[BaiduNetdisk]
COCO Stuff 164K	Inductive	41.2 ($\pm$ 0.5)	43.4 ($\pm$ 1.0)	~20	[BaiduNetdisk]
COCO Stuff 164K	Transductive	41.7 ($\pm$ 0.5)	62.5 ($\pm$ 1.0)	~10	[BaiduNetdisk]

Note that here we report the averaged results of several training models and provide one of them.

Training (Inductive):

bash dist_train.sh configs/coco_171/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_80k_12_100_multi.py 4 output/coco_171/inductive

bash dist_train.sh configs/context_59/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_40k_12_10.py 4 output/context_59/inductive

bash dist_train.sh configs/voc_20/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_20k_12_10.py 4 output/voc_20/inductive

Training (Transductive):

bash dist_train.sh configs/coco_171/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_40k_12_100_multi_st.py 4 output/coco_171/transductive --load-from=output/coco_171/inductive/iter_40000.pth

bash dist_train.sh configs/context_59/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_20k_12_10_st.py 4 output/context_59/transductive --load-from=output/context_59/inductive/iter_20000.pth

bash dist_train.sh configs/voc_20/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_10k_12_10_st.py 4 output/voc_20/transductive --load-from=output/voc_20/inductive/iter_10000.pth

Inference:

python test.py config/xxx/xxx.py ./output/model.pth --eval=mIoU

For example:

python test.py configs/coco_171/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_80k_12_100_multi.py  output/coco_171/inductive/latest.pth --eval=mIoU

Cross Dataset Inference:

python test.py configs/cross_dataset/coco-to-voc.py output/coco_171/inductive/iter_80000.pth --eval=mIoU

python test.py ./configs/cross_dataset/coco-to-context.py output/coco_171/inductive/iter_80000.pth --eval=mIoU

Efficiency

Requires fvcore to be installed

pip install fvcore

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python get_flops.py configs/coco_171/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_80k_12_100_multi.py 

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python get_fps.py configs/coco_171/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_80k_12_100_multi.py checkpoints/coco_171/coco_model.pth 

Visualization

python test.py configs/coco_171/vpt_seg_zero_vit-b_512x512_40k_12_100_multi_st.py   output/coco_171/transductive/latest.pth --show-dir=visualization/coco_171/transductive --eval=mIoU

Citation:

If you find this project useful, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{licascade,
  title={Cascade-CLIP: Cascaded Vision-Language Embeddings Alignment for Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation},
  author={Li, Yunheng and Li, Zhong-Yu and Zeng, Quan-Sheng and Hou, Qibin and Cheng, Ming-Ming},
  booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year={2024}
}

Related Assets & Acknowledgement

Our work is closely related to the following assets that inspire our implementation. We gratefully thank the authors.

• CLIP: https://github.com/openai/CLIP
• ZegCLIP: https://github.com/ZiqinZhou66/ZegCLIP

License

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International for Non-commercial use only. Any commercial use should get formal permission first.