@inproceedings{
huang2024renovating,
title={Renovating Names in Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmarks},
author={Haiwen Huang and Songyou Peng and Dan Zhang and Andreas Geiger},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=Uw2eJOI822}
}
Names are essential to both human cognition and vision-language models. Open-vocabulary models utilize class names as text prompts to generalize to categories unseen during training. However, the precision of these names is often overlooked in existing datasets. In this paper, we address this underexplored problem by presenting a framework for "renovating" names in open-vocabulary segmentation benchmarks (RENOVATE). Our framework features a renaming model that enhances the quality of names for each visual segment. Through experiments, we demonstrate that our renovated names help train stronger open-vocabulary models with up to 15% relative improvement and significantly enhance training efficiency with improved data quality. We also show that our renovated names improve evaluation by better measuring misclassification and enabling fine-grained model analysis. We provide our code and relabelings for several popular segmentation datasets to the research community on our project page: https://andrehuang.github.io/renovate.
Renovating Names in Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmarks
Haiwen Huang Songyou Peng Dan Zhang Andreas Geiger