PolyFormer: Referring Image Segmentation as Sequential Polygon Generation (CVPR 2023)

by Jiang Liu*, Hui Ding*, Zhaowei Cai, Yuting Zhang, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Vijay Mahadevan, R. Manmatha.

:notes: Introduction

PolyFormer is a unified model for referring image segmentation (polygon vertex sequence) and referring expression comprehension (bounding box corner points). The polygons are converted to segmentation masks in the end.

Contributions:

State-of-the-art results on referring image segmentation and referring expression comprehension on 6 datasets;
A unified framework for referring image segmentation (RIS) and referring expression comprehension (REC) by formulating them as a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) prediction problem;
A regression-based decoder for accurate coordinate prediction, which outputs continuous 2D coordinates directly without quantization error..

Getting Started

Installation

conda create -n polyformer python=3.7.4
conda activate polyformer
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: if you are getting import errors from fairseq, try the following:

python -m pip install pip==21.2.4
pip uninstall fairseq
pip install -r requirements.txt

Datasets

Prepare Pretraining Data

Create the dataset folders

mkdir datasets
mkdir datasets/images
mkdir datasets/annotations

Download the 2014 Train images [83K/13GB] from COCO, original Flickr30K images, ReferItGame images, and Visual Genome images, and extract them to datasets/images.
Download the annotation file for pretraining datasets instances.json provided by SeqTR and store it in datasets/annotations. The workspace directory should be organized like this:

PolyFormer/
├── datasets/
│   ├── images
│   │   ├── flickr30k/*.jpg
│   │   ├── mscoco/
│   │   │   └── train2014/*.jpg
│   │   ├── saiaprtc12/*.jpg
│   │   └── visual-genome/*.jpg
│   └── annotations
│       └── instances.json
└── ...

Generate the tsv files for pretraining

python data/create_pretraining_data.py

Prepare Finetuning Data

Follow the instructions in the ./refer directory to set up subdirectories and download annotations. This directory is based on the refer API.
Generate the tsv files for finetuning

python data/create_finetuning_data.py

Pretraining

Create the checkpoints folder

mkdir weights

Download pretrain weights of Swin-base, Swin-large, BERT-base and put the weight files in ./pretrained_weights. These weights are needed for training to initialize the model.
Run the pretraining scripts for model pretraining on the referring expression comprehension task:

cd run_scripts/pretrain
bash pretrain_polyformer_b.sh  # for pretraining PolyFormer-B model
bash pretrain_polyformer_l.sh  # for pretraining PolyFormer-L model

Finetuning

Run the finetuning scripts for model pretraining on the referring image segmentation and referring expression comprehension tasks:

cd run_scripts/finetune
bash train_polyformer_b.sh  # for finetuning PolyFormer-B model
bash train_polyformer_l.sh  # for finetuning PolyFormer-L model

Please make sure to link the pretrain weight paths (Line 20) in the finetuning scripts to the best pretraining checkpoints.

Evaluation

Run the evaluation scripts for evaluating on the referring image segmentation and referring expression comprehension tasks:

cd run_scripts/evaluation

# for evaluating PolyFormer-B model
bash evaluate_polyformer_b_refcoco.sh 
bash evaluate_polyformer_b_refcoco+.sh 
bash evaluate_polyformer_b_refcocog.sh 

# for evaluating PolyFormer-L model
bash evaluate_polyformer_l_refcoco.sh 
bash evaluate_polyformer_l_refcoco+.sh 
bash evaluate_polyformer_l_refcocog.sh

Model Zoo

Download the model weights to ./weights if you want to use our trained models for finetuning and evaluation.

	Refcoco val			Refcoco testA			Refcoco testB
Model	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]
PolyFormer-B	74.82	75.96	89.73	76.64	77.09	91.73	71.06	73.22	86.03
PolyFormer-L	75.96	76.94	90.38	78.29	78.49	92.89	73.25	74.83	87.16

test_demo.py	Refcoco val			Refcoco testA			Refcoco testB
Model	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]
PolyFormer-B	67.64	70.65	83.73	72.89	74.51	88.60	59.33	64.64	76.38
PolyFormer-L	69.33	72.15	84.98	74.56	75.71	89.77	61.87	66.73	77.97

	Refcocog val				Refcocog test
Model	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]	oIoU	mIoU	[email protected]
PolyFormer-B	67.76	69.36	84.46	69.05	69.88	84.96
PolyFormer-L	69.20	71.15	85.83	70.19	71.17	85.91

Pretrained weights:
- PolyFormer-B
- PolyFormer-L

Acknowlegement

This codebase is developed based on OFA. Other related codebases include:

Citation

Please cite our paper if you find this codebase helpful :)

@inproceedings{liu2023polyformer,
  title={PolyFormer: Referring Image Segmentation as Sequential Polygon Generation},
  author={Liu, Jiang and Ding, Hui and Cai, Zhaowei and Zhang, Yuting and Satzoda, Ravi Kumar and Mahadevan, Vijay and Manmatha, R},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2023}
}

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.