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Decoding before aligning: Scale-Adaptive Early-Decoding Transformer for visual grounding
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Visual grounding, the task of precisely localizing objects within an image as described by natural language expressions, has recently seen significant advancements through the integration of transformer decoders and early-fusion mechanisms. These approaches aim to enhance the decoding of crucial grounding-related semantics and the generation of discriminative representations. However, they display significant limitations, including reduced generalizability due to the need for custom plug-ins, a gap in effectively bridging decoded visual and linguistic features, and difficulties in processing single-scale features within complex, hierarchical scenes. To address these issues, this study introduces the Scale-Adaptive Early-Decoding Transformer (SA-EDTR), a novel approach that combines decoding and early-fusion mechanisms within a single transformer layer. By positioning the decoding stage before the alignment stage, the decoder adaptively generates richer, context- aware representations that guide the aligning module. This design allows SA-EDTR to effectively overcome previous limitations in feature alignment. Additionally, we integrate a Scale-Adaptive Fusion network (SAF) to fuse multi-scale and heterogeneous representations from parallel Early-Decoding Transformer layers, enhancing the capture of spatial, coarse, and fine-grained semantic details. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SAEDTR outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in both REC and RES tasks across various mainstream visual grounding datasets, including RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg-umd, and RefCOCOg-google. The results highlight the architecture's remarkable capability inaccurately localizing objects and interpreting intricate scenes.
Keyword:
Referring expression comprehension
Referring expression segmentation
Visual grounding
Vision-language
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IF:
6.5
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2.5W
被引数:
6.5W
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