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An Alternative to WSSS? An Empirical Study of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) on Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Problems

Weixuan Sun, Zheyuan Liu, Yanhao Zhang, Yiran Zhong, Nick Barnes

2023-05-02Weakly-Supervised Semantic SegmentationWeakly supervised Semantic SegmentationSemantic Segmentation
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Abstract

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated exceptional performance and versatility, making it a promising tool for various related tasks. In this report, we explore the application of SAM in Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS). Particularly, we adapt SAM as the pseudo-label generation pipeline given only the image-level class labels. While we observed impressive results in most cases, we also identify certain limitations. Our study includes performance evaluations on PASCAL VOC and MS-COCO, where we achieved remarkable improvements over the latest state-of-the-art methods on both datasets. We anticipate that this report encourages further explorations of adopting SAM in WSSS, as well as wider real-world applications.

Results

TaskDatasetMetricValueModel
Semantic SegmentationCOCO 2014 valmIoU55.6WSSS-SAM(DeepLabV2-ResNet101)
Semantic SegmentationPASCAL VOC 2012 valMean IoU77.2WSSS-SAM(ResNet-101, multi-stage)
Semantic SegmentationPASCAL VOC 2012 testMean IoU77.1WSSS-SAM(DeepLabV2-ResNet101)
10-shot image generationCOCO 2014 valmIoU55.6WSSS-SAM(DeepLabV2-ResNet101)
10-shot image generationPASCAL VOC 2012 valMean IoU77.2WSSS-SAM(ResNet-101, multi-stage)
10-shot image generationPASCAL VOC 2012 testMean IoU77.1WSSS-SAM(DeepLabV2-ResNet101)

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