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Linguistic Structure Guided Context Modeling for Referring Image Segmentation

  • Tianrui Hui
  • , Si Liu*
  • , Shaofei Huang
  • , Guanbin Li
  • , Sansi Yu
  • , Faxi Zhang
  • , Jizhong Han
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Information Engineering
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Tencent

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Abstract

Referring image segmentation aims to predict the foreground mask of the object referred by a natural language sentence. Multimodal context of the sentence is crucial to distinguish the referent from the background. Existing methods either insufficiently or redundantly model the multimodal context. To tackle this problem, we propose a “gather-propagate-distribute” scheme to model multimodal context by cross-modal interaction and implement this scheme as a novel Linguistic Structure guided Context Modeling (LSCM) module. Our LSCM module builds a Dependency Parsing Tree suppressed Word Graph (DPT-WG) which guides all the words to include valid multimodal context of the sentence while excluding disturbing ones through three steps over the multimodal feature, i.e., gathering, constrained propagation and distributing. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms all the previous state-of-the-arts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2020 - 16th European Conference, 2020, Proceedings
EditorsAndrea Vedaldi, Horst Bischof, Thomas Brox, Jan-Michael Frahm
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages59-75
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030586065
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Aug 202028 Aug 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12355 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period23/08/2028/08/20

Keywords

  • Dependency Parsing Tree
  • Graph propagation
  • Linguistic structure
  • Multimodal context
  • Referring segmentation

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