Tuning-Free Universally-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Abstract

This work presents a tuning-free semantic segmentation framework based on classifying SAM masks, which is universally applicable to various types of supervision. Initially, we utilize CLIP’s zero-shot classification ability to generate pseudo-labels or perform open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. However, the misalignment between mask and CLIP text embeddings leads to suboptimal results. To address this issue, we propose discrimination-bias aligned CLIP to closely align mask and text embedding, offering an overhead-free performance gain. We then construct a global-local consistent classifier to classify SAM masks, which reveals the intrinsic structure of high-quality embeddings produced by DBA-CLIP and demonstrates robustness against noisy pseudo-labels. Extensive experiments validate the efficiency and effectiveness of our method, and we achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) or competitive performance across various datasets and supervision types. Our code will be released upon acceptance.

Keywords

• Foundation model
• open-vocabulary semantic segmentation
• semantic segmentation
• semi-supervised semantic segmentation
• vision language model
• weakly supervised semantic segmentation.00