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New TMI method boosts instance segmentation with hybrid T2I and I2I data synthesis

Researchers have developed a novel hybrid pipeline called TMI that combines text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-image (I2I) techniques to improve instance segmentation, particularly for rare categories. The TMI system leverages T2I for broad diversity and a teacher-student scheme for label reliability, while introducing VRAIN, an I2I editor designed to insert high-confidence instances into existing scenes. This approach enhances semantic coherence and visual naturalness, leading to significant performance gains on the LVIS benchmark, with notable improvements in both overall and rare-class average precision. AI

IMPACT This method could improve the performance of AI models on tasks with imbalanced datasets, particularly in real-world applications requiring fine-grained object recognition.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper detailing a new method for data synthesis in computer vision.

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New TMI method boosts instance segmentation with hybrid T2I and I2I data synthesis

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hyeonseop Song, Seokhun Choi, Hoseok Do ·

    TMI: Text-to-Image Meets Image-to-Image for Complementary Data Synthesis to Boost Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation

    arXiv:2607.08201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-vocabulary instance segmentation is constrained by long-tailed category distributions and fine-grained inter-class ambiguity. While data synthesis offers a promising alternative, current paradigms have complementary limitati…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hoseok Do ·

    TMI: Text-to-Image Meets Image-to-Image for Complementary Data Synthesis to Boost Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation

    Large-vocabulary instance segmentation is constrained by long-tailed category distributions and fine-grained inter-class ambiguity. While data synthesis offers a promising alternative, current paradigms have complementary limitations: text-to-image (T2I) methods inherit noisy pse…