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Contextrast++ improves semantic segmentation with novel contrastive learning

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Researchers have introduced Contextrast++, a novel contrastive learning method designed to enhance semantic segmentation. This approach addresses challenges in capturing both local and global contexts and mitigating issues arising from imbalanced class distributions. Contextrast++ incorporates contextual contrastive learning (CCL) with components like an adaptive fusion module, pixel-to-anchor (PA) loss, and anchor-to-anchor (AA) loss, alongside boundary-aware negative (BANE) sampling. Experiments indicate that Contextrast++ significantly improves semantic segmentation performance without increasing inference computational overhead. AI

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Contextrast++ improves semantic segmentation with novel contrastive learning

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Changki Sung, Hyungtae Lim, Wanhee Kim, Youngwoo Seo, Hyun Myung ·

    Contextrast++: Robust Multi-Scale Contextual Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation

    arXiv:2608.22679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic segmentation has rapidly advanced with deep learning; however, challenges remain in effectively capturing local and global contexts as well as addressing the long-tailed distribution problem. To tackle these issues, we pres…

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