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Apple researchers unveil TEAL for efficient low-budget semantic segmentation

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Researchers have developed TEAL, a novel active learning framework for semantic segmentation that operates efficiently within the token space of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Unlike previous methods that require extensive pixel labeling, TEAL uses a frozen ViT backbone and selects informative locations directly from its native token lattice. This approach, which employs a two-level MaxHerding strategy and uncertainty refinement, significantly reduces annotation needs, achieving up to 97% of fully supervised performance with as few as 10 labeled pixels per image on various datasets. AI

IMPACT This framework significantly reduces annotation costs for semantic segmentation tasks by leveraging ViT token geometry.

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Apple researchers unveil TEAL for efficient low-budget semantic segmentation

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  1. Apple Machine Learning Research TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Pixels to Tokens: Token Space Efficient Active Learning for Low-Budget Semantic Segmentation

    While foundation models and vision transformers (ViTs) have redefined visual representations, current active learning (AL) strategies for these backbones largely operate at the patch or region level, where annotation requirements remain high due to extensive pixel labeling. Exten…

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