Split-GCN: Effective Interactive Annotation for Segmentation of Disconnected Instance

Annotating object boundaries by humans demands high costs. Recently, polygon-based annotation methods with human interaction have shown successful performance. However, given the connected vertex topology, these methods exhibit difficulty predicting the disconnected components in an object. This article introduces Split-GCN, a novel architecture based on the polygon approach and self-attention mechanism. By offering the direction information, Split-GCN enables the polygon's vertices to move more precisely to the object boundary. Our model successfully predicts disconnected components of an object by transforming the initial topology using the context exchange about the dependencies of vertices. Split-GCN demonstrates competitive performance with the state-of-the-art models on Cityscapes and even higher performance with the baseline models. On four cross-domain datasets, we confirm our model's generalization ability.