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Hierarchical Compositional Alignment for Zero-Shot Part-Level Segmentation.

Shan Yang¹, Shujie Ji¹, Zhendong Xiao¹

¹School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China.

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Summary

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This study introduces a novel method for robotic part segmentation, enhancing visual language models (VLMs) to accurately identify object components. The approach improves zero-shot part segmentation performance for complex robotic tasks.

Keywords:

multi-hierarchy feature multimodal alignment part segmentation visual language models

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Robotic fine-grained tasks require detailed object component understanding.
Visual Language Models (VLMs) excel at object recognition but struggle with part-level segmentation.
Existing VLMs face challenges in visual granularity, semantic hierarchy, and cross-modal bias for part segmentation.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a one-stage VLM-based method for accurate part segmentation.
To address the limitations of current VLMs in understanding object components for robotic applications.

Main Methods:

Developed a Hierarchy-Aware Feature Selection mechanism to enhance spatial and semantic precision.
Implemented a Multi-Hierarchy Feature Adapter to bridge object-to-part feature granularity.
Introduced a Hierarchical Multimodal Alignment Module to harmonize classification accuracy and mask integrity, mitigating cross-modal bias.

Main Results:

Achieved improved zero-shot part segmentation performance.
Obtained 25.86% on Pascal-Part and 13.09% on ADE20K-Part.
Demonstrated significant gains of +0.81% hIoU and +2.96% hIoU over baseline methods.

Conclusions:

The proposed method advances robotic visual perception capabilities.
This work has potential applications in intelligent manufacturing and intelligent service industries.
The approach effectively enhances VLM performance for detailed part-level understanding.