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Referring Image Segmentation via Recurrent Refinement Networks

CVPR 2018 · Detection and segmentation › CNN features · approach: Context modeling for semantic segmentation · 286 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add recurrent refinement with convolutional LSTM and multi-scale featuresReferring image segmentation with DeepLab ResNet-101 · UNC testAoverall IoU: 45.69 -> 57.26Helped
Add recurrent refinement with convolutional LSTM and multi-scale featuresReferring image segmentation with DeepLab ResNet-101 · ReferIt testoverall IoU: 58.73 -> 63.63Helped
Use C5, C4, and C3 features rather than C5 alone (ablation)Plain RRN · UNC valoverall IoU: 46.87 -> 49.74Helped
Add lower-level C2 and C1 features to the C5, C4, C3 pyramid (ablation)Plain RRN · UNC valoverall IoU: 49.74 -> 48.30Hurt
Replace the recurrent update with FPN-style element-wise addition (ablation)RRN with C5, C4, and C3 features · UNC valoverall IoU: 49.74 -> 39.31Hurt
Share update weights across feature levels using a vanilla RNN (ablation)Plain RRN with C5, C4, and C3 features · UNC valoverall IoU: 49.74 -> 48.86Hurt
Use convolutional LSTM gates rather than a vanilla RNN update (ablation)RRN with C5, C4, and C3 features · UNC valoverall IoU: 48.86 -> 52.48Helped
Use tanh rather than ReLU after convolutional LSTM updates (ablation)RRN with C5, C4, and C3 features · UNC valoverall IoU: 52.48 -> 54.26Helped
Use tanh rather than ReLU after vanilla RNN updates (ablation)RRN with C5, C4, and C3 features · UNC valoverall IoU: 48.86 -> 46.35Hurt
Use distinct pyramid features instead of repeating C5 at every step (ablation)Convolutional LSTM RRN · UNC valoverall IoU: 51.41 -> 54.26Helped
Use C5, C4, C3 feature order rather than inverse C3, C4, C5 order (ablation)Convolutional LSTM RRN with tanh · UNC valoverall IoU: 53.81 -> 54.26Helped
Add DenseCRF post-processing (ablation)RRN with convolutional LSTM · UNC+ testAoverall IoU: 41.68 -> 42.15Helped

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