Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology ›› 2023, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (4): 810-825.DOI: 10.3778/j.issn.1673-9418.2209051

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Survey of Research on Instance Segmentation Methods

HUANG TAO, LI Hua, ZHOU Gui, LI Shaobo, WANG Yang   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
    2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
  • Online:2023-04-01 Published:2023-04-01

实例分割方法研究综述

黄涛,李华,周桂,李少波,王阳   

  1. 1. 贵州大学 省部共建公共大数据国家重点实验室,贵阳 550025
    2. 贵州大学 机械工程学院,贵阳 550025

Abstract: In recent years, with the continuous improvement of computing level, the research of instance segment-ation methods based on deep learning has made great breakthroughs. Image instance segmentation can distinguish different instances of the same class in images, which is an important research direction in the field of computer vision with broad research prospects, and has achieved great actual application value in scene comprehension, medical image analysis, machine vision, augmented reality, image compression, video monitoring, etc. Recently, instance segmentation methods have been updated more and more frequently, but there is a little literature to comprehensively and systematically analyze the research background related to instance segmentation. This paper  provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis and summary of the image instance segmentation methods based on deep learning. Firstly, this paper introduces the currently used common public datasets and evaluation indexes in instance segmentation, and analyzes the challenges of current datasets. Secondly, this paper respectively combs and summarizes the instance segmentation algorithms in the characteristics of two-stage segmentation methods and single-stage segmentation methods, elaborates their central ideas and design thoughts, and summarizes the advantages and shortcomings of the two types of methods. Thirdly, this paper evaluates the segmentation accuracy and speed of the models on a public dataset. Finally, this paper summarizes the current difficulties and challenges of instance segmentation, presents the solution ideas for facing the challenges, and makes a prospect for future research directions.

Key words: instance segmentation, deep learning, computer vision, image segmentation

摘要: 近年来,随着计算水平的不断提高,基于深度学习的实例分割方法的研究取得了巨大的突破。图像实例分割可以区分图像中同一类的不同实例,是计算机视觉领域的重要研究方向,具有十分广阔的研究前景,在场景理解、医学图像分析、机器视觉、增强现实、图像压缩和视频监控等方面取得了巨大的实际应用价值。近年来,实例分割方法的更新频率越来越高,但目前很少有文献全面系统地分析实例分割相关研究背景。对基于深度学习的图像实例分割方法进行了全面系统的分析与总结,首先,介绍目前实例分割中常用的公共数据集与评价指标,并对现有数据集面临的挑战进行了分析;其次,分别从两阶段分割方法与单阶段分割方法的特性上对实例分割算法进行梳理与总结,阐述其核心思想与设计思路,并对这两类方法的优势与不足进行总结;然后,在公共数据集上评估这些模型的分割精度和速度;最后,总结目前实例分割面临的困难与挑战,以及面对挑战的解决思路,并对未来的研究方向进行展望。

关键词: 实例分割, 深度学习, 计算机视觉, 图像分割