RCFormer : Interactive Image Segmentation via Reconstructing Click Vision Transformers

Click-based interactive image segmentation intends to segment an object from the background under user click guidance. Recently, Vision Transformer has made significant strides in interactive image segmentation. However, the previous studies 1) overlook the importance of different clicks in terms of their contribution to the segmentation results; and 2) suffer from inconsistency across different feature scales in the multi-scale structure. In this paper, we propose a new interactive segmentation framework, named RCFormer, with two novel components: reconstruct click patch embedding (RCPE) for encoding the importance of clicks, and multi-scale adaptive fusion (MSAF) for the adaptive fusion of feature maps across different scales. RCPE enhances the effectiveness of click interactions by spatially distinguishing the importance of clicks. MSAF adaptively fuses useful spatial information and filters the redundant feature at multi-scales. The experiments on several benchmarks show that our proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance. Notably, our method achieves 2.31 NoC@90 on the Berkeley dataset, improving by 8.6% over the previous best results.