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First RAG, Second SEG: A Training-Free Paradigm for Camouflaged Object Detection

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  • Haebom

Author

Wutao Liu, YiDan Wang, Pan Gao

Outline

This paper proposes RAG-SEG, a novel approach that does not require pretraining to solve the problem of camouflaged object detection (COD). RAG-SEG divides COD into two stages: the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) stage, which generates a coarse mask using a compact search database built through unsupervised clustering; and the SAM-based Segmentation (SEG) stage, which refines the coarse mask generated using the SAM. This method achieves comparable or superior performance to state-of-the-art methods while eliminating the need for training, and is computationally efficient enough to allow experiments on personal laptops.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present a new training-free paradigm that overcomes the high computational cost and large training data requirements of existing COD methods.
Effectively leverage existing powerful base models such as SAM to improve performance.
Fast and effective inference is possible by building an efficient search database based on unsupervised clustering.
High computational efficiency that allows experiments even on personal laptops.
Achieve competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Limitations:
Limitations specified in the appendix of the paper (see appendix for details).
(Assumed) It may depend on the performance of SAM. The limitations of SAM may also affect the performance of RAG-SEG.
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