Dense Point-to-Mask Optimization with Reinforced Point Selection for Crowd Instance Segmentation

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Source paper: Dense Point-to-Mask Optimization with Reinforced Point Selection for Crowd Instance Segmentation

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01742v1

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Last proof check: 2026-04-03T20:50:40.820Z

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we first propose Dense Point-to-Mask Optimization (DPMO), which integrates SAM with the Nearest Neighbor Exclusive Circle (NNEC) constraint to generate dense instance segmentation from point annotations.
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Through extensive experiments, we achieve state-of-the-art crowd instance segmentation performance on ShanghaiTech, UCF-QNRF, JHU-CROWD++, and NWPU-Crowd datasets.
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However, directly applying currently popular large foundation models such as SAM does not yield ideal results in dense crowds.
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The masks obtained through segmentation help to improve the accuracy of region labels and resolve the correspondence between individual location coordinates and crowd density maps.
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we propose a Reinforced Point Selection (RPS) framework trained with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), which selects the best predicted point from a sampling of the initial point prediction.
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Furthermore, we design new loss functions supervised by masks that boost counting performance across different models.
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demonstrating the significant role of mask annotations in enhancing counting accuracy.
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Currently, point labels are common in crowd datasets, while region labels (e.g., boxes) are rare and inaccurate.
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