Cross Deformable Fusion with Image-Aware Text Prompts for Semantic Segmentation

Recent vision-language models are increasingly applied to dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, where textual input provides high-level semantic guidance. A common strategy is to use cross-attention mechanisms to integrate image and text features. However, such methods often suffer from limited spatial adaptability and substantial computational overhead. To resolve these issues, we propose an architecture composed of a Wavelet-Aware Context Construction (WACC) module and a Cross Deformable Fusion (CDF) module. WACC generates enriched textual representations by decomposing visual features into multiple frequency components via DiscreteWavelet Transform (DWT). It captures both global semantic layout and fine-grained structural cues. These informative text features are subsequently fused with image features using CDF, which employs deformable convolution to achieve spatially adaptive and content-aware alignment across modalities. This design enables more precise and efficient cross-modal interaction, leading to improved segmentation performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves an mIoU of 0.790, exceeding the baseline of 0.777 and confirming the effectiveness of the WACC and CDF modules.

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IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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2026-08-27
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https://doi.org/10.5573/ieiespc.2026.15.4.532
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Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
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Cross Deformable Fusion with Image-Aware Text Prompts for Semantic Segmentation

Jong‐Ok Kim, So-Yeon Jang
IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
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Cross Deformable Fusion with Image-Aware Text Prompts for Semantic Segmentation

Jong‐Ok Kim, So-Yeon Jang
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Abstract

Recent vision-language models are increasingly applied to dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, where textual input provides high-level semantic guidance. A common strategy is to use cross-attention mechanisms to integrate image and text features. However, such methods often suffer from limited spatial adaptability and substantial computational overhead. To resolve these issues, we propose an architecture composed of a Wavelet-Aware Context Construction (WACC) module and a Cross Deformable Fusion (CDF) module. WACC generates enriched textual representations by decomposing visual features into multiple frequency components via DiscreteWavelet Transform (DWT). It captures both global semantic layout and fine-grained structural cues. These informative text features are subsequently fused with image features using CDF, which employs deformable convolution to achieve spatially adaptive and content-aware alignment across modalities. This design enables more precise and efficient cross-modal interaction, leading to improved segmentation performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves an mIoU of 0.790, exceeding the baseline of 0.777 and confirming the effectiveness of the WACC and CDF modules.

IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and ComputingVol. 15(4)
Openalex Percentile: Top 12%
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
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